Home users as a Facility Managers How is automation helping?

In the current economic setting companies are required to the operation of their facilities therefore making a growing use of technology supported Facilities Management and Energy Management activities. The same holds true for home owners. In fact we assist to an increasing adoption of Building Management technologies, most notably Energy Management by households. Therefore, it is expectable that other aspects of facilities management will end up being adapted to homes in the near future. In this paper we briefly discuss into what extend FM activities can be applied to homes and what is the technological support that can be found for them.