Or transmit it to an online shopping service and have them deliver to you. In the same room, a networked Bosch dishwasher talks to headquarters and can call for help if it notices a malfunction or maintenance problem. Additionally, there's an automatic coffee maker whose functions can upgrade themselves over the Internet. The home also showcases innovative new wireless and interactive television components to enhance the connected home. The model residence shows how dozens of different consumer appliances, gadgets, and services can interact on a smart home network and beyond, and illustrates how service-driven networks will change the lives of tomorrow's consumers.
Home exploits the power of outside networks to showcase a wide array of new kinds of services.
It brings incredible new services to the consumer , and it creates a whole new marketplace for service providers and manufacturers. Broadband rollout is accelerating as we speak with DSL, Cable, Satellite and even POTS technologies competing for market share. Many choices in wired and wireless home networking are already available. Set-top boxes and modems are being enabled with Java technology, and we are showing working implementations of home gateway servers running Jini technology . And GTE is deploying consumer trials in 2000.