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There are house-integrated things that are cool, but they rarely require integration. CO2 and humidity-controlled ventilation is really nice, as is whole-house sound systems. But why should they be connected to each other?

Maybe if you used some machine learning algorithms and made the house actually intelligent, so it could anticipate what you wanted. Other than that I don't really see the use.




A possible application would be to have different temperature regulation for occupied rooms (With some smart scheduling that anticipates occupancy).

So there's a reason to integrate the HVAC system with awareness sensors (which will probably be integrated with the sound system).

Not an interesting feature for an apartment or smaller house, but it's a reason to try to build the systems so that they can talk to each other.




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