"The Jetsons" has long captured the public's imagination, driving expectations toward a set vision of the future inhabited by robot butlers. While advances in robotic technology has in some ways turned sci-fi into reality, the smart home is evolving along a different path - one that allow you to monitor and control your home environment from afar away with a few taps on a smart device.

Yet misconceptions about cost and complexity have hampered adoption - with only a third of respondents in a recent survey seeing smart home technology as a good value. One limiting factor is interoperability, says Tom Kerber, director of home controls and energy research at Parks Associates - with consumers expecting that the smart thermostat they buy from one company will be compatible with the intelligent AC they buy from another.

From the article "General Electric : Lighting the Way --- 3 Paths to Intelligent Environments."

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