Microsoft‘s Home Operating System
research is about pushing the home eco-system management to a broader
level. Of course, refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, air
conditioners, etceteras, are the most common home applications
that automate a good deal of manual work. But consider a time when you
are not home and you have a set of activities to perform, which can only
be achieved in your presence. Or may be a point where you need to
perform a step-by-step list of activities that require physical presence
just to tip-tap buttons and get the machines working (television,
set-top boxes, lamps and so on). This is where HomeOS steps in to organize the menial tasks into one place and conveniently control, like as easily from a smart phone.
A student demonstrating how to turn on and off lights via gestures with a Kinect (an excerpt from the white paper)
With HomeOS, you can add remote surveillance
for security and monitor the energy consumption at your home. All and
more of these capabilities will be available and setup through the
HomeStore gateway installed on the user’s computer. The user can
accordingly add more functionalities to the home system from the
HomeStore. According a video shared by one of the contributors of this
research, the add-on like functionalities in HomeOS are coded in C# language.
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