Smart home has brought us many advantages to home users from automated devices to communicating devices away from home. In this blogpost I'll be talking about what will be the opportunities that smart homes can implement.
Cloud storage
With devices starting to communicate with users, where will all the data collected to be stored? What if every single day the data usage of a device reach to it's maximum and could not provide any further usage of the device? The solution to this problem is to implement cloud storage for the user. The advantage of having a cloud storage is to provide user another form of storage which do not require a physical storage to be stored in the internet. However these cumulative data is important thus encrypting the data is needed in order for these data to be stored in the cloud server.
Controlled temperature
We all know that smart homes do provide energy saving from turning on the heater or air-conditioner when hot or cold, but we have not heard the heater provide a certain temperature when we having a shower. What this means is that smart home should implement temperature control for our water heater during all the season, for example usually we love to have our bath approximately 35 degree Celsius. During the winter, the humidity of the air reduce thus the water become cold and heating the same temperature might not be 35 degree Celsius or might be hotter making it unstable. With controlled temperature, smart home users can set their preferable temperature throughout the entire four seasons
Home assistance
What sounds better than automation? Assistance. Imagine your house not only it is automated, it is guided with tools and technique. For example we just reached a new country and do not know what are the standard of noise pollution throughout the neighborhood, with smart home assistant we are able to detect the noise control and request the user to town it down or provide a barrier to reduce noise pollution. Smart home assistance can also help waste management better by providing a sensor to the dustbin and calls the garbage truck when the dustbin is full.
Health care manager
Everything will be much better if we get to take a look on how healthy we are, with the usage of telecommunication, we are capable of tracking the user's health and provide feedback to the user. For example a single device like a smart watch is worn by the user and goes for jogging, when he comes back he will be provided a summary of the exercise done and recommendation on what to eat for dinner. Wouldn't that promote healthier community? Also we usually live in the world of technologies where download rate is really important for us, why not when the user is exercising, the bandwidth increases. This will also promote healthier community.
Here are the report I've researched and came up with the opportunities of smart home hope you enjoy and provide feedback by commenting on the post.
http://www.adlittle.com/downloads/tx_adlreports/ADL_TIME_2012_Smart_Home_Opportunity.pdf
http://www.csimagazine.com/whitepapers/ArthurDLittle/130119-ADL_Smart%20Home_article.pdf
Beautiful read but may I inquire, what are the implications that may be fall this concept in rural countries that do not have suitable resources. Don't they need to redesign their infrastructure just to meet a requirement of Smart Home?
ReplyDeletethank you for your comment, looks like you have a point there if its the rural area, have not looked into that point so far, personally in my opinion rural area should start to modernize to eventually goes to smart city to allow smart homes
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