The history of the smart home

in #dxchain6 years ago

I will trace the history of the smart home and try to Contextualize where the wise home movement sits at the bigger technology category, the Internet of Things.

It is the dead of winter and you're driving home. The use case for a thermostat that could be available over the Web was so obvious; I wondered why it took me so long. It would have been prohibitively expensive for me to heat a weekend home during the week, and a timer would not work, as I was never really sure I was going to be in the house on a weekend. The perfect solution, a thermostat that might be remotely accessed from a smartphone over the Internet to turn on the heat as I am on the highway and still a couple of hours away from getting home.

It is a thermostat that is connected to the wireless network in your dwelling. There's a corresponding downloadable program for your own Android or iPhone that, when you open it, shows you the temperature of the room. If you've got multiple zones in your home, you can see the temperature in each zone. You can even find the temperature outside your residence. Best of all, there's a friendly interface that allows you to adjust the temperature upwards or downwards.

You'd be forgiven if you thought that the it was the first Instance of a connected device that was part of the wise home. The truth is that people have been talking about and constructing some variation of a smart home for decades. When I refer to a smart home, I am referring to a home featuring intelligent technology that simplifies and automates everyday activities like turning on lights, locking the door, lowering colors, and, yes, changing the settings on your thermostat. You may call any device “smart" that is capable of doing something autonomously. A smart thermostat automatically adjusts the heat downward if there isn't any movement in my house. That is what makes it autonomous.

Fast forward to 2011 and Nest and a time when most people you knew had a smart phone. While Nest wasn't the first intelligent thermostat, they captured the technology community's creativity with a clever interface and by putting a Wi-Fi___33 chip within their thermostat which connected it to the net. I could eventually heat up my home from the street. Big companies and startups alike started to concentrate on what other devices, if connected to the Internet, could capture the public's attention and gain mass adoption.

The Wise home space fascinates me; first, since it promises to transform the way we live. Second, because it has been in the cusp of taking off for decades. And finally, as it represents big business for technology companies and tech startup entrepreneurs.

Think about smart homes as places where people live that contain Devices connected to the Internet. Firms write software to program all of these devices with a design to make your life easier. Let's imagine for a moment all the places you may want connected devices outside of the home. A car might have a system that monitors where it moves along with the wear and tear on the wheels. This could all be reported back to the cloud, sharing with the driver at a later date that is it is time to realign or change the tires. Machinery inside a factory may send out a report of their performance and subsequently be adjusted to raise the output of whatever the factory is making. The Fit bit bracelet on your wrist captures your steps and can indicate what you need to do to improve your health. All of these examples are smart devices. And all of these, including devices that compose the wise home category, are a part of the bigger category the Internet of Things, or IoT. .

The Internet of things, in a way, is not a recent concept, in There has been research on wireless sensor networks for decades, and the Internet of Things is fundamentally a wireless sensor network that's now on the Internet.

National or government point of view, you have major problems like global warming, national security, and energy management. Conceivably, the Internet of Things can help, if not to prevent them, to improve things.... In case you have some ability to monitor groundwater levels, river flows, rainfalls, you have some ability to possibly be able to predict in advance when and where flooding is going to occur. If you can manage energy better and increase energy efficiency, you can reduce energy consumption and so the effect on the environment and hold off global warming or at least slow it down. With the growth in global terrorism, some of it caused by the Internet itself, the ability to be able to better track
One more example of what a smart home community could be able of, if all of the houses were connected to a central network and communication with one another. Decentralization is a means of bringing us closer and all these Benefits through IOT are achievable through blockchain technology such as Dxchain.

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