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Now with Android you can have a smarter home
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 18:55 IST
Bangalore: Android has been making news for its smartphones and tablets till date; however, it has planned to venture into making your home also as smart as your mobile phone.
This platform called Android@home was introduced at Google I/O conference in San Francisco along with the announcement of a new version of Honeycomb, its next-generation "Ice Cream Sandwich" release, as well as movies, cloud music, and Android accessories like consumer electronics designed to be Android compatible.
The new technology will enable one to control everything, from your lights to your washing machine through smart phone and can transform your tablet into a universal remote for your home.
Android @ home vouches to give a complete turnover to the concept of modern home. Consumers in the future will be able to purchase an Android @ Home to communicate with your Android-enabled appliances, and download apps to control those devices through your tablet or other mobile device. Thus one can control the whole house just from the screen of the phone.
In a demonstration Google showed how Android@Home can take charge of lightning. The platform makes Android the "operating system for your home", so your phone can wirelessly talk to everything in the house that's electrical, from the lights to the washing machine to the TV.
You can turn on your android powered geyser when you are nearing your home in order to enjoy a nice bath as soon as you reach home.
Google also showcased how Google Music works with Android @ Home. User's music will be stored in the cloud and tunes can be played by any device that is connected to the online service, like the Google Tungsten.
The concept of tungsten gathered huge reaction in the conference and the magic displayed by it was breathing taking good. It looked like a non-descript white sphere on stage, next to a pair of speakers. Just a touch of a CD can ripped all the songs to the device and a second touch of the same disk pushed the songs to speakers.