AUTOMATED LIVING

43 - Wednesday, July 23,

NV Businessman makes home ‘smarter’

lable on the market.

1986 - North Shore News

IF ALL goes according to plan for North Vancouver's sith ‘smart’ appliances. said a The Canada Post: stamp com-

Brian Miltimore, smart set homeowners will be turning  fltunore. Paste Oe sweehene wee memonating the CBC SOth an-

: wt oo a , : ~ at Save-On-Foods, F250) Marine niversary wits designed by Signals

ymes into § ss right s . eee : ! * ae 7 ee

their he me into Smarthomes right smartly Drive in North Vancouver, at the alone with Cliff Garbutt of Ver.
Miltimare. president of Smar- Ive been waiting foe three A REAL BEER taste without the special promotional display. lipo Systems International Inc.

thomes of Vancouver Ine, is sell
Ing a system which connects vour
personal computer with ao Smiar-
thome control unit inked to
various sensers and an alarm cen
tre.

Rationalized ising vs dust a but.
ton-teuch away and the options
seems limiddess for automated living
ina Smarthome -~ i couch

potato’s wildest: dream ot a sate
and inert fifestsle come true,

sears fo vet the system in Canada.
Mee been marketing it for the past
moeath primarily to builders aad
developers,” said Miltimare

To date one home in West Vane
couser and 37 in Vancouver have
made the brave leap into the buture
to become Smarthomes ter an
average cost ot $2,000,

The Sinaithome voad as ta hase
fully automated homes available ta
the consumer by 1999, using anew
type of single cable wiring coupled

mind-altering copsequences? Only
in Australia you say? Pity.

But wit, Narth Vancouver tood
and beverage inporter/distributor
Fastcan Beverages Lid. has just in-
troduced for the first time
anywhere in Canadit, Swan Special
Light. a 69 per cont beer avaiktble
at supermarkets,

‘There's ate espanding market
for this type oof product with
oreameations like AMEADID and
strictes drinking and driving res.
lations. This beer is brewed asa
segular beer and Che alcohol is
vacuumed out at the end ot the
process, said) bisteun director

business

briefcase
by Michael Becker

The creative high-tech wiaardry

TODAY IS a bona fide red letter

The director swears sou came day for North Vancouver resident
taste Che difference berween this Ray Maho oand = partners David
Aussie fow-cal, Jow-alcohol brew Young and Gus Tsetsekus at
and the regular golden suds | Signals Design Group.

Jotn de Moor,

alforded by computer graphics is
highlighted for the first time ever
in Canada on the stamp,

Signals beat out a Montreal firm
for the high-profile project.

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NEW photo Tom Burley
NORTH SHORE resident Ray Mah, of the Signals Design Group, studies
a stamp issue which he hefped design. The stamp marks the 50th an-
niversary of the CBC,
Cred
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