Smart homes for a comfortable life

             
                                                                 Introduction   

       

We find that while we are living our daily lives characterized by monotony and boring routine, there are great innovative minds immersed in designing future smart homes, the purpose of which is to improve home life in a way that provides comfort, luxury and safety for individuals living in these homes, depending on providing smart home devices that have the ability to communicate with humans through various technological means, including receiving these devices by touch, voice or eye print, and also commands can be given to these devices remotely via smart phones from the car or from the person's workplace, which saves time and effort, and all of this is reflected in achieving the desired luxury factor.

* Examples of companies interested in working on creating future smart homes.

* Microsoft and smart homes.

- Microsoft's smart home is in full swing, with the sleek, modern facility at the company's headquarters in Raymond, Washington, housing a host of futuristic technologies that could improve home life.

- The front door doesn't have the traditional key we know, but is controlled by a biometric hand reader that can recognize family members and let them in automatically.

- Upon entering the home's lobby, the curtains will automatically be raised, the lights will turn on, and the occupant's recent messages will be displayed on a nearby wall.

- In terms of music, Microsoft's home will play your favorite music.

- For those who love to cook, Microsoft's home will display recipes on the kitchen counter, and the microwave will be able to read barcodes for products, so that all types of food will be cooked automatically without the need to program the device itself.

- We also find that the gesture recognition technology integrated into Microsoft Home starts working as soon as the resident enters his bedroom. All he has to do is hold a piece of his clothing in front of the mirror. The home reads a card that recognizes its radio frequencies and then suggests clothes that match this clothing from the wardrobe. Microsoft Home can also tell its resident what clothes have been sent to the laundry.

- As for those who prefer to work from home, the office employs smart card technology in which a microchip that can be read is integrated into a pocket-sized card to access files at the workplace through a secure connection to the company’s internal network.

- Smart card technology also plays a vital role in the living room, as it provides secure access to the latest digital multimedia content. In addition, we find that the living room includes an interactive gaming environment that enables the homeowners and guests to compete with opponents around the world.

* Panasonic and smart homes.

- We find that Panasonic has invested heavily in smart home technology. It has adopted the environmental path as it was able to complete the construction of the world-class environmentally friendly house in Tokyo. It is a home model dedicated to meeting the requirements of a sound environment and the principles of global design.

- The house includes the latest devices from Nanasonic to the point that it contains a person recognition system by scanning the iris to control those entering through the front door of the house.

- But the feature that makes Panasonic's house stand out from other smart homes is its integration of solar energy systems and fuel cells with the aim of increasing energy efficiency and reducing the harmful impact of the house on the environment to the maximum extent possible.

- Air-purifying air conditioners, water-based fluorocarbon-free refrigerators and long-lasting LED lighting are just a few of the comforts of a world-class, eco-friendly home that Panasonic says will eventually emit 60 percent less greenhouse gases than a typical home and will make a huge difference in reducing global warming, especially in hotter regions.

*Intel and Smart Homes.

-Intel believes it has found a way to this future world by developing a new breakthrough technology called Viiv (pronounced like the word Five) that can automatically integrate multiple electronic devices into a home network.

- Intel's goal in inventing Viiv technology was to help people adapt to the increasing complexity of modern technology, but this technology will facilitate the process of integrating home appliances by connecting them to the Viiv network.

* Georgia Institute of Technology and Smart Homes (Georgia Tech).

- This institute adopts a specialized approach that requires smart homes to help their residents gradually become independent as they grow older.

- In some detail, the approach adopted by Georgia Tech is to develop smart homes to monitor their elderly residents in order to ensure their protection and provide them with health care as well. At the same time, the project presents a group of multiple technologies that help activate the memory of the elderly due to the possibility of their exposure to waves of Alzheimer's.

- These technologies may help in cooking and cleaning to the point that they provide easy interactive means to stay in constant contact with the rest of the family.

* In Voice Technology and Smart Homes.

- We find that this company has already taken huge steps in terms of controlling devices using voice recognition technology, whether through a wireless microphone attached to a person's clothes or through a microphone inside the TV remote control.

- In Voice technology also enables the use of voice commands to connect to the Internet in order to search for something or classify music files stored on the home server.

- This method is of great benefit to the elderly in browsing the Internet compared to the necessity of using a keyboard in the past.

                                           Conclusion   

- It is clear that the investments of the aforementioned companies directed to design future smart homes characterized by their ability to provide comfort and luxury to their residents are in themselves an investment in a home specific to the company itself that belongs to it only and can be considered a trial version in which the company employs all its technological capabilities to bring this home to the highest technological level. This adds some complexity to this technology because it has not yet become available to the average person. This in itself is the biggest challenge for these companies and this challenge will remain until these companies succeed in producing simpler and easier to use products that are also available to the average person and not to a specific group.