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An Overview of the Home's Structured Wiring System

Bob and Tim Woods from the Internet Home Alliance meet in the kitchen. Tim details the Home Director structured wiring installation in every room, allowing the homeowner to stay connected to both the Internet and in-home control functions throughout the house. On the Panasonic flat screen LCD TV you can watch normal cable television or monitor outside security cameras. All the structured wiring is connected to the outside world thought a Panasonic Gateway. Woods also demonstrates a wireless Web tablet on which the homeowner can control home audio, heating & cooling, lighting, security, and telephones.
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An Overview of the Home's Structured Wiring System

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" I've already doing what have you got forest well we've got a master control whole home control here in my hand basically controls everything in the house. As you know we had home director come and do structured wiring throughout the whole house that we got cat five and RJ. Running literally in every single room of the house. That's tied in with our entertainment our cameras on the -- you've got. Basically this is our Panasonic flat screen LCD so. This is like basically Panasonic TV correct flat screen liquid crystal display up and as far as you got a cable hook up to a you can see anything right now we're we're just looking at the exterior through the security cameras but you can pick up any cable show right absolutely. Now all that's. Orchard wiring is hooked in through like to the outside world and Panasonic gateway and that basically distributes everything to the rest of the house through routers. So right now we can look at this web tablet and we've got basically home audio whole home audio heating cooling lighting security telephones. All of that controlled from this one -- wirelessly yes."

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