Living Tomorrow

Living Tomorrow is a research oriented company with projects in the city of Brussels and formally also in Amsterdam. It focuses on technical innovations we can expect to find in our house in the near future.

History

It all began with Living Tomorrow 20 years ago – a unique innovation project that visualises the future. Since then, Living Tomorrow, together with 400+ companies worldwide, has helped to introduce numerous and often radically innovative concepts to the consumers of tomorrow, such as the smart street, drone delivery, intelligent mirrors and many others. With more than three million visitors, it represents a gigantic crowd-driven observation centre of tomorrow's customers and markets. This provides continuous practical insight and lasting experience of the future. It has also created a unique network of companies willing to help each other advance in innovation through Living Tomorrow.

The Living Tomorrow team exists of 50 people and the company is managed by Frank Belien and Joachim De Vos. The godmother of the project is Celie Dehaene-Verbeke, the wife of former prime-minister Jean-Luc Dehaene.

Living Tomorrow I, II and Amsterdam

Living Tomorrow opened its first 'House of the Future' in 1995, which immediately attracted attention. After a second successful project in Belgium, in which the concept evolved into the 'House and Office of the Future', the first international complex was opened in Amsterdam in 2003. This grand opening attracted a lot of media attention. In January 2007 Living Tomorrow opened a new project 'House, Office and Creative Industries of the Future' in Brussels which expand the original home and office concepts to include extra aspects of a person's lifestyle. The Amsterdam house was closed in June of 2008, as planned 5 years after the inauguration.

Carehome of the Future

The next project aimed at the healthcare sector. A brand-new 27.000 m2 complex, located at Heusden-Zolder (LIM,B) incorporates a future concept of a carehome, an assisted living house and a pharmacy of the future. Over 80 companies are involved in the project, piloting and demonstrating new care-concepts to professionals and large public.

Living Tomorrow (2020)

The most recent project of Living Tomorrow started early 2013 in Brussels with an event hosted by Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo and the CEO's of main partner companies and organisations. The innovation platform is integrated partly in the existing infrastructure and extends the demonstrations to new pilots as the street of the future, the store of the future, the smart grid room of the future. End 2014 a new subproject was launched, The Bistronomy. This project has the mission to become a main pilot and education site for horeca concepts for the future. In the restaurant you are welcomed by a robot and you can find new concept as a bio cultivator in the restaurant ( bio herbs), a table presenting information about the wine when you place the RFID tagged bottle on it.

Sources

Home automation

System

Elements

Interconnection
type

Wired	Cable (xDSL) Optical fiber Powerline PLCBUS Universal powerline bus (UPB) X10

Wireless	Radio frequency Bluetooth Bluetooth low energy DECT EnOcean GPRS MyriaNed ONE-NET UMTS Wi-Fi ZigBee Z-Wave Infrared (Consumer IR)

Both	Insteon KNX

Network
technologies,
by function

Device interconnection	Bluetooth Bluetooth low energy FireWire IrDA USB ZigBee

Control and automation	AllJoyn SCS BUS with OpenWebNet C-Bus (protocol) CEBus EnOcean EHS Insteon KNX LonWorks ONE-NET Universal Powerline Bus X10 ZigBee Z-Wave

Data networking	Ethernet HomePlug HomePNA Wi-Fi

Tasks

Other

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