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SMART HOME ASSISTANT KIT PLANNING & PROPOSE
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Trend of Smart Home Technology always comes from human nature, At current, smart home is booming in global information technology markets trend, There’s no place like home, especially if it’s a smart one. the Smart home technology promises to make your living space more comfortable, more convenient, and more secure. Who wouldn’t want to live in a place where the refrigerator makes the grocery list and the house warms up before you arrive? The idea of an automated home has been around since The Jetsons aired in the 1960s, but the reality of an interactive home came about in the last 10 years. As technology has advanced, the options have become more affordable a n d h o m e ow n e r s h ave st a r te d s co o p i n g u p h o m e n e t wo r k i n g s o l u t i o n s , domestic technology products and other gadgets with which to ride this new wave. Now the Internet of Things (IoT) is making a smart home smarter t h a n a n yo n e c o u l d h a ve ex p e c t e d a n d m a n y h o m e o w n e r s w a n t i t a l l . So, what exactly constitutes the smart home market? For many businesses, these
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consumer prospects are interested in devices that connect directly or indirectly to the internet via a gateway in order to monitor, control and regulate functions in their homes. Add to that the IoT (Internet of Things) aspect of communication with other devices and you have an intelligent home configuration. Also, the part of this market landscape includes subscription fees for external services, apps and cloud-based monitoring solutions. The market for connected home products has seen significant growth in the last few years and the predictions are positive for sustained increases. According to a study by McKinsey, the compound annual growth rate of smart homes is 31% in the U.S. Furthermore, the State of the Smart Home Market: 1Q 2017 estimated that consumer spending will increase to $53 billion worldwide by 2020.
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Problem now Facing The Smart Home Kit now ont the market almost have least one of problems following: 1. The central controller is useless and without interaction with user: All smart home devices should have a central controller in home. But is the control useful? Google Home, Apple Homepod, Amazon Alexa try to turn it in a speaker, and Xiaomi make it as a gateway box. All solutions of them is not close to user, and also provide information passive. 2. User's digitial privacy problem: It is some privacy problem that some company will store user's privacy data from smart home ecosystem, and nobody knows that how the data would be used privately. So, we propose the new plan about it, not just to solve problem; we want to redefine smart home. Let me introduce about, Smart Home Assistant Kit.
Our Solutions Two main functions of our Smart Home Assistant Kit are Smart Mirror and Smart Sensing System.
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Smart Mirror Other than being a central controller, smart mirror providing various information from our daily life. For example, display time, calendar, to do list, appointment activity, news and current affairs...etc. At the same time, we also display the environmental information like location, weather, temperature, and humidity. On the other hand, we will add the voice assistant in order to get the voice feedback from user and add the Gesture sensing system, selecting the information from the Mirror by untouched.
Smart Sensor Kits In the first part, we are going to provide indoor environmental monitoring, detecting the indoors temperature, humidity and the quality of air condition. Second part is Smart home security, contains a c c e s s c o n t ro l s ys t e m , D o o r a n d w i n d ow switch abnormal monitoring, carbon dioxide concentration and toxic gas detection. The last part is Smart home devices control. P rov i d i n g vo i c e /p h o n e c o n t ro l s t h e a i r conditioning and light switch.
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Tech Detail Setup & Connection This Smart Home Assistant Kit's is a Wi-Fi based ecosystem, within connect every part of Kit to your home Wi-Fi, all Kit will setup automatic and work fine; you even do not need to open any app or run any setup procces, just enjoy your smart life.
Hardware Hardware of smart mirror is composed by a double-mirror, an OLED screen and Raspberry Pi. Via using OLED, it can save more power but also vividly. Raspberry Pi make the part of hardware more cheap and easy to fixed.
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