Check with your mobile phone and turn devices on or off with the push of a button. Check to see if children arrived home from school or what tripped the alarm at the back door while you're at work or traveling. Get rid of outdated photographs stuffed in a wallet. Use a hand-held computer or PDA to show friends any picture stored on your home network. Family members can be given access to family photographs.
Service providers can deliver customized, subscription-based content to the home.
Granting access to a specific device or information on the network does not allow access to other devices or information on the network. This kind of pilot is exactly what is necessary to increase consumer awareness of the benefits surrounding home control. We look forward to seeing the coverage of this and hope there are ongoing pilots of this type. That will accelerate market desire. During the pilot program, Home Director will operate the head-end server to deliver and automatically configure home networking applications and services over the Internet to ControlPoint residential gateways located in each home.