electric or gas powered home appliances became viable in the 1900s
with the introduction of electric power distributionIn 1975, the first general purpose home automation network technology, X10, was developed. It is a communication protocol for electronic devices. It primarily uses electric power transmission wiring for signaling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts of digital data, and remains the most widely available.
By 2012, in the United States, 1.5 million home automation systems were installed