Call Home and Speak to Your Living Room Light
I read with great interest that companies are already well advanced in their preparations for the next stage of development for mobile devices. There are several allegiances forming between mobile phone manufacturers such as Ericsson, Internet providers like Orange mobile broadband and appliance and equipment manufacturers of all kinds of common household electrical goods. When I started reading the article I couldn’t figure out what manufacturers of items such as TVs, light switches and even electric ovens were doing having secret discussions with broadband providers and mobile makers. From what I read it seems that all these companies have figured out that they have a common interest in being linked together. Again I couldn’t see the connection between an oven and my mobile device. But apparently what they intend to do is to allow us to access our household devices directly, are Not via a computer or some kind of terminal. We will in fact call-up our household appliances directly; we will make a call to our TV. The purpose of these direct connections will be to control these devices while we are not at home. Then it struck me how useful search connections could be. Forgotten to turn on the burglar alarm, then you just need to give it a bell and tell it to switch on. Going to be unexpectedly home late this evening, all you have to do is call a your living room light and tell it to come on to give the illusion that you are at home. Or you could place a casserole in the oven and at 3 PM call the appliance an tell it to cook on high heat for two hours then simmer on a low light until 6.30 when you will be home. These are great ideas that I can see having endless other uses once they come online.