The future has arrived # ground breaking for #Smart Homes#

The future has arrived - ground breaking for "Smart Homes" Smart homes and smart living are now a reality! For JM, it's all about integrating modern IT, architecture and a healthy indoor environment to build better homes. Homes that provide security, comfort and quality of life. JM is first to launch this concept in Sweden, with the start of Vallgossen (apartment complex) on Kungsholmen in Stockholm and the completion of Hagaberg (detached homes) on Värmdö. Did I turn off the stove? Did I remember to lock the door? Who of us hasn't asked themselves these questions on the way to work in the morning? And who hasn't wondered what's left in the fridge when rushing by the store on the way home? These problems, and many others, have now been solved. JM combines the advantages of modern IT, architecture and a healthy indoor environment to provide security, comfort and quality of life in its "Smart Homes. Vallgossen on Kungsholmen in Stockholm and Hagaberg on Värmdö are the first "Smart Homes" in Sweden. Technology enhances the home New IT applications that make our everyday lives easier are emerging at an accelerating pace. Now the focus is on developing the home by utilising and linking together available technologies to meet the needs of people in their personal living environment. Technology provides valuable aids and attractive options for modern living, not least for the physically challenged. The motives are to facilitate everyday chores and enable people to live at home longer and more conveniently. In other words, modern technology offers advantages not only for the young and IT-savvy generation. A refrigerator with a built-in touch-screen computer/TV that controls and monitors the various systems in the home. The possibility of calling the refrigerator to read the dates on food packages or using the built- in computer to check traffic into town or the school lunch of the day. Need-based ventilation and thermostats that are regulated via your computer at work or automatically activated when you leave the house and lock the door. A sauna that can be preheated via telephone. Doors that can be locked and unlocked remotely from the comfort of your bed. Proximity-controlled lighting and fingerprint readers to lock and unlock doors. A self-propelled lawn mower. An automatic alarm to your cellular or office telephone when you've forgotten to turn off the stove or lock the door. This is not a vision of the future, it's reality. Cont'd on next page... 2. JM builds the first "Smart Homes" Kungsholmen in Stockholm is the future site of the Vallgossen tenant- owners co-operative with 126 apartments. Construction will begin in March and the first tenants are scheduled to move in during spring 2001. The apartments are divided into three categories, all of which come with a basic range of IT related services. Furthermore, 21 of the apartments will be equipped with Screenfridge, the "intelligent refrigerator ", to which a number of additional IT-based services will be connected. Two of the apartments will be specially adapted for physically challenged tenants in association with Vårddalsstiftelsen and the Foundation for Knowledge and Competence Development. In Hagaberg, on the island of Värmdö outside Stockholm, preconstruction planning has been started for the first of six approx. 200 sq.m. detached "Smart Homes". The first will be completed at the end of August and will serve as a model home until all six are ready to be occupied in spring/summer 2001. In these homes, technology contributes to functions such as Screenfridge - the "intelligent refrigerator", need-based ventilation, geothermal heating systems with a thermostat for an even temperature, proximity- activated indoor lighting, self-propelled lawn mowers, automatic watering systems, fingerprint-activated door locks and automatic alarms if a stove is left on or a window/door is left open. The architecture and environment also contribute to a spacious floor plan with features such as a laundry chute from the upper floor directly to the laundry room, a central vacuum system and a home entertainment centre. For additional information about Vallgossen, contact Johnny Kellner, JM AB, tel. +46-8-782 87 59 or Hagaberg; Stefan Möllerberg, JM AB, tel: +46- 8-782 89 46. Stockholm, 9 March 2000 JM AB Group Staff Communications Peggy Häggqvist, Information & Marketing, telephone: +46-8-782 87 83/87 00, mobile: +46-70/563 30 30, e-mail: peggy.haggqvist@jm.se ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/08/18/20030818BIT00300/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/08/18/20030818BIT00300/wkr0002.pdf