BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of U-Homes 2011, held in Hefei International Convention & Exhibition Center on November 27-29, achieved a consummation. The theme of this conference is “Smart Living with Automation". Over 40 honored guests presented brilliant speeches on invitation, among them are Mr. Rolf Adam, Director Energy & Smart Grid, Enterprise EMEA, Cisco Systems GmbH, Germany; Mr. Bradley R. Williams, Vice President, Industry Strategy Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit, Oracle, USA; Mr. Matthieu van Bilsen, Electronics Industry Leader, Growth Market Unit, IBM Corporation, China;Mr. Norbert H. Karl, Global Sales Manager, Siemens AG, Germany, etc..Dr. Xiaodan Mei gave the welcome speech at opening ceremony as the executive chairman of the conference.

This annual congress comprised 9 tracks following the ceremony, including " Smart Home Technology "; " Smart Home Network, Communication and Multimedia Entertainment"; " Smart Electronic Appliance, Utilities and Furniture"; " Smart Home Security Systems",” Smart Life Style and Health Telematics”, “Smart Home Standard, Marketing, and Business Development”, “Smart Environment Control and Home Energy Efficiency”…etc.

This annual conference, brought together nearly 80 specialists from 20 countries and areas, was devoted to the leading issues and popular topics and provide up-to-date information to all over the world. On the other hand, the meeting provided a brilliant information platform for domestic researchers to communicate with international experts and pushed forward the smart home technology development. According to the investigation after the conference, most of our participants expressed that they would like to attend U-Homes in the next year. Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions from all of the participants, we are quite confident in organizing U-Homes-2012 which would be better and more successful than U-Homes-2011. All of us are looking forward to meeting you again in 2012.

A Super-scale and Splendid Conference for Improving Your Living Style

For many years researchers have been working to create a smart home. Initially researchers have focused on developing a technical infrastructure and explored issues around user input. However, more recently people have begun exploring how technical augmentation of the home can improve the quality of people’s lives. In the home of the future, Home automation technology is becoming as synonymous with sustainability as it is with convenience. Incorporating smart home technology into a new or existing structure makes it easier to reduce energy consumption and the carbon footprint a home or business creates. People could enjoy save energy and green their home using home automation. The purpose of WCUH-2011 is to provide a world-class meeting place for information exchanges and trade fair for promoting Smart home novel technologies.

BIT World Congress (Dalian) Inc. aims to be the world intelligence exchange leader by offering specific information and human resource exchange services for academia and industries, as well as for professional and commercial societies from major industrial sectors. BIT World Congress (Dalian) Inc. integrate intelligence resources through well-organized events, courses and talent searches, establish collaborations and licensing through tech trade affairs and tech-tour, and visualize milestone achievements by reports, publications and e-newsletters upcoming events in 2011.