ich "technology is embedded in just about every- thing," says Chris Shipley, executive producer of The DEMO Conferences, a Menlo Park, California-based organization that showcases budding technolo- gies. Shipley notes that networks will soon be "smart enough to know who you are and what sort of device you're connecting from-then they'll just scale the information appropriately for the device you're using." NUTS AND BITS-TELECOM HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, AND MORE 2.2 HOME AUTOMATION Integral to the Telecosmos is home automation and connectivity, which will allow people to gain greater control over their daily lives. Home automation and connectivity, however, do not just involve letting in a delivery person while away or turning on lights when on vacation. They are about managing the home ecosystem. With networking technologies and standards connecting the various areas of the home, the opportunity to extend these initiatives-and make the home "smarter"-is beginning to become a reality. "What is happening to the home now happened to the enterprise in the 1990s," explains Erik Michielsen, a senior analyst at ABI, a technology research firm located in Oyster Bay, New York. "Supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management were large initiatives that cut costs, enabled efficiencies, and drove revenue for service providers and cut customer costs. The home is not that different." Within the home enterprise, residential wireless networking, high-speed Internet services, and smarter connected intelligent devices are reshaping the home by connecting security, entertainment, HVAC, lighting, and appliances in new ways. These trends are pushing traditional home automation markets closer to those traditionally occupied by the PC and consumer electronics industries. In short, the trends are creating new guidelines for the digital home and the applications available to the consumer. From 2003 to 2008, ABI esti- mates the home automation controls market will grow from $1.5 billion to over $3.8