| Modernization of Homes | | | | technology. Already, zigbee is gaining immense |
| One of the other reasons ZigBee is starting to | | | | popularity. Home security should be important to |
| get attention is that it will make wireless home | | | | everyone whether you live in a house or an |
| automation cheaper and more practical not only in | | | | apartment. |
| new homes where it's relatively easy to install | | | | In 2004 the National Association of Home Builders |
| wires and cabling as the houses are being built, but | | | | conducted a survey and found the top |
| in older homes as well, where tearing open the | | | | technologies that home buyers were after. When |
| walls to install wiring is a the intrusive and | | | | it came to home automation 45% wanted |
| expensive ordeal. | | | | structured wiring. Structured wiring places |
| ZigBee will soon be seen in home automation and | | | | electrical, audio and video and data lines of a |
| home security systems. Late in 2004, "more than | | | | home on the same network. Home owners also |
| 100 companies including Honeywell International | | | | want greater control of their security energy, |
| Inc., Philips Electronics NV, Samsung Electronics Co. | | | | lighting and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning |
| and Motorola Inc., agreed to make new devices | | | | (HVAC) systems. |
| that can communicate using the zigbee | | | | |