Smart house

[ChrisMsofe]

Californian company Qualcomm demonstrated that technology to create smart houses of the future already exists and can be linked up for intelligent living

The August smart lock (pictured) secures Qualcomm's smart house. Fitted to the existing door lock, the battery-powered device is controlled by registered phones or tablets using the August app. It can be connected to smart lights that flash when the door is opened

To open the lock (pictured left), anyone with a code can approach the door, enable their phone's Bluetooth and press the relevant address from the app (pictured right)

Qualcomm's Connected Home shows how almost anything in your house can either be controlled by a mobile, or be linked together. A TV that shows notifications,, smart lighting and a wine cooler with sensors is pictured in the futuristic kitchen

A smart security alarm, such as Canary (pictured) can be connected to smart lights from LiFx

Here, LiFx lights flash to silently alert homeowners to the fact there is an intruder in their home
When someone enters or leaves the house a notification is sent to the owner and the lock automatically closes after 10 seconds to secure the door. The August device will be available from Spring for £119 ($199).

The smart LiFx lights in Qualcomm's demonstration (pictured left) were funded by a Kickstarter campaign. They start at $89 (£53) each and an individual light can be customised to be any colour on the spectrum using an app (right)

Elertus sensors can be fitted to almost any item in the house to detect changes in movement or temperature, for example. A home owner can keep tabs on alerts using an app (left). In the Wine Protection System (right) the sensor recognises when the wine cooler has been opened

Here, sensors alert the home owner that someone has opened the wine cooler in the kitchen

Child's bedroom of the future. A network of devices, lights, clocks and even a smart teddy bear are connected to help a child wake up, or go to sleep

The teddy used in the home was a concept device (pictured) that can speak to children to wake them up, yet similar smart teddies are already on sale, such as Teddy the Guardian from London-based IDX Labs

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