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The Leak Notification Program is a new initiative that allows New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to proactively alert customers to potential water leaks on their property. The program gives customers the opportunity to sign up online to receive email notifications when their water use increases significantly over a period of several days, enabling homeowners to quickly respond to potential leaks and fix them before they become a serious billing problem.

The Hogeweyk (part of Hogewey care centre. A weyk or wijk being a group of houses, similar to a village) is a specially designed village with 23 houses for 152 dementia-suffering seniors. The elderly all need nursing home facilities and live in houses differentiated by lifestyle. Hogeweyk offers 7 different lifestyles: Goois (upper class), homey, Christian, artisan, Indonesian and cultural. The residents manage their own households together with a constant team of staff members. Washing, cooking and so on is done every day in all of the houses.

Synthesize knowledge and analyze large, complex care-related data sets to identify those at risk. Manage information that spans multiple stakeholders, including wellness, health and social care organizations. Deliver proactive, individualized care that eliminates unnecessary and preventable inpatient hospital admissions and readmissions. Highlight the most effective evidence-based care protocols for greater economic value and reduced waste. Collaborate over boundaries, including organizational, bureaucratic and technological, to enable individual and population health.

The Wi-Fi enabled WeMo Insight Switch connects your home appliances and electronic devices to your Wi-Fi network, allowing you to turn devices on or off, program customized notifications and change device status from anywhere. WeMo Insight Switch can monitor your electronics and will send information about the device's energy usage directly to your Smartphone or tablet. Perfect to pair with space heaters, wall A/C units, TVs, washers, dryers, fans, lights and more.

Leviton's Built-In OmniTouch Touchscreen is an impressive high resolution capacitive touch device. Utilize this dedicated interface to control your security system, lighting, temperatures, audio and much more. View IP surveillance cameras and unlock wireless door locks. Features 7" viewable screen and is simple to install.

Leviton's Omni automation system is the brain of your automated home and business, coordinating security, energy, and entertainment. The OmniPro II, Omni IIe, and Omni LTe meet virtually all size, sophistication, and pricing requirements, providing a reliable backbone from townhouses to warehouses. Lights, temperatures, security, access control, and audio/video can be automated by time, date, day of week, as well as motion detection or door/window openings. Remote control from a smartphone or tablet is available anywhere in the world with zero subscription fees.

The smart home, an initiative of BeNext, aims to achieve automated and sustainable living with domotics. BeNext has created the first intelligent home of Amsterdam, with the demohouse at Herengracht. In the Demohouse more than 60 domotics products control the house in the areas of Climate, Control, Energy, Safety and Security. With the heart of the system, the gateway, all electrical appliances can be controlled and the temperature in every room can be regulated. The Demohouse is fully protected, from security cameras to automatic door locks.

A wide range of products are constantly being developed to help us live ‘smarter’. In order to help consumers understand how these products work, IKEA in Amsterdam Zuidoost is working on a concept for a demonstration house. This house will be packed with smart products developed by IKEA, and potentially by other parties such as Liander and Waternet. These smart products are primarily focused on the fields of water, energy and waste. The demonstration house will introduce the smart products to the approximate 3,000,000 people who visit IKEA every year.

The Sargfabrik is much more than a housing model— it’s a way of life. Along with the luxurious roof garden, a range of common areas creates a landscape of communication and pleasure, with a cultural house, restaurant, kindergarten, and twenty-four-hour bathhouse that is also publically accessible. Parking spaces for cars were kept to a minimum in order to make room for the swimming area, and only by designating the building a “residence hall” could public funding be secured.

The Amsterdam district of Zuidoost (Southeast) is 22 km2 and is home to approximately 80,000 residents. Zuidoost is a remarkably green neighbourhood with the massive lake Gaasperplas and its surrounding forest as its centrepiece. There are also many other parks, sport parks, private garden allotments and a golf course. The urban core is centred on the Ajax ArenA football stadium, Amsterdam Poort and the newly-built Bijlmer train station which together has developed into a major shopping and entertainment zone complete with cinemas and concert halls.