As someone who is about to start building his own house soon i have been pondering to what extend it comes down to home automation. What I would want at this p

As someone who is about to start building his own house soon i have been pondering to what extend it comes down to home automation. What I would want at this point would be. * Automatic light control from a central device and a phone/tablet. To better extend dimable. Also it would be nice if it recognized that there was no one in the room and shut the lights or turn them on when someone walks in. Special care needs to be done when watching tv in order to dim the lights accordingly. * Automatic shutters that can be handled as the lights controls. Could be nice if they learned when to actually shut ( when there is too much sun and the AC is running, or when the heat is working and it is day ). * Media centrer functionality. This is nice and can easily be done by a central pc and instances of XBMC using a shared library. With raspberry this is the cheapest automation that can be done. * Smart door, recognize who is at my door and grant access to me or anyone i have added to the list. When someone hits the door, send me something to my phone so i can know who is there. Add me the capability to open the door remotely. * Smart heating like Nest seems to be doing. Never went into much detail about that. * Security system. A good security system is essential. Monitor with camera and report any activity that is in the house when the system is on. Let me know when there is no power, no internet, or someone interacted with the alarm system. * A smart fridge as someone else wrote here. If it can know in what stuff i am running low on and send me an email that i am running low on this that would be super (doesnt yet exist) * Info graphics, in what is going on my house. Where is the majority of the power been used ? How many people visited my house ? and many more.