As more and more digital appliances populate our homes, networking them to 
form a home automation (HA) system not only becomes an option, but almost a 
necessity. While comfort, security, and energy efficiency can be provided by 
many existing systems, they all remain complex islands that are difficult to 
expand and customize. We propose Internet technology to remedy the situation 
and to become the future solution for HA. For this, we analyze the feasibility 
of today's Internet technology with regard to traditional HA solutions. 
Furthermore, we present two case studies that substantiate the benefits of our 
proposal. As we will show, with IPv6 and 6LoWPAN, a single network serves the 
classical as well as emerging aspects of HA while concepts from the Web 
provide benefits for both, developers and users.