The project integrates a mobile assistive robot (Hector) that can work collaboratively with a smart home and remote control center to better support older people living at home.
There is no doubt that mobile is moving beyond mobile phones, smartphones and tablets into mHealth devices, home automation and remote monitoring, and other markets.
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Uses range from setting up retail kiosks, seasonal storefronts, temporary offices, lottery terminals and wireline backup to remote monitoring and home healthcare.
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Startups nurtured in the Verizon family include a company providing robots for home health monitoring and a company connecting all the devices in a home for remote access and control.
The Pyramid acts as a home base and remote control unit for the Orbit and features a custom-designed, reprogrammable micro-controller.
Washburn is turning the story to a book about golf in China, having followed Zhou from the courses to his wedding and even his remote home village.
The gateway allows cable operators to offer their subscribers new features and services such as streaming of live linear television to IP connected devices, whole-home DVR, and a remote user interface on an RDK-compliant platform.
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Closer to home, a highly educated hedge fund manager starts tutoring his nieces and nephews with a home-made remote Web blackboard.
In addition to the Iris Hub, this kit includes a thermostat which makes programming simple with an intuitive user interface and remote control of home settings through the Iris app.
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Outside of years of practice, is there an innate ability in some of us to just pick up a smartphone, laptop, tablet or home theater remote and know how to drive because we know what kind of processors and operating systems are between us and what needs to be done?
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It becomes a technical challenge, involving latency, compression and robustness, to shift the relationship from home PC and handset to always-on remote server and handset.
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Soon, the tablet and smartphone will become a central remote for all things digital inside and outside the home.
Let's face it, not everyone can afford to go out and blow hundreds of dollars on a swank universal touchscreen remote or home automation system in order to simplify their life, and for those who are forced to juggle the half-dozen or so remotes required to bring their AV system to life, this here invention is for you.
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The rx3100 - They're dubbing the rx3100 a "Mobile Media Companion", and it comes with 64MB of RAM, built-in 802.11b WiFi and Bluetooth, a 3.5-inch LCD screen, an SD expansion card slot, and software for wirelessly browsing your music, photo, and video collection from anywhere in your home and so you can use the rx3100 as a universal remote control.
He said they may include the ability to update antivirus programs on every PC with single click, to add guest users to the HAN, to print a file from home at a remote location, and the ability to actually fix the network from a remote location.
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But when I got home, I opened up the remote and saw all those sturdy diodes, capacitors, and transistors with their mysterious colored bands, combinations of which once spoke a subtle language to engineers long ago retired or dead.
Options will include a video package, which includes the ability to view live video of the outside or inside of the subscribers home, and an energy package, which allows remote control of appliances like lights, heating and air conditioning.
Like most home protection systems, Scout offers remote control and monitoring via computer or mobile device, but the big draw here is its aesthetically pleasing equipment and simplified installation process.
It's about a 19th-century Italian love triangle between a handsome young soldier, his passionate, married mistress back home, and an obsessed, demanding invalid at his remote regimental posting who tries to turn his distaste for her into love.
He added that he enjoys ultralight aircraft and remote-controlled airplanes, had equipment in his home used for three motor-powered paragliders and had wanted to teach his Chechen friends how to fly them.
The app also includes additional features like an enhanced guide, the ability to use the Kindle Fire as a remote control for conventional televisions in the home and also to manage DVR recordings and schedule new recordings, right from the device.
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Further afield, the more remote eastern Usambaras are home to the lushly vegetated and excellently protected Amani Nature Reserve.
The Galaxy Note 10.1 features Samsung Smart Remote, which transforms the device into a universal remote control that can control an entire home entertainment system and even recommend programs.
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The DoD's sensor funding can be expected to bear fruit for the medical services industry, as advanced remote physiological sensing and monitoring could have an enormous impact on home monitoring in the nursing industry.
Samsung Smart Remote, powered by Peel, utilizes the built-in IR emitter in the GALAXY Note 10.1 to transform the device into a sophisticated universal remote control that can control an entire home entertainment system and even recommend programs.
Additionally, the routers offer new tools for home network monitoring and control, and new mobile apps for anytime, anywhere remote access of files, photos, videos and music.
From what we can tell, it's basically a PC-based DVR (running on XP Home, rather than Media Center) that ships with a base unit and two remote boxes that can be connected via Ethernet.
It's a good bet, however, that the smartphone (or tablet) will continue to replace "unnecessary" interfaces and buttons cluttering up your home, whether that's through a WiFi-connected TV remote, on-screen home energy management, shopping list reminders through a hooked-up refrigerator or possibly even a dishwasher with remote activation.
LG's widely acclaimed motion and wheel controlled Magic Remote allows easier navigation of content on LG's user-friendly Home Dashboard.
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When loaded on a tablet or smartphone, TV Discovery can act as a universal remote control, slinging commands to cable and satellite boxes, Blu-Ray players, home stereos and more.
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