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Image via Wikipedia I had an epiphany on the way home from running errands. (I’m sure I’m not the only one to think of this but I haven’t heard of any application that works this way.) We picked up a take-n-bake pizza and Jen wished we could warm up the oven remotely.

One of the prohibiting cost, as I understand it, is that you have to build one box to manager all of your home devicices, and then an app to remotely manage that box. A lot of companies are working on how to crack the whole Smart Home thing. Once it’s solved it wouldn’t be hard to imagine a time where I could sink my mobile phone to my house and start my oven with an app on my phone.

Then the thought struck me that it would be easier and more widely adopted to SMS eneble your appliances. Let your phone act as that box and SMS to act as the network.

I could just send an SMS to my oven that recognizes my phone number and a simple command like: “450″. If I get delayed and am not going to make it when I planned a simple, “off” would turn it off or “pause 20m” would pause the oven for 20 minutes.

You could really apply this to any appliance/function in your house.

“DVR ch7 7-8″ would record channel 7 from the next 7:00 to 8:00 am or pm.
“Lights on” would turn on a predetermined set of lights like the main downstairs and outside lights.

I could go on but an open standards like this would do more to drive Smart Home adoption than any proprietary platform and would enable a wider economic base of people access to it.

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