Week2 - Future

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As part of group D, I had to read on about topics such as HVAC, sensors, AI, Database and future. I found an article that encompasses a lot of these terms. The article is called “A home Automation primer” taken from PCMag.com. It was written by Eric Griffith and published October 17, 2012. This article talks about the future, HVAC, sensors and even databases in some ways. It narrates how the thought of controlling your entire home from the palm of your hand is something that we have taken from futuristic movies and brought it into our daily lives. These technologies already exist around us, things we would only see in movies as little kids are now commercially available for common household use.

Following the rise of the TV remote, this wireless technology has continued to grow and people can now control, lights, HVAC systems, garage doors and even common household appliances. I realize that these systems are not as common right now, even though they’re available, they are still pretty expensive. This is because the technology still has a lot of bugs to fix such as better battery lives, or simpler devices to make it family friendly. I believe that when the companies working on these devices find ways to make this product cheaper and more easily accessible, then we will see their popularity sky rocket and we’ll begin to see every house we walk into have one of these systems.

Continuing with the topic of home automation I found an article called “The year in Robots, 10 home robots to lighten your domestic chores”. The article was written by Bob Tedeschi from the NYTimes.com on Dec 24, 2014. The article touches on topics such as future, and sensors. It was predicted that 2014 would be the year of a home robot revolution where people’s daily chores would mostly be taken care of by robots. Even though this wasn’t exactly the case, 2014 did see many interesting robots. Most people have heard of the vacuuming robots, but these are getting better and more technological every time. There’s a robot that cleans the grill after you’re done using it, another one is designed with sensors that will film you or whoever you want doing some sort of physical activity such as sports.  Another robot was designed solely to clean up the cat’s litter box. There is a lot of potential for this market to grow and I’m excited to see what will come to the market in the next couple of years.