Our company in the first quarter of this year celebrates 30% increase in demand for its products, and most market players, including distributors and system integrators, predict that in the next five years the Russian market market will grow average rates by 25% per year.
Who needs a smart home?
The growth of the interest of Russians to the smart home is obvious, but not everyone understands what it is. Half of customers who come to us need to explain exactly how automation technology can solve their daily problems. They have a need for housing management, in optimizing their life, but as it can be done, they do not yet.
As part of a smart home, they see an intercom with a video surveillance and a fire system, but this, of course, is not so. These are just scattered engineering elements, and a smart home is the connection of all subsystems, centralized lighting and air conditioning, heating, access control, video surveillance, control of gas leakage and water leakage, autopoligating and curtain control. And all this is carried out using a smartphone. The number of subsystems that can be included in the smart home is practically unlimited.
Such a complexity of modern housing and creates a need in a smart home. There were too many electronics and daily processes around us, which need to be rationally build up, to connect with each other, control.
An intelligent house is a corpulent stage of progress, the evolution of housing, he is a direct consequence of all technical innovations surrounding us in modern homes and apartments.
Let's imagine a large country house in which family lives with children, in it 7-10 rooms. Returning to sleep, you need to follow, whether the light and air conditioning are turned off everywhere - imagine how much energy resources will be spent in vain, if this is not done? Here and help the scripts of the smart home - automatic shutdown by time, for example. And you do not need to walk around the house and turn off everything manually. Or the "all left" function: the owners leave the house, and all electrical appliances are safely disconnected.
That is, the larger area of \u200b\u200bhousing, the more systems inside it, the more obvious the benefits of a smart home. And also an important argument - savings. On average, the "smart" systems lower costs in the consumption of energy resources by 20-30%, and the experience of our projects says that in full force the smart home begins to "work" on the square from 100 square meters.
Professional equipment for a smart home lives about 10 years, and then requires replacement due to moral wear. The average cost of equipment is a thousand rubles per square meter. In the house or apartment of 100 square meters, the smart home will cost from 100 thousand rubles. And now you can imagine how much on average it will pay for itself, saving 20-30% of the cost of thermal and energy monthly. According to our calculations, the full payback of the smart home on such an area is a period of from 3 to 5 years.
And who do not need?
Most likely, the smart home you do not need if:
- You have a small apartment with a small number of functional zones (one bathroom, one kitchen and so on).
- All switches are within walking distance, you are not difficult to follow the energy consumption: on your own turn off the light and turn off the electrical appliances.
- You do not need to provide remote access to the apartment for children, relatives, workers.
Not a very smart home
Most Russians live in small apartments, so the value of a smart home is not obvious for them. Recently, this began to actively use the suppliers of "sets in the box". They are selling telecom-operators, Russian startups and Chinese electronics manufacturers.
"Kits in the box" are simple devices for managing individual functions in the apartment: temperature, turning on / off light bulb, out of water and so on. The owner of the house sends an SMS or activates the function in the application, and the radio signal transmits the message to the device.
We call such kits "Prober of the Smart Home": they solve separate tasks in apartments and as a whole can simplify specific household processes. Install these kits can be independently, professional engineers are not needed for this. Those who buy them do not have a real need for a smart home. And the owners of large houses and apartments will never buy "kits in the box", because the integrated tasks of the smart home "Probes" cannot be solved.
Smart home market in Russia
The Russian smart home market looks like this. According to our estimates, approximately 50% are suppliers of foreign brands (USA, Germany, Austria). In most cases, their equipment complies with the standard KNX or EIB / KNX. This is high-quality, but expensive equipment for premium segment in real estate.
20% of the market occupy Russian brands, some of which, in our opinion, are only masked under independent producers and developers. In fact, their equipment is taken from the range of different Chinese manufacturers and issued for their own.
The real development and production of integrated integrated systems "Smart House" in Russia is engaged in units. It is quite simple to distinguish real manufacturers - according to the presence of patents and development departments.
The remaining 30% is the most "kits in the box", inexpensive, simple and with the service life of 1-2 years.
