iPhone House Controlling

Integration and consolidation is the name of the game for all technology. It used to be the smaller the gadget the more chic, but now it is how many functions you can limit to just a few areas. It began with the monolithic home computer that began to allow you to watch movies and listen to music. As we began to port those functions to our portable devices and iPhones people saw the possibility for integrating functions only packed to the recesses of our imagination, or at least late night cable channels.

The iPhone has proven its ability to also act as a remote for limited features on your iTunes', but now outside developers are trying to break it out of the shell of tradition it has conventionally been trapped by. Home Automation, which is the integration of many electrical features in the home, may be the next step for bringing the iPhone into absolutely every area of daily life.

Home Automation can mean a number of different things, such as bringing together all the heating and cooling controls of your house or all the entertainment centers. Lighting is an area that is often difficult to conceive of for Home Automation as switches are found standard in most homes. X10 Home Automation has been developing technology for decades that can be used to basically control these power center in your home.

What the X10 Home Automation technology does is ask you to set a base controller, which as they state "can be any number of things including a simple plug-in device, a wireless remote or motion sensor and transceiver or even your PC." From there the information it sent to power lines to instruct the different functions on your electrical grid to do what your wish.

This sounds like a much more complicated process than it ends up being as you basically use different integrated product from X10 to create a network that is the size that you actually want. First you can purchase a device from X10 to connect directly to a light source, such as free standing lamp. There are a variety of these under the industry standard of X10 that transfer the information with radio frequency bursts.

From there you get an X10 controller to connect to your computer, from which you use associated server piece on your computer so as to actually control the device attached to the light from your computer.