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How The Internet Of Things Will Change Your Life (Part 1)

3/30/2014 3:29:00 PM

There’s a reason why mobile phones today come with the ‘smart’ prefix. They don’t just serve as devices that are used to make calls but also as personal assistants, workout trainers, weathermen, navigators and more.

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The impact of the Internet on our daily life

All of these functions are made possible thanks to a dazzling array of sensors built in the hardware. A standard smartphone comes equipped with an accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS and proximity sensor. Coupled with mobile operating systems and apps, these smart devices communicate a wide variety of data with their owners.

This feedback in turn lets us recalibrate how we perform everyday tasks, helping us to become better versions of ourselves. Already we have smartphones which can measure our footsteps per day, and wearable computers which can tell us how well we’ve slept and how many calories we’ve burned in a day.

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The breakthrough of technology lets us recalibrate how we perform everyday tasks

More excitingly, this design paradigm is now being extended and employed to a whole new range of smart devices and appliances: Imagine a day when a smartwatch on your hand can detect when it’s the best time for you to wake up based on your sleep cycle, tell your room lights and music player to gradually turn up to get you up. Once you’re in the shower, the coffee maker in your kitchen turns itself on and makes you a hot cup of java. As you step out of the door, your smartphone pings your car’s GPS to plot the route to work with the least amount of traffic. This future isn’t that far off, all you’ll need is for common devices to get online and communicating with each other, a future known as the internet of things.

Home & Appliances

Smart mobile phones sound like they make sense, but what about smart washing machines, cookers and refrigerators?

LG Home Chat Washing Machine

Recognition of voice commands is a feature that is already present for smartphones in the form of services such as Siri and Google Now. LG has decided to bring the most natural form of communication for humans over to their appliances, such as a new Washing Machine unveiled at CES 2014. As part of LG’s Home Chat initiative for appliances, users will actually be able to issue verbal queries or commands to their appliances.

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LG unveils ‘talking’ washing machines

Belkin Crock-Pot WeMo Smart Slow Cooker

Simple appliances can benefit a lot from some smart sensor sophistication as evidenced by the Belkin Crock-Pot WeMo Smart Slow Cooker. As a part of Belkin’s efforts to build a smarter home appliance eco-system, this Crock-Pot can be controlled remotely through the WeMo application. Users can turn it on or off, adjust temperature and set timers without having to interact with the Crock-Pot itself.

 

 

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