The cost of Russian technologies "Smart Home" is many times different from the cost of foreign equipment, they are much cheaper. The cost of Russian equipment does not include excise taxes and import duties, transportation, mark-ups of several wholesalers, foreign development costs, salaries of foreign engineers - and they are high enough, it is worth recognizing this. This explains the difference in the cost, which, judging by the last drops of the ruble exchange rate, will only increase.
Residential real estate will be "clever"
A typical buyer of a smart home - a man over 30 years old, as a rule, working in IT, or somehow differently connected with this sphere. He has a higher technical education and hence the habit of trusting modern technologies, integrate them in their lives.
The Russian guild of realtors recently published a new buildings market research. They note that the share of comfort-class housing is growing throughout Russia, and projects on the integrated development of territories - the construction of economy-housing on the outskirts of cities - on the contrary, collapses. With this factor we can associate further growth in the demand of technologies "Smart Home".
High-class housing owners are more interested in centralizing management of all life support systems in their apartment.
It is important that the developers of the developers are "doserly" to the smart home. Many of them are ready to integrate the basic variants of "smart" systems under construction: automated lighting groups, access control, automatic data collection from meters, heating control, water leak control, security and fire alarm.
Such a "smart" filling of the apartment allows developers to stand out against the background of competitors, improve their status through working with innovative technologies and stimulate the staging real estate market.
Filter retelling of the humorous work of Mat Honan (Mat Honan), published by him in the American magazine Wired, in which he in a humorous manner recreates the picture of the life of the "happy" owner of a smart home. And if you believe the forecasts of scientists and analysts, after five or ten years this house will be every wealthy consumer. According to Honana, especially joyful and calm such life you will not call.
The author of the story offers a regular scenario reader in a smart mansion. It begins with the fact that a resident of the "smart" house awakens early in the morning, having heard the sounds published by pillows, which play the invigorating rhythms and wink the built-in light music. The alarm clock, too, at this time begins to play something of his own, not quite coinciding on the topic with executable pillows with works. Here with this cacophony sounds and a new day begins for the main character.
The owner of the house already in the middle begins to suspect that the attackers may have established the Malware virus into the management program to ensure the work of the "smart" house. And all this due to the fact that he did not install the corresponding patch that has not yet come out. As a result, the whole street on which his neighbors' smart houses are located, plays the most incomprehensible music and flashes with all the colors of the rainbow. It is good that part of the musical works of the owner of the house managed to contribute to the "Black List" service Pandora.
True, it turned out that the virus began to take photographs when the owner comes out of the shower room, and began to place them on Facebook. Although it is just a trifle compared to other deviations in the functioning of the "smart" house, before that manifested. So, in 2022, some kind of virus turned off throughout the street in all smart houses the water just for Christmas and at the same time turned on all the irrigation systems - it was really sad, although the creator of maliciously ideasically planned to cheer it all.
After such an early awakening with pillows and alarms, a "smart" house decides to make themselves coffee and goes into the kitchen. He had to do the coffee in the old manner, since the smart coffee maker had to turn off. It began some failed, it began to periodically go online to participate in DDOS attacks on the game server, located in Singapore. And all due to the fact that the virus was climbed into the operating system at home, thanks to which now smart housing sometimes someone from unknown hackers use how botnet.
In 2020, the owner of the house installed the operating system for a house compatible with Android, as various interesting applications and accessories were sold to it at that time, and the design itself was the best in its segment. But then it turned out that the new corporate smartphone is incompatible with the current operating system for the house. Now you have to constantly carry the tablet from Google, unsupported by new firmware and software. And then the doors themselves began to open when they want, so the owner began to think that instead of a smart key to embed the usual English lock.
It also found that in many of these devices in the Nexus Home system, proprietary connectors are used, as well as chargers, and this is also not very convenient. And recently, DRONE from Amazon stopped for some reason right to park and the result was struck by the device for drying clothes.
When it all started with a simple NEST thermostat and automatic climate control, many seemed to many that the future was perfect and cloudless. Each company produced a gadget for managing smart apartments or mansions, seeking to exceed everyone else. True, it turned out that everything began to define the company that the first began to control the "smart" house.
Then, the SmartWall infrastructure has also released to manage and ensure compatibility, connecting all sockets and climate control to it, refrigerator control systems, watering colors, taking into account dishes. And also different biodivers, filtering systems, stereo systems, control of drugs, parking machines, simulators. Many and the other - you do not remember. And who then thought that a new agreement between Samsung and Microsoft would lead to unpredictable consequences in ten years?
