print email comment close Geek-Free Home Automation URL: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1628489,00.asp Description: This 2004 review of home automation technologies and applications discusses limitations on functioning of systems. Covers X10 technology, which dates to the late 1970s and "sends power pulses from a switch over your household current to a device," and various wireless protocols. From PC Magazine. Author: Howard, Bill Publisher: Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. LII Database Information: Record 26172 created by Maria Brandt on 05/19/2008 Last modification on 06/04/2008 Published: 06/05/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26172