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5.1 Applications of IoT (Smart Home)

Introduction:   

Internet of Things has applications majorly in all fields such as agriculture, consumer use, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, utilities/energy, wearables, security, hospitality and grid or energy saving.


Description about Smart Home:

Let’s get a glimpse of IoT in Consumer use (Smart Home). Smart Home, let its residence lead their life more comfortably.


Lighting:

  • When a person enters the room, the lights can be turned on and off if the person leaves the room automatically without the necessity of pressing the switch.
  • All smart lights can be connected to the smart-phone and can even be voice controlled.

Kitchen:

  • Sensors can check for gas leaks, smokes and can send an alert to the end-user via an SMS or a buzzer, and feature an exhaust fan that gets activated once the gas or fire is detected. The fan aims to push the air outside.
  • The smart refrigerator can send a report about the list of vegetables that are running short of it.
  • Ovens can be preheated to the degree that the user wish with voice commands. For Ex. "Alexa… pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees".

Safety and Security:

  • Safety sensors identify anything wrong in the home.  For example, person entering certain places of home at certain time, or someone breaking the doors can be detected and can alarm, send a notification can even call the police directly.
  • No more double checks or doubts whether the doors and windows were closed or if that motor/heater was off. Users can check their home safety remotely through an app on their phones and can control them.

Smart Alarm Clock:

  • Turning on the bright light suddenly, can disturb one sleep. There are smart alarms that emits light similar to natural sunlight which gradually switches its brightness from low to high. 
  • When the alarm reaches the time that you set, the light will be with max brightness and will let you wake up as natural sunlight does along with a pleasant alarm tone.

Smart Garden:

  • Sensors can check if the plant is adequately hydrated and can turn on (or) off the smart irrigation system thus optimizing water usage. Let’s discuss more about smart farming in “IoT in Agriculture blog”.

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