New Technology : I Lived in a Smart Home for 20 Years. Here’s What You Should Know.

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Smart homes are gaining in popularity these days, but you might be surprised to know that they have been around for a long time. MakeUseOf spoke with one of our regular readers and commenters, Ben Stutt, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA, about his experiences living in a smart home. Ben has been living in a 1100 sq. ft. smart home since the mid 1990s, which he rigged together in the mid 1980s. X10 is a wired communication protocol for home automation systems, which uses power lines to enable two devices to talk to each other. In 20 years of...

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