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The words "A home without
housework" were emblazoned on
the doorway leading into a futuristic residence at Britain's
"Home Economics" pavilion at the Venice Architecture
Biennale a few months ago. Another British housing
prototype showed transportable, Wi-Fi connected spheres
built to convey the concept that you can live anywhere you
can get online.
In Berlin, Panasonic created a smart home ecosystem
called "a portal to the future," which includes not only traditional connected appliances, but also cloud services to display
recipes on demand, an all-in-one laundry system that can
wash, dry, fold and store clothes and linens, and sensors to
warn about glass breaks, water leaks and power peaks -
wherever you are.
What's more, at the Tokyo House Vision exhibition,
in a dozen prototype houses, innovative approaches
to energy usage and plumbing abounded. Pre-charged solar
power guest tents using technology based on Toyota's electric
vehicles were shown as an efficient lodging solution for the
2020 Olympics in Japan. Reflecting new lifestyles involving
delivered groceries, "Inside-Out" installations include a
refrigerator placed on an outer wall of a home so that an
express delivery company can place chilled or frozen foods
directly into the device when no one is home.
That falls into the category of "everything old is new again."
It's a big upgrade from the days of dairy routes, when many
houses had an insulated bin where the milkman placed early
morning deliveries. Today's version includes an app that
alerts homeowners of the delivery and provides a security
check for the device.
Meanwhile, industrial technology is finding its way into
the smart home. For example, Siemens Corporate Technology
has unveiled an innovative frequency selective window
coating that can improve mobile reception in moving
vehicles, such as trains. From there, it's a short step to cars
and to stationary home windows. In other words, windows
become antennae for over-the-air signals.
Consumers are ready to buy into the long-promised
concept of home automation. For its third annual Life
at Home report, retailer Ikea surveyed 12,000 people
worldwide. About one-third of respondents called reliable
Wi-Fi an important home feature; in Shanghai that figure
jumped to 49 percent.
The Ikea report confirmed that "the idea of people
watching TV (together) on a sofa is dead. That's changing
because of the rise of mobile devices," Ikea says.
And the 2016 Houzz Smart Home Trends Survey, conducted in collaboration with CEDIA, found that when
families renovate their homes, they are more than twice
as likely to add a smart system or device (51 percent after
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