Let’s create a scenario. It’s the morning of a workday. You are scheduled to be at work at 9 a.m. The home assistant running on your HomeKit HUB, checks with your digital scheduling assistant what’s your program for today. It also checks with your digital health assistant, running on your phone, getting the information that you’ve had a rough night and are probably not very well rested. Checking with the car’s digital assistant, it finds out that there shouldn’t be any traffic problems this morning. With this information, it decides to wake you up a little bit later than normal. (Perhaps you’ve set a rule that in case you’ve had a good night’s sleep, you want to be woken up half an hour earlier so you can get a short, intense workout in before going to work.) You are woken up by the lamps slowly turning on and the blinds being opened as the morning news start playing on a screen in the bedroom. As you jump into the shower, the coffee machine starts making you a fresh cup of java. When you’re sitting on a bar stool in the kitchen, having breakfast and looking at your schedule for today, the car starts warming up, because it’s a cold winter morning, and it knows you’ll be out in 15 minutes. In case you’re are not showing signs of leaving the house, the car assistant will get the home assistant to gently remind you that it’s time to leave for work.
As you leave for work, the house sets itself in an “away” mode, with the lights turned off and the heating turned down. It knows the car will let the home assistant know when you are on your way back home.
Does this sound like science fiction? Couldn’t we do most of this today? What do you think the smart home will look like in 10 years?