Smart Homes – Learn about Green Residential Design
Ann Arbor home owners are you curious… what is a smart home?
Watch this great video from Realtor TV for a peek inside one of America’s greenest homes – it is way cool and definitely worth 3 minutes of your time: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid13320769001?bctid=2649597001
A smart home combines high and low tech features to bring efficiencies into every facet of living. The video is shot from within the Smart Home exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. It highlights the latest innovations in reusable resources and clean technology.
Chicago’s smart home is actually a modular unit, built in seven modules in Decatur, Indiana and assembled on site. Fascinatingly enough, this home was created in just 8 weeks at the factory and took only one day to fully assemble.
Notable smart features:
- Designed to fit on a standard city lot
- 2,500 sqft but feels bigger due to lighting and stacking
- Incorporates many outdoor spaces
- Monitors energy use and water use in real time, owners know how much energy is produced from solar systems and consumed
- State of the art water catching system, “Recycled Raindrops”, used for garden irrigation
- Green roof modular tray system, protects lifespan of the roof, makes the home warm in winter, cool in summer – AND never needs to be watered!
- Aqua system (lives under the bathroom sink), uses filtered gray water from brushing teeth and shaving to flush the toilets.
- Portable Fireplace that burns ethanol – no chimney, heat stays in the house
This is a fascinating story, watch the video to take a look at the next front in American living.
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April 20th, 2009 at 7:57 PM
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