If youÔÇÖre thinking about buying or renovating your dream home, you might want to wait a few years ÔÇô as the technology enabling your property to make all your decisions for you could be on its way!
Future technology could take decisions about what to eat, what music to listen to and even whether to turn up the heating out of homeowners’ hands, instead using habit recognition to make independent choices for them – and saving them money!
According to home technology experts Finite Solutions, homes of the future will revolutionise the way we live, programming our living habits for the good of our wellbeing – and our bank balances. Smart gadgets will make decisions without ‘user intervention’ (that’s human thought to you and me!), with typical family homes connected by 500 devices!
Finite Solutions director Simon Mathieson believes that in just seven yearsÔÇÖ time, small wrist devices to be worn around the home will ÔÇÿpairÔÇÖ themselves to a┬ápersonÔÇÖs heartbeat, enabling it to automatically adjust the lighting and room temperature and even play music based on pre-programmed choices.
ÔÇ£According to world leading IT research company, Gartner, a wide range of domestic appliances will become smart in the sense of intelligent sensing with the ability to communicate and control the environment wirelessly,ÔÇØ said Mr Mathieson. ÔÇ£There will be no passwords; the future will be at biometric authentication with a strong protocol behind it.
ÔÇ£Using biometrics, the smart home of the future will decide on when to wake you up based on your schedule and sleep quality, and offer what to eat to promote a healthier diet. Sensors in the house will use fingerprints, body temperatures and heartbeat rhythms to differentiate between the family members and adapt to their preferences automatically, for example, adjusting the water temperature in the shower, adjusting the lighting and playing custom music to a personÔÇÖs liking.ÔÇØ
Already, beds are available with integrated monitoring technology capable of telling you how long you slept, how much you moved, the depth of your sleep and your heart rate. This is to be replicated in the bathroom, with showers recognizing body mass and automatically switching to your favourite temperature, whilst a new Japanese invention under development is a toilet that can assess your waste, alerting you when thereÔÇÖs a problem and even book a doctorÔÇÖs appointment!
Mr Mathieson said: One of the biggest benefits of a smart home is the energy saving technologies available. The typical future house will rely on self-generated electricity and intelligently go off-grid when necessary to self-sustain. Lutron is one of the forthcoming companies offering smart lighting solutions and Nest has been one of the dominating companies in the smart home industry with its smart thermostat.
ÔÇ£For the garden, the GreenIQ Smart Hub can be controlled through WiFi devices and can control your watering schedule, sprinklers, and outdoor lighting through a couple of buttons. It can actively respond to changing weather conditions in your local area over a period of time, monitoring the nearest weather station and responding accordingly.
ÔÇ£Ultimately, technology can be extremely practical and when used to its full potential becomes vastly more cost effective and beneficial to almost all family needs.ÔÇØ
Award winners Finite is one of the UKÔÇÖs biggest custom installation firms and last year launched the countryÔÇÖs most technologically advanced, ┬ú1m show home, allowing property developers, architects, designers and their clients to road test high-tech, digital equipment.