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CNET News - A robot that vacuums while keeping an eye on the house

2014-11-12
what things is trying to make it easy for anyone to turn their home into a smart home most popular uses are things like pizza mine so watching over your home from wherever you are on your phone or saving sort of automatically turning things on or off when you come and go or lots of little life conveniences we've got more than 7,000 devices have been integrated with the platform more than 12,000 apps of different sorts the house can automatically know when I arrived home and it could do that based on knowledge of my presence from this wearable device so even without my phone like can know that I'm I'm arriving home can unlock the door automatically the kitchen is the heart of a lot of homes and so smart things can connect to all of the appliances and a lot of things that might happen in the kitchen the Samsung refrigerators integrated into smart things and so it can know very simple things like the smart things can know if the refrigerator is open or shut or what the temperature is the refrigerator can act as a notification center so if something's happening in the house like the laundry is done it'll let you know somebody at the front door and then other things like you can receive a phone call you know without getting your phone out of the plot of your pocket and receive it right here on the fridge so another example of going deeper into the smart home is connection to the common appliances like the like the washer and so you know this is it is those things that related to convenience and savings so maybe you want to automatically have it run when your leave the house for the day so it's not running when you're there or another examples this has got a reservoir and it where you pour all the detergent and it only it'll automatically meters it out and they'll send you a notification when you need more once a month or something like that so another fun use cases things like even like a robotic vacuum being integrated with the platform and so this could of course do the little things like you know clean up when you leave the house this is got an integrated camera and microphones and can move around the house so maybe instead of just being a vacuum it might be a roaming security device for a couple hundred dollars somebody can outfit their home and if common things go wrong whether it's security and they're away from home or like moisture or smoke or a kid not getting home from school they can know about that from anywhere you
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