«좋은 아침 입니», - welcomes the owner in Korean Electric ovenWhile he warms his dinner on the induction plate, and the owner sleeps sleeping "조용히" to her in response.
Over the past ten years, a number of devices failed (it turned out that things tend to break even in a smart home), and now the house serves a strange company from devices on different operating systems. It is not possible to achieve normal work, but what to do - you need to adapt: \u200b\u200bafter all, reinstall all the software, and even change most gadgets - too expensive pleasure.
On the road from the kitchen in the direction of the room, the house suddenly "pleases" by the owner with flashes of LED indicators and welcomed by the exclamation: "Congratulations, you have completed the daily rate of steps." Recently, the house so often began to remind about this rate of the distance traveled, which had to install it in twenty-steps a day, in order not to listen to permanent reminders from the sofa, armchairs and televisions about the need for a run or walk, even among the nights, to ensure the required standard guaranteeing Good health and many years of life.
With a cup of coffee, the sleepy master of the smart home sits down at the table. It includes a stereorate, reads news. Nothing interesting in them is not from boredom, he turns the heading of ads for the sale of houses not subject to update. They even do not even have a simple charger for an electric vehicle, no smart technique inside. But the man, having kicked up coffee, continues to dream of buying some completely meaningless and very "unreasonable" house.
Light. Opened automatic blinds. Independently turns on the smart toaster and shower in the bathroom, welcoming the owner. There is a new morning in a smart home on smart street.
Moscow discussed the threats to the development of the "Internet of Things" and modern approaches to cybersecurity
May 23-24 In Moscow, a key event of the cybersecurity industry was held - Positive Hack Days, organized by Positive Tecnologies. It was attended by about 5 thousand experts who discussed the main trends and data protection issues. This year, one of the main problems of analysts is called the development of IOT - the "Internet of Things". I visited the event and the real-time correspondent.
Analysts predict that by 2025 the main "users" of the World Wide Web will not be people, but smart devices. For example, smart televisions and multicookers with Wi-Fi control, surveillance cameras and elements of a smart home. Positive Technologies experts made up the top 5 most dangerous devices that have access to the Internet.
First of all, it is the heart of the entire home network - a Wi-Fi- or 3G-4G router. Monthly in these devices experts find up to 10 vulnerabilities. Developers, in turn, do not rush to eliminate them - in pursuit of cheap devices, the router firmware may not be updated, and on testing and safety manufacturers save.
True, the most vulnerable element of the router remains a user. As Positive Technologies experts found out, from 100 devices for 15 passwords never changed from factory. So, to get into its "brains" and can be programmed any actions.
Analysts predict that by 2025 the main "users" of the World Wide Web will not be people, but smart devices
Surveillance cameras are not less vulnerable. These devices are more rising to business: about 90% of those that use small and medium enterprises, have critical vulnerabilities. Hand in the office through the video surveillance cameras, a hacker can, practically without an effort.
Navigation and wireless control also turned out to be a good target for hackers. To demonstrate this, experts Positive Technologies decided to play fockers - translated hours on cell phones right in the pockets of the audience and installed fake GPS coordinates, confusing telephone navigation. And if now the navigator failure, by and large, threatens only unmanned aerial vehicles, then on unmanned cars, the hacker can make a lot of trouble. Resetting time and date in turn makes invalid sites security certificates, opening space for cyberak.
Continuing focuses, safety experts intercepted the wireless keyboard signal. At one time, hackers used keyoggers programs that recorded all keystrokes and sent the owner. With the development of wireless keyboards, it can make an operator sitting at a distance of up to several hundred meters. And the cheapness of the equipment is about 300 rubles - threatens mass espionage.
"The generals are always preparing for the previous war. Internet things are only a consequence of the problem. The main problem is technological debt accumulated by IT companies. The first victim of the race race is security, and in an attempt to create a competitive price of the company, it is for it, "Artem Gavrichenkov believes the chief engineer of QRATOR Labs.
