Today’s houses are well equipped. We have just about everything that opens and shuts, from mobile phones and security systems automatic garden watering etc. But what would you say it your electric stove or oven could be turned on and off remotely or may be turn your house lights and security system on or off, and of course one can look around your garden all from an office computer to your mobile phone. This is called’ smart’ monitoring. Everything we do and purchase today has smart technology incorporated. We can turn television sets on and off by voice activation if needed, by remote control from our phones. We can monitor our electricity and water usage as well which allows us to be thrifty with usage. We communicate with each other so easily; send each other messages, photographs, documents etc. If you look at some of our factories and bakeries that make bread, they almost run themselves. We have remote applications for just about everything.
We can go even further and let all these devices access your timepieces or electronic clocks. Once these are integrated virtually, anything can be programmed according to you likes and dislikes. You can get up in the morning and find the garden watered, tea made, the bread is toasted the security system has disengaged to let you proceed to the kitchen without activating the security system. However, these are domestic things and fall into the category of smart home monitoring systems.
That of course, is not all we have. We have the internet, the world at our feet so to speak. Without the Internet, our means of communication would be severely affected. Our mobile phones would not be able to send batches of photographs, messages and a hundred-page document abroad. Of course, our mobile phones or cellular phones have their own communication system, wireless, which, although improving daily is extremely expensive between countries. So, this system is limited to a certain extent in what it can do UNLESS, it connects to the Internet, which it does, wirelessly. All these things canbe bundled together and referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). We order food online, we pay for it online and we have self-drive cars, still in their infancy but nevertheless, they are there and becoming more sophisticated. Who makes all this work correctly?
There are companies such as Camcom Technologies amongst others who provide a lot of the interfaces for these products we purchase. They advise us what to purchase depending on what applications we need. Without a fairly sophisticated wireless system in our home these things would not be possible as the remote communication would not be present. Some smart home devices are still in their infancy and there is no telling what is coming next. They earnestly urge us to become a ‘smart user’ as we would rather know of an event such as a fire at home or a flood etc. before or when it happens so that we can take the appropriate action
Yes, the IoT (the internet of things) is getting large and more complicated all the time. Time to make that change to a ‘smart’ home before we are left behind.
