THE FUTURE OF THE SMART HOME LIES IN COMMUNITY.
THE FUTURE OF THE SMART HOME LIES IN COMMUNITY.
Technological innovations have smartened the home with features such as voice-controlled virtual assistants, stock-taking fridges and remote-controlled window blinds for homes. What’s the next phase in intelligent living?
According to Justin Deimen, individual residences will be connected to form a community – an eco-system created by realestate developers for a particular group of consumers.
“These developers will also become distributors of content, controlling and disseminating content to a captive audience,” he adds. The group managing partner of Aurora Global Media Capital, which specialises in investing in new media technology and entertainment, predicts that this will be realised in five to 10 years’ time, thanks to affordable smart home gadgets.
Information and data from each residence will be analysed to enable more efficient living. Shared grocery purchases and standardised deliveries within a neighbourhood, for example, will help cut costs.
For commercial brands, such setups allow direct access to consumer habits. What distinguishes public and private information will become increasingly hard to define.
