Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Texting Appliances
How would like to text your fridge or even send an internet fax
to the TV? Yes we are one step closer to making our homes smarter. LG
Electronics has unveiled a virtual assistant service that lets customers
text their wireless home appliances through the messaging service LINE;
the appliances made by LG will be enabled with its new, HomeChat
technology. The devices including fridges and televisions will use
natural language processing to understand commands or status-update
requests that owners sent to them through LINE, the one of the world’s
biggest messaging platform with more than 310 million registered users
and counting. The service rolls out in 2014 with LG’s range of smart
vacuums, ovens and fridges and other appliances, LG’s chief technology
officer, Scott Ahn, announced the service at the Consumer Electronics
Show on Monday. Are these smart appliances really solving a certain
problem or just a novelty? For example, Users could also send a text to
the HOM-BOT asking “When did you last clean?” to which it might reply,
”10:50 started cleaning with zigzag mode; 11:30 completed cleaning with
zigzag mode,” according to LG. Text “What are you doing?” to the LG
washing machine and it should reply with details on where it is in the
wash cycle. This made me chuckle a bit.
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I do not think that I would find texting my washing machine that productive. Although many four years will find the communication service rather entertaining.
ReplyDeleteCommunication services that are connected to appliances are not solving a problem. Better software development with these appliances might be something to look into.
ReplyDeleteAre we too lazy to get up and see what the appliance is doing instead of using communication services? Is this really the direction we want to be going in?
ReplyDeleteCommunication services can be used for better things than that. Internet fax should be kept in business.
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