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 From turning on lighting in your home from your smart phone no matter whether you're sitting in the living room or across town in your office, to remotely unlocking   DIY Play structure  the front door if the kids forget their key, there is no limit to how you can simplify your home life.

The days of paying for an expensive home wiring system with a control system programmed by an IT expert are gone. Now you can easily set up a basic controller system, plug in a few wireless wall plugs and plug your light fixtures or other appliances and in minutes have your new home automation system up and running. In the following paragraphs I am going to outline one of the simplest DIY smart house automation systems you can install in your own home.

While working on a DIY home improvement project to automate my own home I discovered the INSTEON home automation system. I was looking for a system to upgrade my eighty year old home. What I learned was that there were already a number of whole house automation systems available that used single band technology. These options included Wi-Fi, RF, Bluetooth, or smartwire. In each of these systems there are things that can go wrong, roadblocks that disrupt the signal. What I learned about INSTEON was that it is the only complete home automation system that uses Dual-Band technology.

With Dual-Band technology, INSTEON uses a combination of RF or radio frequency signal and it creates a second band by sending a signal through your homes existing home wiring system. This combined dual-band technology works to eliminate roadblocks giving you a more reliable home automation experience. So from a DIY standpoint you can install a complete home automation and home security system without any complicated wiring system or computer programing skills. The most complicated part of a basic smart house system will be to replace or install a few wall mount light switches in order to automate control of the lighting on those switches.