Integrating augmented reality with home systems

Augmented Reality systems overlay computer generated information onto a user’s natural senses. Where this additional information is visual, the information is overlaid on the user’s natural visual field of view through a head mounted (or “head-up”) display device. Integrated Home Systems provides a network that links every electrical device in the home which provides to a user both control and data transparency across the network. This paper discusses the integration of AR techniques with a real world infrastructure and demonstrates this through the integration of an visual AR prototype with an existing Home Systems technology test rig. The integration of these two technologies provides the basis of a specialised information/control device that allows the control and diagnostics of Home Systems devices from the basic action of looking at them.