Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Smart Home

What is a Smart Home? A Smart Home can let user to monitor and control their house equipment function either automatically or remotely by smartphone or computer. A central unit will be placed in a smart home that connect all the electronic devices together and provide the functional over network for user to connect to their home when there is existing of internet on their devices. The image below shows one of an example from Vyrox that how does a Smart Home works.

Vyrox Smart House Concept Philosophy
Smart House bring benefits:
  • Home Automation - scheduled what you want to do by one touch
  • Home Surveillance - provide real-time monitoring when you miss your home through internet using any web enable devices
  • Home Security - able to receive notification immediately when someone enter the house and check alarm status
  • Home Appliances Control - able to switch on air-conditioner and set to a comfort temperature before reaching home
  • Lighting Control - automatically turn on the light when walking to the room
  • Lightning Design - change the light scene based on the atmosphere
  • Energy Saving - automatically turn of the light when the motion sensor did not sense any motion
  • Home Theater Control - centralized all the control in one remote controller namely TV, Astro, DVD player, sound system, etc using tablets.

Experience how a Smart Home in future would look like in video below.


After watching the video, what are the question or problem prompt out in your mind? Is the price paid for a "Smart Home" is affordable for most people? Will it take time for elder people to learn using it? Maintenance? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

4 comments:

  1. This is a great idea to create the easier life for us.
    However, do you think is it enough to have only fingerprint recognition to authenticate the house owner?

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    1. At this moment, Yes, but in future it may not. As we know convenient and security can not be equally focus on. If chosen security will be trade off of convenient to the user. Based on the video, security and convenient are both balance in my opinion. Again, it is abstract the measure how balance is balance are. Anyway. Thank you for your comment.

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  2. Smart Home is indeed a very good concept but all these facilities are not really a necessity to everybody and as years goes by, the people would not be able to live without these technologies if they are too dependent on it. And since every equipment within the household are linked together, how are people going to counter the dangers of people who hacked into the system and therefore would have total access of the household. Any suggestion how can people counter this issue?

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    1. In my opinion, there is no way to achieve 100% security, but there should be an be the organization that responsible for this issue. They can hire peoples to monitor their customer smart home system and report any unauthorized login or problem to customers that may affect their security. Thank you for commenting.

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