Reasonable home from IBM and Vodafon. Start

Recently, the concept of the Smart Home has been steadily gaining popularity in Russia, and, more recently, it was the prerogative of luxury housing, now it is available to the middle class. Moreover, the Smart Home is becoming not only a fashionable trend, but also one of the ways to save money. Companies that install such systems claim that home automation systems can save up to 80% of electricity, heating, water and other resources.

At the IFA Consumer Electronics Show, held from August 31 to September 5 in Berlin, IBM and Vodafone announced a collaboration aimed at combining mobile communication and cloud computing technologies for remote control of smart home devices.
Companies intend to demonstrate how a smartphone can remotely turn on a washing machine, control lighting, heating and many other intelligent home devices.

How it works?

Household appliances in the house connects to the Vodafone Global M2M Platform telecommunications platform, which connects previously isolated machines or devices wirelessly to the Internet. Vodafone M2M technology (Machine-to-Machine, Machine-to-Machine Interaction) is working on a new platform for cloud computing services SmartCloud Service Delivery Platform from IBM. As a result, with the help of a smartphone, a person will be able to view data on utility consumption, control heating, lighting, burglar alarm systems, and also remotely start home appliances, such as a dishwasher.
The IBM and Vodafone initiative will also be able to give manufacturers and suppliers additional information about how consumers use household appliances, which will help improve products, improve maintenance and improve service quality.
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According to Mark Testrayra, head of M2M Global Business Development at Vodafone, today the smart home solutions market is already a reality, and the partnership between IBM and Vodafone offers a secure, open standards-based, efficient and scalable solution for the consumer electronics industry that will accelerate the development of the “Internet of Things”.
We look forward to further developments.

PS A small video from IBM on the topic of intelligent machine interaction :)