The Smart Home

Whether it is about the heating, the lighting or the security of your home – especially in 2017, more and more young companies increasingly focus on solutions and devices to make our homes more intelligent and our lives more comfortable. We got the 3 most interesting German start-ups, focusing on the topic of smart home, you should keep an eye on in the future. Tado – The intelligent radiator Wouldn’t it be convenient if your radiator anticipated your thoughts and habits for example by automatically lowering the temperature if nobody is at home? Or by increasing it when you are on your way back home from work? With the help of the Munich start-up tado, you can now turn your radiator into an intelligent smart home device. Via a smartphone application, the tado thermostat tracks exactly where you are. If you are not at home, it decreases the temperature in your apartment. When you are on your way back from work, it increases the temperature to a desired and ...

The Internet of Things is undeniably taking over our lives. A 2015 Gartner study estimated a 5.5 million daily increase of IoT devices and, according to Machina, there were already 6 billion of them around the world in 2016. The same goes for the category of smart home devices: they constantly amaze us, simplifying our lives with such ease. However, caution is required to avoid a trade-off between a smart and a safe home. Since we are considering a physical space, using a certain software or device might lead to much heavier consequences that go beyond leaking information; it might come to hackers gaining access to our own home… So, what are the security risks that come with a smart home? There are a few aspects of Smart Home technology that may constitute a security hazard for the user. A lot of this software, to be interconnected, customized and allow at-a-distance use, has permission to communicate with and control different devices of one’s home, such as lights, doors or ...

What if you could control all your home appliances with a single touch of your finger? What if your home can anticipate your needs? Are you sure you really know what it feels like to be at home ? The ans wer to all these questions is a Smart Home. A smart home is a combination of different technologies in which the home devices are interconnected and controlled through applications even when no physical presence is required. This may seem very complex but in reality it can save your day: Let’s imagine it’s summer and you are leaving from your office back to your home. You have to walk all the way back and the only thing you really want is to relax. In order to do so, all you need is your smartphone. You can turn your air conditioner on before you reach your home. Once you arrive there, you are hungry and you want to get a shower too. Thanks to your application, you can start your oven and be sure to get the food ready in a short time while you ...