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Intelligent Integration Now, I call using the blender Intelligent Integration. You, like my wife, may think otherwise. Too bad. Cooking my eggs today at lunch, I thought of the Connected Home of tomorrow. The Connected Home of tomorrow will automatically learn and make decisions based upon your home- based lifestyle preferences. The ability to learn how you behave and make inference decisions that anticipate your needs will rely on complementary applications, including smart lighting, home control, and smart assistance. Intelligent Integration allows the family and the Smart Home to work together synergistically, improving quality of life, safety, comfort, and efficiency. Lighting The Connected Home of tomorrow is changing lighting. Traditionally, simple up/down or push-button ON/OFF switches were employed. With the Internet of Things (IoT) coming into the Smart Home, motion sensors can be integrated with a variety of lighting-control methods to provide solutions to suit virtually any lighting-control setting. Molex is working with leaders in the field of electronic technology to develop control gear for lighting products. One example from Molex is the Mini Lite-Trap Connector System (Figure 2). This system offers profile heights down to 2.65mm, easy wire removal, and low wire insertion and high wire retention forces for thin LED lighting-module applications. The Mini LiteTrap's ultra-thin profile prevents shadowing in LED lighting applications and saves about seventy percent of overall space when compared to the original Lite-Trap model. The connectors employ an easy-to-use latch that can be opened or closed without the use of a tool. The Lite-Trap's housing design enables the use of a wider insulation-length range than similar products. This, coupled with a dual-contact, wire-trap design, provides very stable wire seating and electrical contact assurance. Control & Assistance Smart Homes allow integrated control by connecting various things in the house to a command center, usually in the form of a control panel, tablet, or mobile device such as a smartphone. The ability and power to guide and manage various household systems from one device allows the homeowner to do several things simultaneously. For example, after a long day at the office, one can walk into the house, access the Connected Home's control center, and turn on the television, set the room temperature to what is most comfortable, and lock the doors. From there, you can start dinner while the television gets turned off and music is selected to play in the background. When the food is ready, the lights in the house can be adjusted automatically to set the desired ambience. Connected Home control will be made simpler by intelligence programmed into the system. If you regularly arrive home at the same time and have a certain routine, the Connected Home Figure 1: Scrambled Eggs Figure 2: Molex Lite-Trap and Mini Lite-Trap SMT Wire-to-Board Connector System, Push-Button Type (Source: Molex) 9 Molex Product Spotlight Lite-Trap Connector System s

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