Why Smart Home trend is rising?
Since the beginning of this year, the global pandemic, COVID 19, made us try our best to enhance and improve our homes as we spend 24 hours at home almost every single day. Even though, staying home all the time is superrrrrrr hard…but it is crucial to keep yourself and your love ones safe right? Being locked-down at home is a significant reason that contributed to the rising trends of SMART HOME in this year.
What is smart home?
Smart home is an Internet of Things (IoT) application…It is when you connect, control, automate, and optimize functions of your home, such as security, lighting, temperature, entertainment devices by your phone, computer, or tablet, especially through WiFi and Bluetooth.
It is a emerging trend…
As the research data shows that the market value of smart home devices is projected to grow by more than 316%, which will be resulted in $174 billion in the year 2025 from $55 billion in 2016. That growth also makes it foreseeable that the smart home technology in nowadays will be further enhanced and developed in the way beyond our imaginations in this near future.
Plus, the data from security.org, which is one of the smart home security providers also shows that 91% of their customers currently have 1 smart home device in possession as minimum, with 64% of them are planning to buy more devices in 2021. The information reflects that having smart home technology makes you want more!
Not only that…staying home reality also contributed to the growing trends of Voice Assistant usage is also increasing. Since PYMNTS’ data reveals that 23 million people are currently using Voice assistants to buy stuff. The number is 42% increased from 2018 and 10% from last year.
Why do people love smart home technology so much? Here are some benefits..
First, you can protect your home and belongings in the more convenient way. For the reason that the technology allows you to turn off smoke detector or even plugs remotely, as well as the “always on” connection, which will notify you immediately if anything happens.
Second, you can keep your eyes on your kids, parents, or pets, even though you are far away from them. Since you can install functions of video monitoring, motion detecting, and even automatic door locking.
Third, from the automatic door locks, you can answer your front door from anywhere as part door bells can send an alert to your smartphone whenever someone is at your door.
Lastly, smart homes help make your energy and electricity more efficient. Because lights and air conditioning in your home can automatically be switched off when no one is in the area.
There are five interesting key trends that we can expect to see in smart home technology in the late 2020 and near future, reports Forbes
1. Every device will be more standardized
The big players in the industry, such as Apple, Google, and Amazon has cooperated and teamed up with each other, in order to come up with the set of standards, which will make smart home functions easier, simpler, and safer integrated solutions for customers’ needs.
2. The technology will actually be “smart”
With the help of machine learning technology, smart home is able to adjust itself according to the behaviors of people who are living in the house, through the process of observing and duplicating the behavioral pattern. Plus, Al technology at present, especially “facial recognition” is being used as a one of the features in security system. Including a refrigerator that can predict ingredients that are needed to re-order automatically.
3. The betterment of in-home healthcare
Smart home’s healthcare feature can help inhabitants achieve the more healthy lifestyle, through keeping track of their nutrition, activity levels, and quality of sleep. It can notify the caretaker when an elderly falls or has an accident inside the house. AI technology even offers a feature that can diagnose certain types of illness.
4. The existence of robots in our homes
I think everyone is familiar with vacuuming robots but in the near future, robots can help more than that, including our daily routine of chores. Plus, those robots can help ensure and monitor the safety of an elderly or disabled with the function of alerting and calling for help.
5. The faster network is coming
As 5G data is available throughout the world, along with the advancement of WiFi6, those technologies help connecting every smart home device in a faster and stronger networks, which will definitely lead to the improvement of data accessing and processing between your smartphone and smart home devices.
