Wireless Electronics
Connectivity for the home: the growing consumer adoption
The connected home represents tremendous opportunity for growth and innovation. Whether you call it the connected home, smart home or home automation, the home ecosystem is a hub of activity for connectivity and sensor solutions. These solutions are creating new ways for us to interact with the systems and devices in our homes while at the same time generating new consumer value in the form of energy savings, improved system and appliance performance through smart home data analytics, and new use case development through device-to-device communication. This is leading to a new level of convenience, and it enables the opportunity to bring value added time back into our busy lives. Terrence Murphy, strategy & business development, TE Connectivity tells us more
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he connected home is defined by its streamlined functionality. At the touch of a screen, on our smartphone or tablet, we can now control almost every aspect of our home. Because of advanced sensor and wireless technology, we can receive push notifications from our washing machine that alert us when it’s time to change clothes to the dryer, replace the water filter in our refrigerator, remote start a device or home system from our place of work or car, auto-control security and environmental conditions in the home, monitor appliance health and function, and optimise energy usage at a device level. This degree of connectivity allows us to
turn alerts and events into actionable time and money saving results. Whether it’s a home appliance alerting us to its energy use or our heating and cooling system auto adjusting based upon external weather conditions, smart connectivity in the home allows us to take steps to optimise energy usage. The coordination of device-to-device operation for the “if this then that” scenarios allows for automation of routines and tasks in our homes, which is here now, leading to new levels of convenience for the homeowner.
Much like we see in our automobiles
today, we will see smart applications in the home making operating recommendations to the homeowner to optimise performance or extend device life through maintenance recommendations based upon data being captured while the device is in operation. Just as with our automobiles, none of us like when a system or appliance in our home has a maintenance event. Post failure remote diagnostics of major home appliances have been with us for some years now. But what if we could tackle the maintenance event before it occurred through smart diagnostics which monitors machine health and measures the performance of the
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assemblies and components within the appliance or home system when in operation?
Smart and real time diagnostics of major home systems and appliances can give consumers insight to which component within the system may not operating properly and proactively schedule the maintenance if needed before failure or even right the issue themselves. Manufacturers and service companies can reduce maintenance event truck rolls, have the right part on the truck to solve the issue for the customer on the first visit and gain valuable insight on how their products and the systems within them are performing. This is all enabled by reliable and smart connectivity.
Smart functionality in the home moves us beyond just being connected to truly being smart. This leads to time and financial savings for the homeowner. This natural
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evolution from being connected to being smart will revolutionise the way we interact with our homes and the systems, appliances and devices in it.
This innovation is not driven by company size or location. Rather, it is a mindset around exceeding or anticipating the needs of the market. That concept is key to all TE Connectivity (TE) sensor and connectivity solutions. The goal is to drive the most comprehensive, highest quality connectivity solutions in the market; and be a partner across the connected home ecosystem to companies large and small. Remote and wireless communication is key for many connected home functions. For an alarm clock to talk to a coffee machine and make that perfect fresh cup, connectivity products must be reliable time after time. To achieve meaningful energy savings, temperature sensors in living rooms must continually operate with precision.
TE’s portfolio of custom and standard antennas, paired with our sensor and connector solutions allow for reliability, connectivity, and efficiency in the home. These reliable connected capabilities drive value by saving time and money for consumers. They will be key to driving demand and mainstream consumer adoption. When consumers buy a connected device, it must be easy to setup and use. Equally important, each component within in the device must work consistently or the device is useless. If that device doesn’t deliver on its promises or use convenience, consumers will lose faith and hesitate to purchase more connected devices for their ecosystem. We’ve seen this adoption phenomenon time and time again. When an innovative new product is released it has a short time in which it will either prove itself or fail. In the instance of a recall, the failure can sometimes be heard round the world. Many times, this is caused by one single part malfunctioning. Unfortunately, recalls such as these can have ripple effects throughout the entire connected home ecosystem and spill over into other use cases. It reminds us that every part, no matter how small, plays a big part in the future of the ecosystem and market. While mainstream adoption may still be years away, we know this market is poised for growth. It represents an important opportunity for consumer product manufacturers from devices to appliances, security and lighting to deliver products that are differentiated with smart functionality and connectivity that drive value.
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