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September 10, 2013 •
Green Building, slider, Smart Homes, Solar Panels •
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Editor’s note: This is the second article in the five-part 360Value Green Building Article Series. The goal of the series is to inform insurance professionals about the growing green building trend and how it may affect insurers in the future. The 360Value team has a comprehensive understanding of green building techniques and is actively studying...
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September 10, 2013 •
Green Building, Net Zero Homes, Smart Homes, Solar Panels, Sustainable Homes •
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Net-zero homes need clear labeling to attract homebuyers and an instruction manual for when they are sold, according to NIST. By Candace Pearson Though this looks like a typical suburban home, it is actually a net-zero test home in which robots simulate the...
September 10, 2013 •
Innovative Homes, Smart Homes •
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By Chris Carbone and Kristin Nauth Two foresight specialists describe how tomorrow’s integrated, networked, and aware home systems may change your family life. In the last decade, a range of digital technologies and services have hit the market and moved...
September 10, 2013 •
Smart Homes •
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You are ready and packed to leave on a holiday trip and for the first time, you agreed that your teenage son can stay home alone. The control freak in you is already making long lists of daily and weekly tasks and to-do’s to keep the pets and plants alive,...
September 10, 2013 •
Green Building, Net Zero Homes, Smart Homes, Sustainable Homes •
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by Gene Wang The grid has gotten smarter over the last few years, but it has not captured the imagination of mainstream consumers. Why? It’s because most people can’t figure out how the smart grid improves their daily lives. For example, smart...
September 10, 2013 •
Net Zero Homes, Smart Homes •
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Michael Brown @brownieshq Aug 1, 2013 9:00 AM print The problem with the proverbial Home of the Future is that it’s usually just that: A dreamy concept that we’ll all live in some day, but that’s just too expensive and, well, conceptual to be practical...
September 10, 2013 •
Innovative Homes, Smart Homes •
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In our ever-changing hi-technology world it seems like everyone is turning to “smart” technology. From the phone and tablet you carry in your pocket to controlling your home’s heating and air conditioning while away on vacation on a tropical beach,...
September 9, 2013 •
Innovative Homes, Smart Homes •
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Author: Curtis Silver Published: August 06, 2013 at 7:45 am Cyber-crime has always been a subject of much paranoia and fear in the digital age. From hacking emails to stealing entire identities to breaking into government systems, cyber-crime has become a...