Artem Gavrichenkov: "The generals are always preparing for the previous war. Internet things are only a consequence of the problem. The main problem is technological debt accumulated by IT companies "
Drop the hole in the perimeter of security experts offer, starting from the head. No measures will save the user who does not change the router password and will open suspicious links. Also, experts are considered, the state should develop standards for certification of applicants to sell devices that would include the requirements of the required level of protection.
Wannacry: how many times the world
The presentation with such a heading was announced by the head of the Positive Technologies cybercrimal investigation department Alexey Novikov. Wannacry malfunction is only one of the list of hundreds of such programs known to humanity. Virus, encrypting data or placing unifailable banners on the screen and requiring money for the "treatment" of the computer, is hardly a peer of the Internet.
Wannacry has become known only due to its wide geography and scale of attack. What is interesting, the beneficiaries of the program did not even write it, but simply found on the Internet and produced "sowing". The vulnerability that the virus exploited was known in March. The distribution fell those users who properly updates their computers.
"In principle, the initial vector of distribution using the vulnerable port on the perimeter is a very simple, very easy way. The attacker prevented anything to complicate the exploit and ... infect even those organizations that perimeter is protected, "said Alexey Novikov.
Alexey Novikov: "Honestly, I doubt that the attacker will cash this money. It seems to me that the goal was not money, otherwise he would have come up with a more sophisticated delivery mechanism and receipt "
For the same reason, the expert doubts that the purpose of the distribution of the extortioner program was money. Responding to a question, it is difficult if the funds received by the hacker, Alexey Novikov suggested that, oddly enough, someone is unlikely to do this:
"Honestly, I doubt that an attacker will cash this money. It seems to me that the goal was not money, otherwise he would have come up with a more sophisticated delivery mechanism and receipt. Earlier, we observed precedents when the attackers used this vulnerability, but their activities were limited to using server computing power. At this, the attackers earned much more than on Wannacry and even withdrew money. In principle, it is possible to monetize it, but in the case of Wannacry, I doubt, "the speaker concluded.
During the forum, the thesis "No Patch from Human Nepigation" sounded repeatedly. For his refutation, Acronis took up, which offers users cloud solutions for data protection. Their essence is that the company's product periodically makes backups, with which you can restore the data on the computer and the smartphone until the infection, up to the icons on the desktop. In addition, a function is built into the program that detects the Ransomware at the time of infection and blocks its distribution.
"Wannacry infection statistics itself showed that companies rather negligently refer to software updates. The patch was urgently released in March, a rather long time has passed since March. They suffered those companies that did not have time or did not want to be updated for some reason ... The main problem is precisely in the image of thinking, in responding to news, leakage, trends, in organizing the work of the internal IT services and information security services, "- I am sure the division manager Standardization and risk management of Acronis company Yulia Omelyanienko.
Yulia Omeliannenko: "Wannacry infection statistics itself showed that companies are quite negligent to updates to"
One of the main tools for the spread of malicious software as a whole, experts call social engineering. This is the use of standard human behavior patterns, with which attackers convince the user to voluntarily load malware on their own computer. How many times during the last month you received letters, where the non-existent grandmother left you an inheritance in a million dollars, which can be obtained by clicking on the link? Or tried to download "free, without registration and SMS" a book from a suspicious site. And SMS with a proposal to watch your photos on a suspicious link?
You can fight social engineering, increasing the technical literacy of employees, I am sure Yulia Omelyanienko:
A person who is less technically constructed, and will be the target for attacks.
Stalingrad-online
While the speakers told about cyber security, in a separate room there was a real battle for the city between the representatives of the hacker elite and IT security services. A cardboard-plastic settlement with hundreds of virtual residents, transportation, plants, traffic lights, shopping malls, CHP, banks and railways gave the hackers. Managed the city the same systems that can be found in the metropolis, the layout was needed only for clarity.
The goal of hackers was to earn as much as possible gaming money. For example, one of the teams intercepted SMS of the mayor of the city, which contained compromising, which earned 150 thousand "Publes". The hack.ER team was able to steal the money of SIP-telephony users: hacking accounts, hackers received money with paid calls to short numbers.
A cardboard-plastic settlement with hundreds of virtual residents, vehicles, plants, traffic lights, shopping malls, CHP, banks and railways were given to the plundering of hackers.
