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send a warning to your phone. It will also there is a short in the electrical wiring, your
give you suggestions on a healthier diet smart home will detect it and provide you
and how to sleep better. Smart toilets will with the relevant information. This way,
be keeping constant track of your health you will be able to fix the problem before
as well. They can warn you early on if your home becomes flooded or catches fire.
there is something abnormal or if you
have a critical illness, such as cancer, and This smart technology is not a fantasy.
potentially save your life. Many of these new innovations are already
available and being used in some homes. In
No More Disasters this sense, the home of tomorrow is already
Smart homes will be able to prevent the home of today. Nevertheless, it will
serious damage from accidents. For take some years before most new homes
example, if a water pipe starts leaking, or if begin to use this new technology.

3 Read the text again and fill in the table below.

In the future, what will smart homes do about …?

doors dinners

TVs, computers beds

water pipes, toilets
electrical wires

lights, favourite music, or TV programmes

4 Complete the summary using the correct forms of the words from the text.

A smart home is one that i computers into the structure of the building itself. In this
way, many of the things that we now do ourselves will become a . For example, the
smart home could control the air conditioning and lights so that you would no longer have to
turn s on and off, making your home more energy-e . The smart home
could also m itself to make sure that everything is working as it should, and send
you w if there is a problem. Such smart homes could even be programmed to
d your health problems, and then give you r advice as to the food you
should eat or if you should see a doctor. So, in a sense, smart homes will lead us to living smarter
lives.

5 Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
1 In what way is the home of tomorrow already the home of today?

2 What might be some of the disadvantages of smart homes?

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