Smart Homes: Innovating the Way We Live

Smart House (Home)

Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................3
2 MAIN BODY...............................................................................................................................3
2.1 History of Smart Homes............................................................................................................3
2.2 Present Smart Homes.................................................................................................................4
2.2.1 Features of Present Smart Homes.......................................................................................4
2.2.2 Benefits and Drawbacks of Present Smart Homes.............................................................5
2.2.3 Effect on the Society...........................................................................................................6
2.3 Future of Smart Homes..............................................................................................................7
3 CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

1 INTRODUCTION
With the immense innovations, growth and change in the technological industries in the
digital age, new, exciting and innovative technologies have been created which have the
potential to drastically change the way human beings have lived for their entire existence. One
such technological innovation that has become popular recently is of Smart Homes. Smart homes
integrate together various advanced automated systems and IoT devices for all electrical
equipment and machines in the house such as temperature control, lighting, heater, TV, fridge,
radio etc. with the intention to automating their use for their owners even if they are not present
inside the house (Stojkoska and Trivodaliev, 2017). This makes the homes ‘smart’ as it can
effectively be run by systems and devices that are fully automated which can be also be manually
controlled by the owners based on their preferences and requirements. In addition, smart homes
also provide its owners and residents with significantly increased security as the smart home is
capable of recognising the authorised individuals who are allowed to enter the home and is able
to record information about external forces that try to break into the smart house for nefarious
purposes through webcams, CCTV cameras and microphones.
2 MAIN BODY
2.1 History of Smart Homes
Though the application of smart homes is only seen nowadays, through its increasingly
popular use amongst consumers, it has been in development for quite a long period of time. The
concept and idea for smart homes began with the creation of remote controlled devices by the
great inventor Nikola Tesla in 1898. Then throughout the industrial revolution of the 1900s
increasing technological innovations paved the way for the kind of smart homes that we see
today (Fernandes, Jung and Prakash, 2016). Between 1901 and 1930, as most home appliances
that we see today were developed and increasingly adopted by the urban populations such as the
refrigerators, TV, radios, vacuum cleaners etc. innovators looked for ways that would make these
devices automated and remotely controlled as had been shown by Tesla. Throughout the decades