Welcome to Digital Home Technology Integration!

"Get in on a growing marketplace - digital home technology installation!"

This program is designed to prepare the student for employment as a digital home technology integration (DHTI) specialist. DHTIs integrate such diverse technologies as computer networks, lighting control, home security, home entertainment, heating and air conditioning, video, data and voice systems to create the “smart home” of the future. This major provides the knowledge and skills required for employment as well as industry-based certification.

The science fiction vision of home automation with a robot in every home is now being replaced with a more practical concept of integrating electronic devices and personal computers to create a single, centrally controlled environment. Homeowners want to connect everyone and everything within the home. This new concept is referred to as integrated home network, and those who install home networks are called digital home technology integrators (DHTIs).

DHTI's learn to integrate such diverse technologies as computer networks, lighting control, home security, home entertainment, heating and air conditioning, video, data and voice systems. In the past, each of these systems was installed and maintained by a separate individual; electrician, cabling technician, security installer, low-voltage electrician, home entertainment installer, computer servicing technician. The move in industry now is to have a single, educated technician perform all of these tasks in a holistic manner during construction, retrofitting, or maintenance.

Opportunities exist throughout the greater San Francisco Bay area to the Sacramento Valley. Employers using DHTIs include alarm companies, home entertainment and computer retailers, cable and satellite television vendors, electricians, home maintenance companies, and home builders. A new group of companies that specialize specifically in home technology are also beginning to appear further demonstrating the predicted growth in the field. The preparation for industry based professional certification (DHTI+ through CompTIA) insures that workers have the credentials required by employers in the home technology industry. Workers are usually expected to provide services in the homes of customers and are expected to be able to interact with customers on a professional basis.

Required Courses   Units
ECTN 111—Fund. of Wire and Cabling   1
ECTN 112—Fund. of Fiber Optics   1
ECTN 113—Fund. of Wireless Communications   1
ECTN 122—Computer Network+ Technology   4
ECTN 124—Computer Security+ Technology   4
ECTN 126—A+ Computer Hardware Technology   4
ECTN 128—A+ Computer Operating Systems Technology   4
ECTN 175—Home Technology Integration Techniques   4
ECTN 176—Digital Home Technology Integration   4
IT 160 - Electrical Fundamentals
    or
MT 140 - Principles of Industrial Electrical Systems 		       3
    33

Recommended Electives:

CIS 050—Microcomputer Applications   3
DRFT 079—Blueprint Reading   3
ECTN 102—Electrical Safety   3
OCED 090—Occupational Work Experience   1

 

Job-Direct Certificate for
Home Technology Integrator

Required Courses   Units
IT 160 - Electrical Fundamentals   3
ECTN 111 - Fundamentals of Wire and Cabling   1
ECTN 112 - Fundamentals of Fiber Optics   1
ECTN 113 - Fundamentals of Wireless Communication   1
ECTN 175 - Home Technology Integration Techniques        4
    10

Student May Substitute:

MT 140 for IT 160


To achieve the…

Associate in Science Degree — Completion of 60 units, including the 30-unit major, general education requirements and electives

Certificate of Achievement — Completion of 33-unit major listed.

Job-Direct Certificate — Completion of 33-unit requirement.

This page last updated 12/08/08 by Jamie Smith.