The History of the Smart Home

in #dxchain6 years ago

I'm going to trace the history of the Wise 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. It's to my home outside New York City on the eastern end of Long Island. The use case for a thermostat which could be available over the Internet was so evident; I wondered why it took me so long. It would have been prohibitively expensive for me to heat a weekend house during the week, and a timer would not work, as I was never really sure I was going to be at the home on a weekend. The perfect solution, a thermostat that might be remotely accessed from a smartphone over the world wide web to turn on the heat as I am on the highway and a few hours away from getting home.

There is a corresponding downloadable program for your own Android or iPhone that, when you start it, shows you the temperature of the space. If you have multiple zones in your house, you can see the temperature in each zone. You may even see the temperature outside of your residence. Best of all, there is 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 has been a part of the smart home. The truth is that people have been talking about and building some variation of an intelligent home for decades. When I refer to an intelligent home, I'm referring to a home featuring intelligent technology that simplifies and automates everyday activities like turning on lights, locking the door, lowering shades, and, yes, changing the settings on your thermostat. You may call any device “smart" that's capable of doing something autonomously. A smart thermostat automatically adjusts the heat downward if there isn't any motion in my house. That's what makes it autonomous.

Fast forward to 2011 and Nest and a time when most folks you knew had a wise phone. While Nest wasn't the first intelligent thermostat, they caught the tech community's creativity with a clever interface and by placing a WiFi chip within their thermostat which connected it to the Internet. I could eventually heat up my home from the road. Big companies and startups alike started to focus on what other devices, if connected to the web, could capture the public's attention and gain mass adoption.

The smart home space fascinates me, first, because it promises to transform how we live. Second, because it's 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 on 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 of the places you may want connected devices beyond the home. A car might have a system that monitors where it goes and the wear and tear on the wheels. This could all be reported back to the cloud, sharing with the driver at some later date that is it's time to realign or change the tires. Machinery within a factory might send out a report of their functionality 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 suggest what you will need to do to enhance your health. All these examples are smart devices. And all of these, including devices which compose the wise home category, are a part of the larger category the Internet of Things, or IoT. .

The Internet of things, in a way, is not a recent concept, in There was 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 issues like global warming, national security, and energy management. Conceivably, the Internet of Things can help, or even to prevent them, to at least improve things.... If you are able to handle 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 monitor
Another example of what a smart house community could be able of, if all of the homes were connected to a central network and communicating with one another. Benefits through IOT are achievable through blockchain technology like Dxchain.

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