IOT home automation – Smart homes and Internet of Things

With the establishment of international of things (IOT) concept and the development of 5G, ipv6, etc., some companies or organizations are starting to put IOT into reality by embedding IOT chips and functions into furniture such as LED light and door security lock. Due to the size limit of the chips inside the furniture, only those chips with very basic specs can be used. Consequently, data collected by the sensors inside the furniture have to be uploaded to the cloud for calculation or analysis. Plus, people want to monitor and take control of their house even when they are out. As a result, cloud services such as IOT hub and servers must be deployed to make it possible for people to receive and send data from or to the house. However, IOT is a quite new concept. Its industry is still immature at present. Not all of the protocols are suitable for IOT devices, which forces companies to cope with those protocols in a very complex way in order to make a product which can be widely used. In this article, we summarize and discuss about the industry of IOT furniture and its mechanism, by giving a few examples to see the current ecosystem of IOT-related industry and the technical problems companies still need to face.