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	Opening the door to Home Automation!
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Give your buyers another reason to get excited about your homes and/or communities!

The demand for homes to provide high-tech services has greatly outpaced the number of homes being built to handle those services.

Consider the following:

The Electronic House Expo promotes the $15 billion "connected home" industry.

Every tech category showed an increase in new homes built in 2005 vs. 2004, with the exception of structured wiring. Multi-room audio jumped to 15 percent penetration from 12 percent; home theater rose to 10.8 percent from 7.9 percent; lighting control nearly tripled from 2.4 percent to 7.1 percent; and home automation nearly quadrupled from 1.5 percent penetration to 5.8 percent.

The worldwide Managed Security Services market is expected to rise from $1.6 billion in 2002 to $5.9 billion in 2007 (270% increase) with managed security monitoring becoming the biggest piece at $2.5 billion.

By 2007, installed home networks in the U.S. & Canada will increase 204% to 28 million homes.

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Results of a recent survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA):

61% of homeowners were interested in a vacation setting for their lights that have a lived-in appearance while out of town
48% indicated interest in having lights automatically come on when they entered a room
49% were interested in home systems that could adjust their thermostats and water heaters based on the time of day
53% were interested in the ability to listen to music in any room from a single stereo
58% were interested in the ability to watch a video on any TV in the home from a single VCR/DVD player
44% were interested in home networks that allow the family to share documents, printers and internet connections from different computers in different rooms
56% were interested in a built-in, home security system for their home
40% would most trust a home automation specialist to install this type of system in their home compared to the next highest, computer network companies at only 10%

Make sure your homes and communities are proactively prepared to provide homeowners with the
services they demand. Check out the Summit Smart Homes Builder Partner Program!