"Malefactors" managed to stop the CHP and the oil industry - hacking the corporate network, hackers revealed controllers who use the organization and were able to stop the work of enterprises. The wines of the whole "underwear" administrators of the organizations, which were spoken at the IoT meeting: The Wi-Fi router was protected by a default password, not cleaned administrators. Vulnerability, to eliminate which the sisadmin would need a minute, disabled the entire industrial complex of the city. Hackers turned off the supply of energy to the CHP, it ceased to serve steam to the oil refreshment, because of which it stood.
Under the cover of the night, hackers made a grandiose theory: almost 4 million "Publes" were stolen from the bank. For this, they previously stole user data, which made it possible to hack the system of remote banking services. Another team of hackers took advantage of the compromised data of bank cards, removing from each 10 "Publes". In reality, such an attack would remain unnoticed, but would bring income to attackers. The largest theft led to the economic crisis, forcing the organizers of the competition to carry out the additional issue of "Publes".
The PhDays organizers made the reservation that the city model is an ideal system for hackers. In reality, attackers have fewer resources, and specialists in protecting more opportunities. However, this model is enough to give to understand: a modern hacker can fade a lot of troubles, hacking the banking system, leaving the whole city or creating chaos on transport.
A new threat is also creating "Internet of things" when the "smart home" can turn against its owner. Look around - maybe your refrigerator and coffee maker are already preparing a plot against you?
Sensors of the Smart House work according to one principle: transmit a signal to Wi-Fi to the base module, a box size with a home router. The base module enters the Internet and communicates with the smartphone. You can manage all sensors through a mobile application from everywhere where there is a network access.
Why the sensors themselves do not go online, why do you need a base module? Many sensors. Imagine that ten people came to your home, and everyone connected to Wi-Fi. Some networks will withstand some - no. Add devices family members - smartphones, laptops, stationary computers, tablets ... To serve such a loaded network, you will need a personal system administrator, as in the office. The base module distributes the channels so that radio waves, on which all electronic devices communicate in the house do not interfere with each other.
Water leak sensors, opening and closing doors, smoke, depressions and motion sensors are connected to a central module, which via the Internet communicates with you through a mobile application.
Here are five functions of the "smart home" capable of making life easier and more pleasant.
1. Remote control over sockets
And I turned off the iron?
Buy the iron that turns off myself. Take a picture of the iron, leaving home. Check out all sockets. Call households and neighbors, ask to check. Or put a "smart" socket. She looks like an adapter. If you suddenly doubted that the plug was released by leaving the house, you can break the chain by several passes on the smartphone screen - and surely save the house from the fire, and yourself - from unnecessary worries.
If at home children, "smart" socket becomes even more useful. It will help when the smoke sensor (it can also be made part of the "smart home", it will be discussed later) works in the room where electrical appliances work. The house is far away, you are at work or on vacation, which happened - it is unknown, but you can remotely de-energize the room. Balsam per soul.
The white adapter with the LED is "smart" socket. It is managed from a mobile application: one press button, and the socket is de-energized.
Some "smart" sockets still save you money. They work as a meter, whose indicators you see in a mobile application. Does the device wind up too much kilowatt? Turn off! Conveniently, if you, leaving with giving, forgot to turn off the warm floor or other energy-intensive device.
2. Fire alarm
You have something burning
Fire alarm is complex and expensive. A smoke sensor connected to the Smart Home system is simple. It is attached under the ceiling, in five minutes it connects to the database and works 12 months until it is time to change the battery. The sensitivity is adjusted so that the siren does not turn on from the burnt bolet or cigarette smoke burnt in the pan, but he felt a serious smoke. If the room fills in smoke, you will learn at once: alerts will come to email and push notification, and in the room will conquer a loud siren.
Wireless smoke sensor connected to the central module will warn about smoke wherever you are.
3. Water leakage sensors
And we did not poured neighbors?
Third main fear of housewife - water leakage. Unreliable junction of pipes, weakened the crane, and just a crowded bath. Or your apartment is empty. And what if heating was already given, and the battery flowed? Put water leakage sensors in the most insidious places. They do not react to small splashes, only on serious incidents. The notification will come to the mail and will be displayed on the screen. True, the sensor will not be able to do nothing with the leakage - you have to go and save everything. But it is better to do it as early as possible.
