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Here's an interesting video showing an award winning home automation system powered by Savant.  The Apple based set-up uses wall mounted iPads to control the home, including some fun elements like a virtual 'dinner bell' to call the kids to eat.  Also check out the front door CCTV image superimposed over the TV screen when someone rings the bell.  The audio seems to be out of sync but still well worth a watch...

Savant produce some amazing home automation systems, all based around Apple hardware.  They've just announced that RGB Communications will be the distributor of Savant products for the UK and Ireland...

Freedom is a new open source home automation project on Google code.  Written in Java it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac and Solaris and it's distributed under GPL2 license.  It supports X10 devices, Android, Arduino, BeagleBoard and more, and can be deployed on a network of cheap peer-to-peer hardware. It is scalable and provides automatic load balancing across nodes on the network.  If you are a professional developer or interested in do it yourself (DIY) building automation, Freedom can help to easily create your own building automation system without starting from scratch.  The team describe the system as a CMS for home automation...

Back in September Plex announced an agreement with LG to integrate their software into all their 'NetCast' equiped HDTV's and Blu-ray players from 2011.  While we wait for the launch at CES in January we asked the team to reveal some more details on the Plex / LG hook up now...

A very cool video tour of of the Savant Experience Centre in New York City with CEO and founder of Savant, Bob Madonna.  Savant has constructed this 8000 square foot living space to showcase their Apple based home automation system. The video includes demo's of lighting and AV control from the iPad and iPhone as well as touchscreen TVs and back projection screen.  There's even talk of 50 mac minis powering one installation!  Watch and drool...