Smart home and TV

The concept of the smart home can dramatically change our views on the organization of everyday life in a modern apartment or cottage. Today there are about a dozen technologies, home automation, and modern smart home integrates all engineering systems, providing control for heating, electricity, air-conditioning, security and water supply, creating a comfortable environment for humans.

The smart home market is constantly growing and evolving. According to forecasts Statista.com the value of the global smart home market will grow to $58 billion of that amount just under $10 billion will be the market share of home entertainment. As for Russia, in 2016 the Russian market of smart home entertainment systems is estimated at $16.6 million, with an average annual growth rate of 43.41% $70.2 mln in 2020.



The volume of the market of the smart home in 2014 and 2020 in billions of dollars according Statista.com

Entertainment multimedia system have long been part of our lives. Home theater is a common phenomenon, and it can be found in almost every apartment. A home theater includes one or more sources of sound and images sound system, plasma TV, LCD TV or projector screen.

Making cinema system part of the smart home, gives you the ability to control all this equipment with a single remote control or touch panel. As the last could easily be a smartphone. It is only necessary to install a special application.

Thanks to the integration with smart home, the user is able to program the execution of certain scripts, for example, giving the command "movie", home, name, access servos, will automatically close the blinds and dim the lights in the room. Moreover, a smart home linked into a whole home theater, CCTV, alarm, lighting control, temperature and water supply. In this case the TV will act as a kind of news station.

In this regard, the great popularity was received by the Smart TV, which is a popular trend for startups in the field of TV, as it allows to implement many innovative ideas in the new wider market. According to J'son & Partners Consulting, in 2013 the world was sold 234 million TVs, according to Strategy Analytics, 76 million of them supported the Smart TV functions.

By 2017, the available Park of Smart TV in Russia will reach 29.8 million installed devices, which will be 22% of the total fleet of TVs. Also in 2017 will be sold 7.2 million Smart TV, and 78% of all sales of flat TVs.



Park of Smart TV in Russia, according to GfK and J'son & Partners Consulting

At the end of last year it became known that Samsung intends to turn the whole line of Smart TV 2016 "smart hubs". Televisions will be created in the SmartThings platform, which will allow you to manage a large number of smart devices, including lights, locks and thermostats.

Thus, customers will be able to use the TV as a controller for the smart home. You can easily view the status of various sensors and integration with video surveillance systems will allow you to display images from the cameras directly to the TV screen, for example, at the moment, if the motion sensor working in the yard.



"The lineup of Smart TVs in 2016 will offer customers new opportunities and will strengthen the leading position of Samsung in the market as the first company that started the TV, ready for IoT," said Hyun-Suk Kim (Hyun Suk Kim), the President of the division of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics.

To keep up with his competitor tries LG, which confirmed that its webOS platform also has found application in the field of intelligent home. The IoTV application on Smart TV from LG will be able in this way to manage the connected devices. Again, this means that you can adjust the lighting brightness or to "tweak" the temperature of the air conditioning directly from the menu of the TV.

Often component is the smart home multiroom system, allowing to transmit video or audio from a source to multiple TVs or speakers located in different rooms. In this case, the devices in the room melds into the zone and get your individual set of custom playback options. The system is controlled via remote or touch panels.

The system allows the reception and distribution terrestrial and satellite TV in all rooms, as well as to distribute other streams of digital data at home. Smart home efficiently uses capabilities of satellite and cable television, allowing the display of multiple channels on TV sets placed in different rooms.

If you touch the situation in the audio segment completes, it recently came to light DIY-multirom able to spread the audio signal over Wi-Fi. Such devices are designed to simplify scanning of intelligent systems. Today on the market there are many famous producers – Harman/Kardon, Monster, Bose, and LG and Sonos.



Sonos allows you to collect simple network of audio devices, without using control equipment. Options of combining the individual devices in the multi three. First – all the speakers are connected to the router and use it as a hub to communicate with each other. The second is to connect one audio device to the router with a cable and create a wireless mesh network.

So gadgets will be able to exchange information with each other, transferring data along the chain. The third option is similar to the second, but with the router not connected column, and a special device that creates a wireless network.

Interesting is the fact that multirom not impose special requirements to the playback devices both audio and video. The only condition is compatible with the interface over which the signal is transmitted. Therefore, as the output device may be any plasma screen or audio system, which does not have its own "smart" software. published

 

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