Additional bonus: leakage sensor make wireless. Wires and water are poorly compatible things, and they are prevented under their feet. And the wireless device with the size of the cake "basket" can be fixed anywhere. And do not forget to change batteries.
Water leak sensor notifies you about trouble-leaking pipes and a crowded bath.
4. Opening / Closing Sensors
I closed the door?
Going out of the house, turn the key and jerk a handle a couple of times: this habit will help not worry about whether you left (or forgetful guests and children) all the latch. But in order not to rely on the rapid human memory, you can put a magnetic closing sensor or door opening sensor. Then notifications will come when the door opens or closes. The same can be done with windows. The main thing is to turn off the sensor per day when you are waiting for a lot of guests.
Even if you never forget to close the door, the sensor will be useful to check the children.
5. Cameras, motion sensors
Follow and guard
If in the 90s your neighbor had a chamber mounted in her eyes on a heavy iron door, then your neighbor was a difficult person. Now the camera can be put with much less effort and costs than twenty years ago, and it does not look as if you have a currency suitcases in your bedroom. Cameras, microphones (and cameras with a microphone, and even with a speaker) and motion sensors can be connected to the "Smart Home". Adjust the motion sensor so that it reports the movement of a person, but ignored the cat. You can record, but you can watch Live - just like that, just in case. Modern "smart" cameras have a passive mode: they begin to record only when they feel movement. Some cameras are seen at night, in the infrared range.
A small Wi-Fi camera is watching everything that happens around, and talk around the clock. She sees in the IR range - and therefore, not only during the day; Most of these devices have a microphone and speaker.
Pleasant trifles
Not vital, but pleasant functions of a "smart home"
Motion sensor put not only for security purposes. Recently, Muscovite Konstantin Konovalov lowered such a device in the mailbox, and now notifications come to his smartphone when the postman brings a receipt to pay for utility services or postal notice. Or the latest number of "Popular Mechanics" by subscription. Some singers put a portable home camera over the pots, in which dumplings are boiled - to see how they pop up, while they themselves relax in another room.
Smart lamps are light control from the smartphone screen. Adjust the color, even a child can turn on or off.
Starting optimization, it is difficult to stop. You can stick in a pot with flowers humidity sensor and do not forget to water. You can install in the children's "smart" air quality controller and do not forget to ventilate. In the same way, moisture can be monitored. And last: "smart" light bulbs are eliminated from the need to get up to turn off the light. This can be done without releasing the smartphone from hand.
"Smart Home" is a remote control to all electrical appliances in the house. Some possibilities make life a little more pleasant, others save from serious household problems. The Russian market "smart" consumer electronics is not very developed. One of the pioneers is a megaphone company: it offers "Security" or "basic" kits, which can be supplemented in accordance with personal preferences and needs. In each set, the control center and it is compatible wireless devices - cameras and sensors; However, you can choose individual devices to your taste.
What "smart House"? About him are stitching at every step, but seed it. Accessories manufacturers aggressively use this shortcut, and we, ordinary consumers, submracting with it "the keys". Editorial website I decided to clearly delimit the two segments of technologies, withdrawing from there two completely different trends. Will be fooled!
Recently, we began to actively follow the theme of the "smart home" and receive requests for devices that are often attributed to it. In this regard, we decided to prepare a small but the appearance of this topic.
What is a "smart home" and why it is not yet
Let's close your eyes for a moment and say this getting marketer with marketers. "Smart House"! What do you imagine at this moment? Ten-fifteen years ago you would remember futuristic cinema: where the windows are neurmed by themselves, where light and climate are supported by an autonomous system with artificial intelligence, where coffee is preparing for the morning in advance without your participation and so on.
This is a smart home. Today he is not futuristically futurist - and Reaen is one hundred percent. That's just he will not appear by itself. You must initially consider such a project at the stage of laying the foundation of your future home. Or do this in the apartment before overhaul. You will also need a very substantial amount of money, because such solutions require the involvement of professionals, installation and deploying specific equipment.
In short, the "smart home" is when everything is cool and beautiful, as in the movies, but for mad money and a bunch of time. In the next five years, in part of time and money in Russia will change a little. As long as the real "smart home" is only trying to make his way into the masses, all majer marketers build effective advertising campaigns on this immense word. As a result, the consumer himself sits and does not understand anything.
