(Online article) – smart home: new technical possibilities only in the past few years the economy, in particular the area of electronics, a growing need for new, different, has advanced devices in the center of the development work. This turnaround is especially with the aging of society, so the demographic changes, to connect. Numbers make it clear: between now and the year 2025 the population will increase of about 65 from 20 to 28 percent. How much you had underestimated the need of also an age-appropriate technology in recent years, showed the development of mobile phones. The devices ‘ while becoming more powerful, they were however also getting smaller and smaller. The displays are difficult to see and for older people are to use the keyboards only randomly.

This trend also showed modern, home appliances, which are also delivered with complicated manuals. However the development has reached the range of age-appropriate housing and Ambient intelligence “or ambient assisted living” facilitate self-determined life care people. Moreover, in another term that wraps everything: smart home. What years ago still in science fiction movies Marvel or rather brought forth a smile, is now reality. On a clapping, the lighting is switched on, the desired indoor climate control sensors or entertainment devices can be connected via voice command. With today also emergency systems or even a medical Femuberwachung among these technical opportunities. Fn/lps