the situation using your mobile phone, through security cameras, any
time, anywhere. Also, you can forget your keys sometimes. Why would
you want to use metal keys when you already have a perfect key with
you? Smart home has iris scanner and fingerprint scanner as your
keys. Hence, with smart homes, you will never worry about your keys!
The smart home of today tend to use your personal devices to double
up as remote controls for your home. iPhone, iPads and Android
phones and tablets allow them to act as remote controllers of the
home. Everything of your home can be controlled with the device in
your pocket.
These smart homes are expensive and currently they are limited only
to a handful of enthisists. But companies such as Google, Amazon
and Apple are trying to make devices for average customers such as
Google Home, Echo and Apple HomePod, which are capable of trans-
forming the homes into smart homes.
Those products mainly use voice command to control home and work
with artificial intelligent systems such as Google Assistant, Amazon
Alexa and Siri. Also, they are not that much expensive gadgets, so
average customers can buy them. With all those integrations, the
smart home concept is becoming more and more realistic and more
and more available for the average customers. With time, we can
expect that the home will make your morning cup of tea and also it
will welcome you after a long day of work with a hot shower.
N.K.B. Lakshan. Madhushanka Bandara
First Year
General Programme
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Apple homepad, google home and amazon echo
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