Last summer, I wrote about an exciting initiative at Drexel University called the Drexel Smart House.
Inside, the 7, 500-square-foot home has every celebrity amenity imaginable, including smart house functions completely controllable by an iPad.
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Now, because of what these students are doing, the Smart House has been embraced by the community for the many benefits that it can provide.
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Visitors will get a glimpse into the home of the future in a Sharp smart house composed of proprietary see-through solar modules set up as a symbolic structure of the booth.
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Joan Weiner, a faculty advisor to the Smart House group since 2007 and a Philadelphian for more than 20 years, believes that projects like these have the potential to help the public accept new sustainable technologies.
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Cody Ray, President of the Drexel Smart House Group, who is currently completing his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, detailed the many projects that he and other students across disciplines have played a role in developing and executing.
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It will also control other smart appliances in the house, such as the TV.
The idea remains: if you can get them to save a little less and buy a smart phone, or a house, it keeps the narrative alive.
Still, he is making a smart and sharp start at cleaning house at BP.
The Palmer House Hilton, a smart hotel just off State Street, is enjoying its highest occupancy rate since it opened in 1924.
We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms.
Reporting back from the front, the House is Occupied by generally delightful, smart, publicly spirited people who are underpaid relative to the level of responsibility they shoulder.
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Experts say smart additions are skylights or windows, especially if the house tends to be dark inside.
In smart places such as Hillsborough and Atherton, the average house costs almost twice as much as in Beverly Hills.
My camcorder never leaves the house without a spare, since its "smart" batteries tend to claim they have many minutes of headroom left just seconds before they go dark.
The White House will stress what Mr. Plouffe called "smart" deficit reduction, meaning a plan that avoids cuts to administration priorities such as spending on education and infrastructure.
It seemed a smart move, giving Solo access to Sweetheart's broad, in-house network of trucks, distribution centers and warehouses serving mostly food-service customers.
But now, smart new government-built tower-blocks in red and grey are sprouting to house the homeless and give work to the unemployed.
It's Smart Aleck Milbank who prowls the Republican National Convention, trying to catch sight of House Majority Whip Tom Delay in fund-raising overdrive.
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The most menacing of these is that posed by archrival Samsung, whose windfall profits from sales of memory chips and huge internal demand for advanced logic chips for Samsung-brand electronics products like smart phones give it sizeable advantages in the form of both financial firepower and in-house vertical integration.
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With the new Smart Wi-Fi Routers, consumers will enjoy incredibly fast Wi-Fi speeds with exceptional in-house Wi-Fi coverage.
But you and I know that the most popular way "smart money" protects itself against inflation is buying a piece of beaten-down real estate like a house or condo.
The founder of the company, Mounir Shita, envisions a network of connected devices that use so-called smart software agents to track your friends, suggest food at a restaurant and even find someone to paint your house.
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