When you arrive at work, smart parking system sends parking space availability details to your smartphone to avoid wastage of effort and time in searching for a vacant slot. Employee wellness smart wearable keeps track of sleeping pattern to detect possibility of anxiety and stress and suggesting remedies. During the day, you can get notifications from the surveillance camera installed at home when someone visits. You can also talk to the visitor or remotely open the smart door lock if it is someone you know.
Meetings, discussions, troubleshooting sessions are held with VR & AR (Virtual & Augmented Reality) headsets to overcome limitations of voice and video call/conferences. These headsets provide realistic interpersonal and realistic proximity experience. In an industrial enterprise context, wearable devices such as wearable scanners help to scan bar code by freeing the worker’s hands for other tasks such as lifting boxes or navigating trolleys.
Your home network detects your arrival and prepares the home for you by turning on devices such as smart water heater, smart air conditioner, smart coffee maker, and opening the smart gate. Based on stress and impact of day-long activities, smart fitness equipment configures and recommends exercises. Additionally, smart kitchen which is comprised of devices such as smart oven and smart refrigerator, recommend diet based on weather and activities. The smart refrigerator is capable of identifying items that have been exhausted and automatically order them for you. The smart oven can recognize the item being cooked by identifying ingredients through camera, set heating limit based on the identified ingredients, and automatically show recipe videos.
Smart sleep training devices can help you get a sound sleep. The smart band keeps track of sleeping parameters such as amount of time of deep sleep, light sleep, duration you were awake, etc. to recommend exercises and diet the next day.
We are already surrounded and dependent on algorithms and applications of smart devices and it is only going to increase. One of the main advantages is the ability to manage your time effectively and lead a better quality of life through the use of smart technology. However, success of these smart devices will depend on the fulfilment of consumer needs.
Security is one of the major aspects because hacker/rouge devices cannot be allowed to connect to home or enterprise networks; all communications have to be secure to avoid middle-man-attacks. Other aspects are battery life of devices, availability of many connectivity technologies and frameworks leading to challenges of interoperability. Obviously, ease of installing, configuring, and using many devices are important to the existence and advancements of these smart devices.
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