Smart houses

Smart homes

Our homes today are smarter than they've ever been before, and they're going to get smarter. we're getting closer to a day where our homes do more for us than just give us a place to rest at night.New technologies provide connection between people and machines, allowing them to ‘talk’ easily to each other.Nobody knows how homes will look like in 10, 20 or 50 years from now. But I have some ideas.

We will have no need to decorate our homes as our walls will be able to display whatever we want them to. We will be able to download wallpaper and change it at the click of a button. Even the windows will be able to display a view; one day a beach scene, the next a view of the lake or the forest.

Your refrigerator will tell you what to buy, cook, and eat.That means you can do things like shop online from your refrigerator and receive recipe suggestions based on what is in your fridge.

Touchscreen displays will be everywhere in your house. touchscreen displays will be on things like doors, dining tables, and other surfaces.

Smart thermostats will let you control your home's temperature even when you're not there. You will use your iPhone to do things like program your home lighting, and turn on or off all of your lights at once.

In the house of the future people are‘ not lost, never lonely, never bored’. Smart homes make life easier and also provide some energy savings.

When you're not home, nagging little doubts can start to crowd your mind. Did I turn the coffee maker off? Did I set the security alarm? Are the kids doing their homework or watching television? With a smart home, you could quiet all of these worries with a quick trip online. Smart homes connect all the devices and appliances in your home so they can communicate with each other and with you.

Anything in your home that uses electricity can be put on the home network and at your command. Whether you give that command by voice, remote control or computer, the home reacts.

2. Ok. Here are a few more examples of cool smart home tricks: Turn on the coffee maker from bed. There are cameras that will track your home's exterior even if it's pitch-black outside. A video door phone provides more than a doorbell - you get a picture of who's at the door. Motion sensors will send an alert when there's movement around your house. Door handles can open with scanned fingerprints or a four-digit code, no need to look for house keys. While most home automation technology is focused on lighting, security and entertainment, smart appliances may be on their way as well. Ideas include: Trash cans that monitor what you throw away and generate online orders for replacement. Refrigerators that create dinner recipes based on the ingredients stored inside.

3. Smart homes obviously make life easier and more convenient. Who wouldn't love being able to control lighting, entertainment and temperature from their couch? Whether you're at work or on vacation, the smart home will alert you to what's going on, and security systems can be built to provide help in an emergency. For example, not only would a resident be woken with a fire alarm, the smart home would also unlock doors, dial the fire department and light the way to safety.

Smart homes also provide some energy savings. The devices can go to "sleep" and wake up when commands are given. Electric bills go down when lights are automatically turned off when a person leaves the room, and rooms can be heated or cooled based on who's there at any given moment. Smart home technology promises great advantages for an elderly person living alone. Smart homes could notify the resident when it was time to take medicine, contact the hospital if the resident fell and turn off the oven if the cook had wandered away.

­4. A smart home probably sounds like a nightmare to those people not comfortable with computers as sometimes you may find them difficult to operate.

Of course, there's also the question of whether an individual needs all this technology. Is our society really so lazy that we can't turn flip a light switch? It's an interesting argument, but smart homes are coming.