Editing Home automation (section)

== History ==
Early home automation began with labor-saving machines. Self-contained electric or gas powered [[home appliances]] became viable in the 1900s with the introduction of [[electric power distribution]]<ref name="gerhart">{{Cite book|edition = 1|title = Home Automation & Wiring|url = https://archive.org/details/homeautomationwi0000gerh|publisher = McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics|date = 1999-03-31|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-07-024674-4|language = en|url-access = registration}}</ref> and led to the introduction of [[washing machine]]s (1904), [[water heating|water heaters]] (1889), [[refrigerator]]s (1913), [[sewing machine]]s, [[dishwasher]]s, and [[clothes dryer]]s.

In 1975, the first general purpose home automation network technology, [[X10 (industry standard)|X10]], was developed. It is a communication protocol for electronic devices. It primarily uses [[electric power transmission]] wiring for signalling and control, where the signals involve brief [[radio frequency]] bursts of [[digital data]], and remains the most widely available.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://hometoys.com/emagazine.php?url=/htinews/oct99/articles/rye/rye.htm|title = My Life at X10|date = October 1999|access-date = October 8, 2014|website = AV and Automation Industry eMagazine|last = Rye|first = Dave|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140930080338/http://hometoys.com/emagazine.php?url=%2Fhtinews%2Foct99%2Farticles%2Frye%2Frye.htm|archive-date = September 30, 2014}}</ref>

By 2012, in the United States, according to ABI Research, 1.5 million home automation systems were installed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abiresearch.com/press/15-million-home-automation-systems-installed-in-th/|title=1.5 Million Home Automation Systems Installed in the US This Year|website=ABI Research |date=November 19, 2012 |access-date=2016-11-22}}</ref>
Per research firm Statista<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statista.com/outlook/279/109/smart-home/united-states|title=Smart Home - United States {{!}} Statista Market Forecast|website=Statista|language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref> more than 45 million smart home devices will be installed in U.S. homes by the end of the year 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2018/09/24/the-impact-of-the-digital-revolution-on-the-smart-home-industry/|title=The Impact Of The Digital Revolution On The Smart Home Industry|last=Caccavale|first=Michael|website=Forbes |date=September 24, 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref> From 2018 to 2023, the number of U.S. homes equipped with smart devices grew at 10.2% per year to reach 63.43 million by 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statista.com/forecasts/887601/number-of-smart-homes-in-the-smart-home-segment-smart-appliances-in-the-united-states|title=Number of users of the smart home segment smart appliances in the United States from 2019 to 2028|website=Statista |language=en|date= Feb 24, 2025|access-date=2025-04-11}}</ref>

The word "''domotics''" is a contraction of the Latin word for a home (''[[domus]]'') and the word ''[[robotics]]''.<ref name="t3" /> The word "smart" in "smart home" refers to the system being aware of the state of its devices, which is done through the information and communication technologies (ICT) protocol and the Internet of Things (IoT).<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last1=Mandula|first1=K.|last2=Parupalli|first2=R.|last3=Murty|first3=C. A. S.|last4=Magesh|first4=E.|last5=Lunagariya|first5=R.|title=2015 International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT) |chapter=Mobile based home automation using Internet of Things(IoT) |date=December 2015|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7475301|pages=340–343|doi=10.1109/ICCICCT.2015.7475301|isbn=978-1-4673-9825-1 |s2cid=14737576 }}</ref>