Smart Homes Are We There Yet
Or so the home appliance market would have us believe.
Smart homes are we there yet. For home automation to be effective devices and appliances must be interoperable regardless of its brand and manufacturing company. Ibm is working with appliance manufacturers all over the world to accomplish a seamless end user experience. The time span is larger than you might think. However it is important to be realistic.
50 insanely useful smart home products you can buy right now those who have played xbox kinect will have experienced a little of what it s like to live in a digitally submersive world like that featured in the movie minority report where a wave of your controller free hand has cause and effect on a screen in front of you. Sadly aside from a few companies like terrafugia this is some distance from a daily reality yet. There is no such standard in the market yet. Just how substantial has the shift towards smart homes been.
To learn about the watson iot platform and our work connecting things. Smart homes also improve home efficiency. Predictions of how we will live in the future are always destined to be somewhat hit and miss we ve been expecting flying cars for quite some time. We ve reviewed a lot of smart light bulbs and while we ve yet to find one that does it all the yeelight smart led bulb comes pretty darn close.
The smart home is capturing headlines with its futuristic possibilities of smart cars fridges and thermostats all connected to each other. It s taken about 15 years and we re not there yet i still have very little. Our homes may be getting smarter but let s face it. We are certainly there now.
Even with all of the cutting edge technology we put in our homes today they re still pretty dumb. Already smart devices are having a big effect on the way we build and renovate homes and their impact is only going to get bigger. Smart homes can accommodate user preferences and habits. Smart homes are the new black.
And we re not even there yet. So no we re not there yet but we will be.