21 Jan 4 Amazing Smart Home Innovations That Will Transform Our Lives
The IoT (Internet of Things) tech revolution continues to transform every corner of our lives. And the latest innovations for smart homes, from thought-controlled rooms and appliances to bendable lightstrips and smart security, will astonish you — especially these 4 Amazing Smart Home Innovations That Will Transform Our Lives:
1. Time to Get Creative with Light
The Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus is one of the most interesting items to hit the home lighting market in recent years. The new product combines the popular Philips customizable LED lighting — the 1600 lumen lights that allow you to adjust their color and intensity remotely using an app on your smartphone — and mounts them on flexible strips.
The best part? These strips allow you to bend and configure the light in just about any shape or location. As Recombu.com puts it: “If you’ve ever wanted the undersides of your kitchen cabinets to light up like a tricked out Ford Fiesta XR2, then get thee to Philips’s Hue Lightstrip Plus.”
2. Thought-Controlled Smart Homes
Eda Alman Aydin, a researcher at Gazi University in Turkey, is using the brainwave scanning technology EEG and integrating it into smart homes to do something remarkable: give users, especially those with physical disabilities, the power to control their homes with their thoughts.
Here’s how it works:
- An EEG cap scans and recognizes a particular brain wave pattern called the P300, which indicates that the person intends to do some specific action.
- Images representing different functions in the smart home — i.e. turning on the TV or thermostat, picking a movie on the TV and turning up the volume, changing the shade controls of your windows, switching off the lights, etc. — appear before you and when you see the one you want, your brain emits the P300.
- The cap sees the signal, and the signal works as a trigger that activates the function corresponding to the image you saw.
According to recent tests, as reported by New Science, five people tried out the system. It presented 49 commands to each user. Although it took a few flashes of an image to pick up the P300, when it did recognize the activity in the brain, it executed the command correctly 95 percent of the time for three of the users. For two of the users, it worked properly 100 percent of the time.
The tech is not ready to hit the market, but Aydin is working toward the first prototype. The days of adjusting your thermostat or turning down the lights by merely thinking about it could be here soon.
3. Making Dumb Appliances Smart
LG Electronics, Inc. recently announced their amazing new sensor tech called the smartThinQ. Its premise is simple: it transforms dumb appliances into smart appliances. According SiliconAngle.com, it can also enhance appliances that are already smart.
According to Engadget, the new device uses “feedback-like temperature and vibration to tell you what your devices are doing. It can tell when your washer has finished by waiting for the shaking to stop, for instance, or tell you if someone left the fridge door open while you were out. In some cases, you can even remotely control those older machines…”
4. Smart Home Security Just Got Smarter
New smart security technology like ADT Pulse, a service that Zion Security offers, allows you to monitor your home security remotely from your mobile device. And depending on which ADT Pulse service you use, you can control and monitor every aspect of your home security, including your security cameras. You can even remotely control your home’s lights, deadbolts, and thermostats.
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