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What buyers should look in a future-ready e-homes
It should have structured cabling:
The telecommunications cabling in a modern home supports a large and growing number of applications, including voice telephony, data networking, personal computers, printers, Internet access, and other applications, entertainment equipment like TV, home theater, whole-house audio, and home automation equipment, lighting control and security systems. For ease and convenience it is necessary that the new home should have single cabling infrastructure with CAT 5 or CAT 6 cables.

Structured cabling Vs Wi-Fi

Though sophisticated Wi-Fi equipments are there in the market, yet looking in to the promising future of IPTV etc. it becomes essential to go for high bandwidth solution. Entertainment applications, such as streaming video, typically use much more bandwidth than the voice and data applications. Therefore, a modern residence often requires more bandwidth than a typical office. In an office, a Fast Ethernet network (100Base-T) is often adequate. In a residence, however, transmitting uncompressed high-definition video streams can result in bandwidth use in excess of 1 Gbit/sec. So, the residence can require 10 times as much data throughput as is needed in a typical office environment.
It is evident that three transmission media should be used in modern residential cabling: unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable, coaxial cable, and wireless networks, such as Wi-Fi.

Other Cablings

UTP is the workhorse medium for residential cabling. It is economical to install and supports all of the various types of applications. Coaxial cable has a very high bandwidth and is normally used for cable TV and related equipment, such as a cable modem. Its use, however, is normally confined to the TV and other video signals. Homes should be wired with good quality Series 6 coaxial cable to locations where it is likely that a TV will be installed.

Wireless Networks

Wireless networks, such as Wi-Fi, are an excellent addition to the residential network infrastructure. They have two outstanding advantages-mobility and ease of use. They allow undeterred operation within the home, and even around the yard, and do not require crawling behind the furniture and tracing through a bundle of cords to install or move a piece of equipment.

The advantages of wireless networks are tempered by such drawbacks as lower bandwidth, shorter range, higher bit-error rate, and longer transmission delay than wired networks. Wireless networks commonly operate at speeds from 11 to 54 Mbits/sec, although higher-speed varieties are under development. A typical range for a Wi-Fi network is 20 to 30 meters, although it can be less in some cases. Compare this with 1 Gbit/sec Ethernet over 100 meters, which is supported by Category 5e UTP, or 10 Gbit/sec Ethernet over 55 meters of Category 6 UTP.

Wireless networks are more prone to interference and, unlike wired networks, cannot supply power to networked equipment. There are also privacy and security issues with wireless networks. While these can be addressed (e.g., by enabling the Wired Equivalency Privacy feature that comes with every Wi-Fi device), doing so impacts the devices’ ease of setup and usage.
Wireless networks are ideal for applications (such as reading e-mail on a laptop) that are small and movable and do not require very high bandwidth. But they are not well suited for applications like a large-screen, high-definition monitor. As a general rule of thumb, if it is portable and runs on batteries, wireless is a good option. Otherwise, wire it.

Further, home automation products run on a combination of above media. With obvious future of automated homes, it is essential that buyers should get the structured cabling done while the house is in construction phase. CEO of Adrett Homes Ltd. ( www.adretthomes.com ), Mr. Surender Kumar stressed during meetings with architects & builders, that the trend of smart or e-homes has matured in US & Europe is surely making inroads in INDIA also, and we should built true future ready homes.

Home automation products are now available at affordable prices in INDIA, backed by long term warranties and after sales services. HAI (www.adretthomes.com), Centralite Systems (www.centralite.com ), RTI Corp (www.rticorp.com) are flagship companies committed to make available in INDIA, various home automation technologies, at an affordable prices. Typically an HAI & Centralite integrated home for basic products would cost Rs. 45,000/- onwards.
In case of any clarification or Press related enquiries, Please contact Mr. Hemant Sharma, V.P. at Adrett Homes Ltd. 011-26510103 or hmudgil@adretthomes.com