Future of Smart Systems

Main Findings: The fate of “smart systems”
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By 2020, the connected household has become a model of efficiency, as people are able to manage consumption of resources (electricity, water, food, even bandwidth) in ways that place less of a burden on the environment while saving households money. Thanks to what is known as “smart systems,” the Home of the Future that has often been foretold is coming closer and closer to becoming a reality.
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By 2020, most initiatives to embed IP-enabled devices in the home have failed due to difficulties in gaining consumer trust and because of the complexities in using new services. As a result, the home of 2020 looks about the same as the home of 2011 in terms of resource consumption and management. Once again, the Home of the Future does not come to resemble the future projected in the recent past.
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1. There’s movement toward such systems, but they are complicated and they may not come together anytime soon

2. Smart systems are already on the way to people’s homes; we have made and will continue to make good progress.

3. A key to successful adoption of smart systems will be the difference they will make in energy costs and environmental sustainability

4. Smarter systems will be a boon to health care, providing benefits especially for the disabled and the elderly

5. People desire simplicity, not complexity. Our grandmothers have to be able to understand these systems and they are not yet ready for that.

6. ‘It’s the economy, stupid’; smart systems are not affordable for most today, and people’s minds are on other issues when it comes to change

7. A key driver will be incentives or mandates; some say this is not likely to happen, at least not in the United States

8. Some are concerned about centralized control and how that will supersede individual choice—and fill the coffers of service providers

9. Consumers are satisfied with things as they are and it’s hard to retrofit old construction; this will limit adoption of new systems by 2020