" In the last century, wiring a house meant telephones and electricity and that was it. But now, in the 21st century, it's gotten much more complicated. Tom Morgan is here from----"

" Home Automation Inc. Home Automation Inc."

" 15th."

" And that's a lot. It's a concept, but what we're talking about is the ability for a house to control itself not only in terms of lights and in terms of phones, but also in terms of entertainment and security and everything else."

" Absolutely."

" How's that work?"

" What we do is just that we manufacture controllers, and these controllers allow you to take your lighting and your thermostats and your security as well as your telephone, even the internet today."

" Uh huh."

" You can allow all them to seamlessly work together."

" To work together."

" Yes."

" And so then what we are striving for is what I'm calling a connected home. I've heard that term [unk]."

" Correct."

" And the connected home really means that all of those different technologies are put to work. Let's talk for example in terms of security. What will this allow me to do here at bedtime?"

" Okay. When you go to bed what we'll be able to do is, is simply when you arm your security system----"

" Uh huh."

" is that we can do such things as turn off lights in the house----"

" Uh huh."

" as well as give you protection on your windows and doors."

" Right."

" Set back your thermostats that you're saving energy every single time that you go to bed----"

" Okay."

" And in this house, we're gonna do something fun. We're gonna make sure that the garage doors go down if they're open."

" If they're left open. But this is also the nerve center for the electronics that are coming into the house in terms of the world wide web, in terms of compressed signals or video and all of that, right?"

" Well actually, what we will be doing is for the world wide web, we actually have an interface that allows the lighting as well as the security to all tie into this one control board----"

" Uh huh."

" so that this control board gives you the actual control within the home."

" Now the control box I know gets installed, I've got it, right here in this closet, and Julienne, I think before we go any further, you wanna remove that, don't you?"

" Yes, sir."

" Alright. So that we can put it in a safe box and get it away from the dangers of construction."

" Yes, sir."

" I mean, that's kind of probably one of the more expensive components to the whole thing, right?-Yes."

" So I'll make sure that our contractor has that. And Tom, in terms of the actual wiring that's going on, I'm gonna talk with John White about that----"

" Uh huh."

" because they're the contractor on that."

" Okay."

" Thanks for coming out."

" Thank you, Bob."

" John, let's talk about the wires that go into this."

" Sure Bob."

" Well, here you've got a little array."

" Here we have an array of wires. It will be in---- be pulled in this house."

" What are they? I mean, what's this, for example?-This is a 2-gauge low-voltage wiring where will one contact through the security system."

" That's for the security system?"

" Correct."

" That's nothing really new. That's been around for a while."

" That's correct Bob."

" Okay."

" Here, we've got the 4-pair wire. This is also gonna be the controls for the keypads on various interfacing devices for the security panel as well as the home automation. "

" And what about like temperature controls and stuff?"

" That's correct."

" That's through this as well?"

" Yes."

" Okay. And then this?"

" Here, we've got 4 twisted pair high-speed data line----"

" Aha."

" Cat5."

" Cat5. Now this is the important stuff that you wanna put in new construction."

" That's right."

" Right. And then this one?"

" This is the Quad Shield RG6 Coaxial Cable, which we'll use for video applications as well as cable modems."

" Wow. Okay. And then, we got this."

" This is a 4-pair 16-gauge oxygen-free audio wiring so they can handle the moisture within the area."

" Fabulous. And this is for speakers."

" That's correct."

" For music. And the last one?"

" This is a 2-pair. This will be speakers as well."

" Let's go into the family room for example and see how it works. I know that this is gonna be the entertainment wall."

" Correct."

" And entertainment today means more than just watching a TV or using a VCR. There's all sorts of new technologies coming out. Movies are available on different kinds of disks."

" There will be digital surround sound."

" And things are gonna come to the house and compress signals and what do you do here?"

" Here, we're gonna have the coaxial cable, which once again, that would be the video application of it----"

" Uh huh."

" coming into the house either via satellite or local cable services."

" Uh huh."

" And here is, well, we'll have to run the Cat5 again. And this is for interactive television for satellite TV where you might have program ordering that are gonna go back out through the Cat5 Hi-Speed data line."

" Exactly. So you're communicating back and forth."

" Right."

" Alright. What about the security system in the house? Is that also 21st century or is that an older technology?"

" It's kind of---- it's evolved. There are some technologies in it right now that have been done for years where we have that recess magnetic contacts."

" Yeah, that's been around."

" That's been around a while."

" That basically goes through there and down and under the house, but this house is built on a crawl space, and given that it's a crawl space, can't anybody just go there and cut it?"

" Well, if they did, they'd actually activate the system. The relay would actually fire up the systems so that it would initiate the security system if the wire were to be [unk]."

" Exactly. Okay. Well, thanks John. I can't wait until it's all up and working."

" Sure."