A question of costs and benefits: Kemet's opinion

According to David Adeeb, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Kemet, in order to achieve its full potential, Smart Home technology must be affordable, scalable and offer immediately understandable benefits.

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David Adeeb Kemet

In many cases, costs are a brake on the implementation of home and building automation systems. A reflection on the subject comes from David Adeeb, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at KemetDavid Adeeb, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Kemet, says that to achieve its full potential, smart home technology must be affordable, scalable and offer immediately understandable benefits. This is the case with solid-state lighting, which has clear benefits for the environment and for consumers' household budgets: "Smart lighting is easy to install and easy to scale. Getting started can be as simple as installing a smart bulb and a mobile app. The investment is low, the commitment is minimal and more lights can be introduced depending on needs and budget." Adeeb doesn't stop at lighting, however: "Smart homes will be full of sensors to monitor not only light, but also room temperature, occupants' presence and their proximity to smart devices and appliances. A simple and effective way to detect presence and proximity, allowing devices to activate only when needed, saving energy and enabling an enhanced user experience, is infrared sensing."

Of course, we are still a long way from perceiving as indispensable a refrigerator that, with multiple cameras and internal sensors, can show us the quantity and condition of food by signalling, via the smartphone, whether we have enough food for a guest at dinner, but, as Kemet's manager says, let's not forget that smart technologies can also create better products and services for the care of the elderly and frail persons: "The ageing population could lead a more pleasant and longer life if certain tasks could be entrusted to robotic assistants such as those that have proved successful in industrial environments. Why not apply them to domestic roles requiring strength or manual dexterity that an elderly person might have lost? An intelligent home, after all, should take better care of its occupants than they can do on their own.

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