Thanks to the efforts of the media, in the consciousness of modern gickers, a smart home is light bulbs. Philips Hue., Sockets with Wi-Fi Module, Weather Sensors Netatmo., Sensor sets Lapka. etc. But in reality, it is a device of a completely different format that keeps up with a trend called "Internet of Things", Iot..
What is IoT and why he is now in trend
IN Iot. There is a special class of purely consumer devices, which themselves cannot be the basis of a "smart home", but we will confess similar ideas. The phrase of the "Internet of Things" implies two key elements of this trend: ordinary items that can connect to the network. In the perfect world, these items should also exchange data with each other.
Roughly speaking, Iot. - This is a coffee maker that has an application for the iPhone and prepares coffee at the same time with a bell of alarm. IoT is a set of light bulbs. Philips Hue.which change the color and brightness of the world at the request of the owner. This is the same set of sensors. Lapka.measuring the environmental situation around. And many, many other existing and future gadgets connecting to our iPhones - for the sake of data demonstration or function management.
Share "Smart Items" format IOT and "Smart Home" becomes necessary for a simple reason. The largest companies in the world in the coming years will be furious and producing products that meet the tasks IoT. The development of modern technologies made the reality of "smart refrigerators" and "Toasters with Wi-Fi". Each of them is interesting in vacuum of their capabilities, but their installation in the house will never make the last "smart".
This is the difference. You can buy a basket of smart accessories, but none of them be it together, or separately - will not be an element of this "smart home".
How really looks like a "smart home"
First of all, the "smart home" is not a set of "smart light bulbs", but the central "brain", which monitors and manages all communications in the apartment, climate and electricity. The key element of the real "smart home", about which everyone dreams is its software and technical platform. It is this "base" it connects at the lowest level to your pipes, electrical panel and heating system to manage it.
There are a lot of such low-level control systems. For example, there are promising software solutions - for example, environment Apple Homekit.which in the future will combine all "smart coffee makers" in a single and truly efficient network, exchanging data with each other. But without the central management system, these conversations will not follow meaningless marketing.
The "smart houses" management systems are far from being so highly advertised as "sockets" and "light bulbs", but they exist, and many dozen years have been developing and developing. Many of them are very expensive, as they include a fine tuning of software and specific computer components, plus various sensors, communication equipment and much more.
Thinking, editors website I tried to search in Russia such companies that offer actually working systems to create a "smart home". We were especially interested in those that are suitable for the question with a purely Russian, impenetrable side. So that you can put easily, quickly and for centuries. And desirable for a penny.
Ordinal Russian "Smart Home"
The company responded to our request Etostostroyoffering a special solution for our country: see "Smart Home" in Russian, impenetrable and adapted to our harsh realities. Their system does not depend on the availability of electricity in the house. She does not need the Internet. It works with the highest reliability and does not require further investments, and is able to ease life and prevent a local man-made catastrophe.
: Behind the temperature in the pipes, for boilers, for the supply of electrical energy, behind heating devices and many others. And not only tracking, but also office. The entire system works through the GSM network, does not require the Internet in any form and processes commands via SMS messages.
Example. You are sitting at work, 50 kilometers from your country house. Have not been there for two months. What if he was so stolen? Suddenly he had a problem with the heating system? Suddenly turned off the electricity, and you are going to go there tomorrow with guests? Ectocontrol idea is to immediately notify the user about the situations described above. That is what allows a person to take the necessary measures on time: to come on time and eliminate the problem before it causes critical consequences.
Or another example. You are traveling to the country. After leaving the house, send a technical message to your Ectocontrol station, which starts the heating system in the house. Come to warmth and comfort. They rested, came out, closed the gate - sent a message on the shutdown of the system or operation at a reduced temperature. Pipes remain warm, the house does not freeze to the end, and you always know what temperature is in it.
Etostostroy And his team attracted us with enthusiasm and the fact that their product differs from the market existing on the market, in places of unique qualities. Instead of describing the capabilities of the system in a nutshell, we decided to go further - and go to shoot the Ectocontrol system installation process.
In the coming days, we will tell you how one of the most promising systems of the Russian "smart home" works. For now - do not make yourself fool. "Smart Home" can and ends on a "smart lamp", but it does not start with it;)
