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'Intelligent Home'

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The Chamber took up the invitation from the Department of Computing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on June 19 to view cutting-edge technologies being developed by students in their quest to design an "Intelligent Home."

Dr Keith Chan, Head of the Department of Computing, explained to the 43 members who joined the tour that the concept of the Intelligent Home was not only to automate everyday chores at home, but also to make the home a safer place to live and to protect it from intruders.

Unlike the latest technologies developed by companies' R&D labs, one of the university's criteria for developing products was that they be affordable, explained Wong Mo-han (above, right), the Deputy Director of the Department of Computing. As an example, she demonstrated the palm recognition access system which recognises a palm print within 1.5 second, and costs a fraction of the price of similar systems currently on the market.

Members also saw firsthand other technologies that the students were working on, which included Virtual Programming Lab for Online Distance Learning, Motion Retargeting from Motion Captured Data, and Severe Weather Forecasting, among others.

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