IoT: Revolutionizing your home

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IoT Revolutionizing your home
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Home automation

• Since the beginning of technology, people started
  automating things and we have come to a point
  where most of the work is being done with the
  help of automated machines. Now is an era of
  automating the automated machines so that they
  can behave according to external conditions and
  choice of a particular person. Home automation is
  part of this evolution. From Wikipedia
• Home automation is the residential extension
  of building automation and involves the control
  and automation of lighting, heating, ventilation,
  air conditioning (HVAC), appliances, and
  security. Modern systems generally consist of
  switches and sensors connected to a central hub
  sometimes called a gateway from which the
  system is controlled with a user interface that
  is interacted either with a wall mounted
  terminal, mobile phone software, tablet computer
  or a web interface.

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Home automation present scenario

• Currently the market of home automation systems
  and IoT gadgets is heavily fragmented. Many big
  organizations are creating devices for home
  automation and using their proprietary protocols
  for connecting those devices to rest of the
  world. Lets consider a few such devices
• iHomes SmartPlug is a wifi-enabled
  SmartPlug. We can connect products such as lamps,
  fans, or humidifiers into its socket and control
  them remotely while were home or even while
  were not.

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• netatmos Weather Station provides weather
  information of home as well as outside. Its
  Indoor module measures indoor comfort and
  provides vital information, alerts us when we
  need to air out our home to bring down its
  pollution level. Its outdoor module gives us
  real-time weather information gathered right at
  our doorstep.
• Sonoss Smart Speaker can stream all our
  favourite music to any room or every room.
• All these devices come with companion apps for
  Android and iOS platforms and we can communicate
  with these devices using their respective apps.
  This way we can control these devices or devices
  can notify us on occurrence of various events.

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Home automation future

• Do you really think the above mentioned system is
  automated?
• Actually its not, let me tell you how. In the
  above scenario, there is no interaction between
  devices and we need to control all the devices
  ourselves. Wouldnt it be nice for us if all of
  these devices could communicate with each other
  and react accordingly.
• So, for example, if humidity in the room drops
  below a certain level, weather station could
  notify it to smart plug and the smart plug could
  automatically switch on the humidifier. Similarly
  if air quality is bad, weather station could tell
  this to Sonos speaker and speaker could actually
  tell us Hey! better open the window now.
• This way we dont have to do that ourselves as it
  could all be automated. It is possible by one of
  the following two ways

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More detail

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  lutionizing-your-home/
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