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SMART HOME TECHNOLOGY: FROM SMART OVENS BY TOVALA TO SMART SLEEP SYSTEMS
The next generation of smart homes anticipate your needs before you do
May 29, 2017 | By Sophie Kalkreuth
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The Nest thermostat adapts to the user’s lifestyle
Smart home technology has come a long way from clunky automated blinds and
motion detecting lights. We now have smart ovens like the Tovala, which reads
barcodes and adjusts its steam and temperature settings to best cook the food
you place inside it. There are devices like the Netatmo Weather Station, which
measures pollution levels, temperatures and lets you know if you need to water
your garden. There’s even the Nightingale, a customised smart sleep system that
immerses your bedroom with comfortable ambient noises known as “sound blankets”.
Perhaps one of the best-known innovations is Nest, a thermostat that monitors
inhabitants’ activity, learns their schedules and temperature preferences and
heats or cools the residence as it deems appropriate. But despite a flood of
products that promise to make homes “smarter”, a barrier to mass adoption has
been the technological fragmentation of the smart home ecosystem, in which
consumers need multiple networking devices, apps and more to build and run their
smart home.
A number of companies are working to address this. Google has (unsurprisingly)
developed its own smart home system that makes use of its vast search
capabilities. Google Home functions as a control point for a variety of smart
systems, including Nest, Chromecast, Samsung SmartThings, Philips and
IFTTT-friendly devices. You can also ask it to play songs via Google Play Music,
and it can give out alerts about travel disruptions, such as flight
cancellations.
DigitalSTROM’s platform orchestrates the interaction of everything from lighting
to temperature to sound
Going a step further, Zurich-based company digitalSTROM specialises in the
complete digital transformation of the home. Through the company’s platform,
analogue devices are made digital and then connected to each other via software
that orchestrates their interaction. “We can make sure the music stops when
someone rings the doorbell”, explains CEO Martin Vesper. “We also give the
devices additional abilities. We can set up a kettle that responds to voice
command and allows you to select the temperature of the water”.
Retrofitting analogue systems to digital is done via the home’s electrical
system, which means digitalSTROM is currently limited to countries that use
220-240 volts (this includes Europe and most of Asia.) But otherwise, the
transition is relatively seamless. Existing smart home technologies such as
audio-visual systems that are already installed in the home can also be
incorporated into the platform.
digitalSTROM keeps a close eye on new technologies that can benefit their
system. Recent developments like voice and image recognition have already been
incorporated. Hold your hands under the tap and a camera linked to Microsoft’s
cloud service for image recognition allows the sink to see your hands and give
you water at a pleasant, hand-washing temperature. Hold a cup under the sink and
it will fill with cold water, stopping automatically when it’s full. Martin
Vesper’s own home has undergone a complete digital transformation and he says
can easily make things happen by simply “talking to” his house. “When I make
tea, I don’t have to get up twice”, he says.
The Netatmo Weather Station measures temperatures and pollution levels in a
space
Property developers are also starting to work more closely with tech companies
to integrate smart home features into projects from the start. In Singapore, the
newly launched 6 Derbyshire project by Fantasia Investment includes “LifeUp”, an
app that allows residents to book facilities, make payments, as well as control
appliances like air-conditioners and audio-visual systems inside the home. The
project, which bills itself as a “smart condominium”, also includes facial
recognition devices for residents to access common facilities like the gym, as
well as car plate recognition systems.
Philip Tang & Sons have also created an integrated platform for Corals at Keppel
Bay that combines smart home control, condo management and lifestyle offerings.
Dubbed Habitap, the app allows residents to set their home temperature, unlock
their door remotely or book condominium facilities through a few taps in a
single app on their smartphone. “You can have all these devices, but if you have
to use an app for every device, you’re not going to find it convenient”, said
Philip Tang & Sons CEO Franklin Tang. Habitap’s streamlined service is
integrated into 366 units at the new waterfront development from Keppel Land and
the platform also includes state-of-the-art bank-grade security features
developed in collaboration with Swedish security company Keypasco.
Safety and security are central to most of today’s smart home platforms. In
digitalSTROM’s system, facial recognition can be used to identify houseguests.
The system is also able to detect abnormalities such as water or gas leaks in
the home, and users can also program extra features such as instructions for
children in the event of a fire that sound over the home speakers when the alarm
goes off. “A smart home is safer than a non-smart home”, Martin Vesper says.
The DigitalSTROM chip can connect various devices
Not everyone likes the idea of a digitised home, however. Some fear being hacked
or spied on— reasonable anxieties given the penetrability of some devices. Smart
home products are sometimes vulnerable due to poor programming or because they
come with easy-to-guess usernames and passwords. Tech experts urge consumers to
change the default passwords and update software regularly.
Martin Vesper believes the response to smart home technologies is largely a
matter of presentation. At CES 2017, the world’s largest consumer electronics
show, digitalSTROM unveiled a robot for the home that provides cognitive
services through customer interaction. “People think the robot is cute”, says
Vesper. But, he says, if you take the same functionality, basically two web cams
and a microphone, and put them in a room, people will feel uneasy.
“When we feel we are losing control, then we get scared. That’s totally normal”,
Vesper says. At the same time, he points out, people like to feel understood and
enjoy pre-selected services that cater to their needs. “Previously there was the
corner store where the owner knew what you wanted. Now it’s algorithms that
predict our desires”. Ironically with today’s flood of information and seemingly
endless product diversity, algorithms may ultimately have the power to reduce
complexity and make our homes stress-free.
This article was first published in Palace 19.
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