Are 'Smart' Devices An Illusion?
An Entrepreneur, Product Marketer & Senior Executive with 19 years of hands on experience, Kumar has helped multiple companies ideate/design and create products which have turned in 5X returnsCan a plug-point be anything more than it is right now?
Can it be art? Can more layers of utility be added to it? Moreover, can it be tweaked to even optimize the function it was supposedly developed for? Enter interior technology, a domain that deals with optimizing conventional electrical engineering and frameworks to make them efficient, cost-effective, multi dimensional, sustainable, in effect, truly `smart.'
Consider this From just the winds to hand pulled fans, ceiling fans, coolers to ACs, we have come a long way in our desire to be 'cool'. Throughout the journey, the aim was to maximize the convenience of residing in a temperature controlled environment. Convenience being the keyword here. However, some where in the process of developing the sleekest, powerful ACs, we forgot about important factors such as the amount of power it is consuming, the ease of its use, repair and maintenance and environmental sustainability.
This drawback extends to almost every device that surrounds us today. In our sole focus on enhancing convenience, we forgot to pay attention to other integral factors which together constitute making a device, component or framework ideal. Professor RaduZlatanovici, Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley in his paper 'Power Performance Optimization for Digital Circuits' says, in recent years, power has become the most important limiting factor for electronic circuits.' A shift in design paradigm is thus required, as just increasing the clock frequency does not cut the cake when it comes to talking about performance at a much deeper level.
Interior technology aims to remove this drawback and optimize the entire culture of electricity consumption by introducing or reimagining devices
that are augmented across dimensions without compromising on the core aspect of the feature.
The limitations of smart homes and IOT
For long conventional appliances have been single component centric and the rest of the elements mostly played a supporting role. This same principle, albeit at a much grander level applies to the smart home concept raging globally. While it connects machines machines the ultimate determinant is how well the single machine that engages with the man performs. As a result, entire focus is on this device resulting in a lack of symmetry. There is a lack of co-operation amongst the machines as well, as different brands have diverse communication standards resulting in stilted interaction. This difference in interior coding and hardware also creates a hindrance in repair and maintenance, incurring high costs. Internet-of-Things(IoT) the broader concept which Smart homes is a part of, suffers from similar limitations. In order to make these individual appliances and consequently the entire network of smart homes truly smart, interior technology's intervention is required.
Looking at the interiors of Interior technology
Graphene screens, borophene sensors conductive fabrication, glass atomizer, grid lined networks, gallium nitride products spatial designs based on origami, these are just a few elements of the vast world of interior technology. The scope is huge, since it deals with not only how different devices are connected in a network, but what goes on within these devices and what they will be able to do at the end. For instance, power tracks is an element that reimagines the humble old plug points and gives it a whole new dimension altogether. It comprises a continuous long track of power outlets that can run across a room or any space and support upto 25 devices at a time, providing people an option to charge their devices at the exact spot they are at! It solves the basic problem of conventional power sockets that of being stationary. However, power tracks also solve other concerns. They can be easily integrated in existing power frameworks without the least bit of 'wall breaking' leading to cost efficiency.
Interior technology is a fluid, continuous concept that keeps analyzing components and mechanisms to keep adding to their abilities. As a result it involves sustained research, and a flexible attitude that needs to attain balance of priorities. Interior technology treats every individual component as elements that can be optimized and can add to the efficiency of the entire mechanism. Therefore, it requires a certain common currency or language to be developed amongst various machines which is some thing as fundamental as every spark of current or the 0s and 1s in the coding language. Having a common exchange medium between machines that can transfer each other's messages in the most effective way while spending minimum energy is a recurring exercise of interior technology. It is a dynamic function compared to existing smart homes static nature, and as such, can be self-repairing after a point. If a machine knows to analyze itself it will be able to predict problems at the earliest, and convey existing problems immediately. This is what is called being 'smart'.
The limitations of smart homes and IOT
For long conventional appliances have been single component centric and the rest of the elements mostly played a supporting role. This same principle, albeit at a much grander level applies to the smart home concept raging globally. While it connects machines machines the ultimate determinant is how well the single machine that engages with the man performs. As a result, entire focus is on this device resulting in a lack of symmetry. There is a lack of co-operation amongst the machines as well, as different brands have diverse communication standards resulting in stilted interaction. This difference in interior coding and hardware also creates a hindrance in repair and maintenance, incurring high costs. Internet-of-Things(IoT) the broader concept which Smart homes is a part of, suffers from similar limitations. In order to make these individual appliances and consequently the entire network of smart homes truly smart, interior technology's intervention is required.
Interior technology is a fluid, continuous concept that keeps analyzing components and mechanisms to keep adding to their abilities
Looking at the interiors of Interior technology
Graphene screens, borophene sensors conductive fabrication, glass atomizer, grid lined networks, gallium nitride products spatial designs based on origami, these are just a few elements of the vast world of interior technology. The scope is huge, since it deals with not only how different devices are connected in a network, but what goes on within these devices and what they will be able to do at the end. For instance, power tracks is an element that reimagines the humble old plug points and gives it a whole new dimension altogether. It comprises a continuous long track of power outlets that can run across a room or any space and support upto 25 devices at a time, providing people an option to charge their devices at the exact spot they are at! It solves the basic problem of conventional power sockets that of being stationary. However, power tracks also solve other concerns. They can be easily integrated in existing power frameworks without the least bit of 'wall breaking' leading to cost efficiency.
Interior technology is a fluid, continuous concept that keeps analyzing components and mechanisms to keep adding to their abilities. As a result it involves sustained research, and a flexible attitude that needs to attain balance of priorities. Interior technology treats every individual component as elements that can be optimized and can add to the efficiency of the entire mechanism. Therefore, it requires a certain common currency or language to be developed amongst various machines which is some thing as fundamental as every spark of current or the 0s and 1s in the coding language. Having a common exchange medium between machines that can transfer each other's messages in the most effective way while spending minimum energy is a recurring exercise of interior technology. It is a dynamic function compared to existing smart homes static nature, and as such, can be self-repairing after a point. If a machine knows to analyze itself it will be able to predict problems at the earliest, and convey existing problems immediately. This is what is called being 'smart'.
