Integration of smart home with mobile applications
Over the past decade, mobile technologies have spread widely throughout the world. Thanks to phones and smartphones, people were able to always stay in touch with their friends and colleagues. Today, with the advent of Internet access, mobile devices form a new market in the field of smart homes.
For mobile technology, the concept of a smart home has prepared a special place. Until recently, this promising direction was not widely used. However, now the situation has changed radically, and it has become possible to control the smart home using smartphones or tablets. Thus, mobile phones are becoming not just a means for accessing the Internet and making calls, but a way to control smart devices.
Technologies have been developing tirelessly, and now we have a universal remote control, with which you can turn on and off the lights in rooms, control multimedia and other systems. For example, the consumer can set up the start of the washing machine for the period when the electricity meters work in the “night” mode and this will save the family budget. Thanks to smartphones, you can stay “in touch” with your apartment, even being at a great distance from it.
Almost all companies involved in the creation of smart devices, deliver mobile applications with their equipment. Especially giants such as SmartThings, offering large integrated solutions for smart home. SmartThings application allows you to control devices literally with one click of a button and customize their behavior as you wish. You just need to specify how the smart house to behave, for example, when you sleep, awake, work or walk. The application will do everything for you. In Russia, large mobile operators, in particular MTS and Megafon, offer integrated solutions with mobile applications.
SmartThings application
In the near future, according to Caesar Satellite, users will begin to show increasing interest in mobile applications that manage security systems. The application installed on the phone can show the total amount of electricity consumed, the state of the security system and assess the climatic situation in the house.
Security systems can recognize and respond to specific emergencies: a gas or water leak, a fire, and unauthorized entry into the house, sending a signal of emergency to your smartphone in time, as well as to the rescue service, firefighter or police.
All this is due to the widespread mobile communications and mobile devices. Thus, according to Gartner, in 2015, the number of shipments of smartphones worldwide amounted to about 2 billion pieces.
The forecast of the number of smartphone users (in millions of units) in Russia according to statista.com
The market for a smart home is truly huge. Startups like SmartThings, Nest, bought by Google, Wink, and many others have certainly attracted attention with their solutions, but there are companies that have taken a completely different path: their goal has been to give old mobile devices a new life.
Instead of developing a ready-made “polished” product, they offer you to take old mobile devices and tablets lying in your home (probably forgotten and not needed by anyone), and turn them into a camera for surveillance, a smart thermostat and whatnot. just by installing the app.
Manything is a free application that turns your old iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch into a security video camera. Thus, at your disposal is a video surveillance device with motion sensors, the ability to send push-notifications and emails.
Beise from Wise Labs does not turn your smartphone into a camera, but gives the device based on Android, iOS or Windows the ability to control the thermostat. After installing the application will only find a way to fix the smartphone on the wall.
The Rico device doesn’t need a smartphone, but when you connect one of its old devices to it, Rico turns into a powerful home hub. Rico has motion sensors, smoke, temperature, humidity and Internet access. The smartphone also allows you to significantly expand its functionality, providing access to speakers, microphone, HD-camera, 3G-connection, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Obviously, the smart home has an amazing future. A large role in its definition will play the mobile industry. Smartphones are among the most common consumer devices in the world, and a large number of people are already familiar with their capabilities. Mobile devices are always at hand, and therefore ideal for the role of the interfaces of smart home devices.
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