HCS_IV Home Automation System is a project to update his HCS_C home automation system. For the uninitiated, the original HCS was created by [Steve Ciarcia] of Byte and Circuit Cellar fame.

What's it like to build--and use--your own DIY home-automation system? GeekTech takes a look at a real automated home to find out.

Home automation is huge right now in consumer electronics, but despite the wide availability of products on the market, hackers and makers are still spinning up their own solutions.

Once you get used to the arrangement, configuring your home-automation system is a breeze. Your automated home needs three main components: a computer, software, and modular, automation-aware devices.

Scope Regardless of how extensive a home automation system you decide to build, you’ll want to make sure that the basic infrastructure you start out with can be expanded to control more elements ...

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Reflecting on my 30-year career as a project manager, I have come to realize process automation projects have unique challenges, which make them more difficult to execute than other types of projects.