A Service-Oriented Architected House
When most of us think of architecting a house, we imagine room shapes, door
openings and roof lines. Peter Rhys Jenkins thinks of software -- in this case,
SOA software.
At IBM's recent SHARE conference, Jenkins, an IBM employee, described
his SOA-based house -- a house three years in the making. This fully automated,
12,000 square-foot abode includes a system that detects (and eliminates with
extreme prejudice) mice in the barn and -- through RFID tags stuck in family
members' shoes -- makes sure that only friendlies are let into the house.
To me, this is like a car with too many options. Instead of driving, you spend
all your time and money fixing seat warmers, power windows, air conditioning
and your kids' stupid DVD players!<
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Posted by Doug Barney on August 20, 2007