ITAM / SPECIALLY ADAPTED SMART HOME
RUSTY DUNAGAN
For Army Sergeant Rusty Dunagan and his family, the Gary Sinise Foundation’s residence in Edmond, Oklahoma combined carefully considered home design with a comprehensive smart-home installation. The Foundation’s published account describes the adapted home as part of its effort to make daily living more comfortable and to support independence.
ITAM’s contribution was the connected technology experience: ELAN control interfaces, entertainment and the integrated systems that make a fully equipped smart home feel straightforward to use. Authentic project photographs show Rusty at a wall-mounted ELAN touchscreen and using another controller at a countertop, as well as the home’s entertainment interface. Those photographs capture what the work was intended to achieve: household technology available where it is useful, without requiring a collection of unrelated controls.
The emphasis here is deliberately on a complete and well-executed smart home—not on an invented one-off accessibility device. Reliable coordination between controls, audio/video and the home’s other technology was the essential accomplishment.