Home cleaning using AI

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Home cleaning can take a toll on you. All over the world people wake up and get exhausted at the fact that they have home cleaning to do. But thankfully we have AI and it is causing quite some revolution even in the home cleaning space. Today, we analyze some of the technologies that have been developed to help in the execution and management of home cleaning activities. From simple tasks to hard tasks that take hours to do, AI and automation has revolutionized home cleaning. We no longer have to wake up hours earlier to do vacuum cleaning or even spend a lot of time doing our dusting and clearing, there are specialized technologies designed to carry out these particular tasks.

  1. Vacuum cleaning

Vacuum cleaning has for a long time become a nightmare to many. Over time, technologies have been developed, automating some aspects of vacuum cleaning, including the revolutionary Vacuum Cleaner, first invented in 1901. It went through several iterations and improvements before it became the gadget we have come to love. However, the Vacuum cleaner had one issue: it actively involved human input and was still quite tiresome to use. In the recent past, however, there have been severe improvements in AI and vacuum cleaning with technologies such as the Neato Botvac D5 and the iRobot Roomba 980 which pretty much automated the entire process. From the smart analysis of the room using optical technology and neural networks to deploying the right execution of the tasks for maximum efficiency, vacuum-cleaning never got better. Although the machines still haven’t figured out proper motion across complex surfaces such as going up or down a flight of stairs, you can still be sure that they will properly do the vacuum cleaning for your room, even in your absence.

  1. Lawn Mowing

We all know how much lawn mowing can eat into your weekend when you should be spending that time hanging out with your family or catching up on the latest shows. This is what motivated the exquisite Robomow to be designed: to give you time to relax. Drawing its inspiration from the phenomenal movie Robocop, Robomow just does that: it cuts down the bad guys (grass) and like Robocop, leaves your yard and you feeling fresh, well-kept, and safe. The most outstanding feature about lawn mowing using the Robomow is just how easily and efficiently it does its work. From Natural Language Processing where you issue instructions to it verbally, to self-automation where it can turn itself on and off upon instructions, to motion and optic sensors which assist in efficiency while executing the task. Plus, it does have to take its shirt off while mowing and cause mass hysteria!

  1. Window wiping and Cleaning

Well, this also has to be one of the most boring tasks ever. Imagine, just staring through a transparent glass surface, cleaning it, while watching other people having fun on the other side of the window. Pretty boring, right? Well, thankfully, there is the WINBOT 880 which takes care of this tiresome task. With most windows being made of glass thereby being extra sensitive, window cleaners need extra security features to not only keep it safe and secure, but the user as well. With a combination of optimized navigation and smart detection, WINBOT goes over your windows 4 times to ensure maximum cleanliness.

These are just a few of the many revolutionary technologies you can use to help you save time during your home cleaning. The beauty with it is the machine learning in them that helps them improve their functionality with time. So you can be confident with their execution of the task and their submission to you, at least for now!

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Constructing An AI-Powered kitchen

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I cannot even conclusively exhaust just how much impact AI has had on the kitchen. From being that region of the house with the most tasks and being the riskiest of them all, the kitchen has become a hub of AI-powered tools and functions. Together with the entertainment room, the kitchen has had the greatest revolution since the invention of AI. So, let us have a look at some of the things the kitchen can thank AI for now and forevermore. The beauty of it all is that these appliances can be installed into your home during construction thereby saving a lot of expenses, effort, and time.

  1. Cooking appliances

We can all agree that primarily, cooking is what every kitchen seeks to do. And cooking the greatest food since the greatest memories are made by food. So, in the home, very many appliances are installed both during and after construction to power your kitchen with the latest AI technologies for cooking. For instance, for baking good food and mixing drinks, the Perfect Bake Pro works perfectly. These smart products connect with your phone using an app that allows you to prepare food and forget. It will alert you throughout your cooking of the points of adding different ingredients and even notifies you of when the food is ready. Also, a new emerging and interesting cooking technique- Sous Vide- that uses vacuum technology has also arisen off-late- with the advent of AI. Sous Vide devices are thus, also quite revolutionary AI technologies for cooking in the kitchen.

  1. Cleaning appliances

We know just how sensitive the kitchen is to cleanliness. If you have to keep your family safe, then you have to keep your kitchen extremely clean. Any low cleaning standards could lead to a very high risk of illnesses that could affect all who consume food that comes from that kitchen. Because of its high sensitivity, very many AI-powered technologies have been developed that are installed both during and after construction to help in kitchen cleaning.

For dishwashing, there exist dishwashing machines that are powered by AI. From sorting your dishes based on purpose and material to finding the best and most efficient dishwashing strategy, these dishwashers cut the washing time by 50% and increase efficiency by almost 70%. It doesn’t get easier than that.

Dusting and mopping the surfaces and floor of the kitchen has also been taken care of by AI-powered devices such as DEEBOT T8 that achieve high levels of cleanliness with just a single swoosh across our kitchen surface. With machine learning, these devices ‘understand’ your kitchen and optimize your cleaning. In addition, these devices have a live stream that allows you to track the cleaning of your kitchen from anywhere in the world.

  1. Storage facilities

Like cleaning and cooking, storage of food makes the kitchen a very sensitive area. You want to safely store your food and avoid contamination and increase its lifeline. Because of this high level of necessity, the kitchen has many AI-powered devices for food storage. For starters, of course, the smart refrigerator. The refrigerator has undergone so many improvements overtime till eventually, it has become smart. The smart ‘fridge’, technically uses a combination of IoT, NLP, and ML to effectively store your food safe and clean. It connects to the fridge, then, depending on the features built into it, it allows you to see what’s inside remotely using your smartphone; it also allows you to send and receive important notifications such as how old your food is and when it will go bad.

So, AI has made the kitchen a family’s best friend. You can have these devices that will revolutionize your kitchen time.

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AI for Smart Cities

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Smart cities are just that: smart cities. Well organized, smart cities are powered by AI in almost all aspects to ensure that they are not just a couple of buildings that come together ina geographical area, but are a hub of efficiency and maximization because of the impact of AI. So, are smart cities really a viable idea, and can they be executed? Is it a pipe dream to think that you can have a city maximizing its usefulness because of the impact of properly using Artificial Intelligence?? Let us have a look at the regions where if AI is properly used, we could have smart cities that revolutionize the world.

  1. Planning

Before you build a city, you must plan. From architectural designs of the houses, and the city as a whole, to laying out of plumbing and electrical plans to even allowing for roads and footpaths, AI must be actively involved to help in making the plans of the city. No city became smart after its construction, it always becomes a smart city after it was planned for even before the groundbreaking. So, before the construction of all the properties commences, or before all the electrical and plumbing work begins, the entire city has to be taken through a planning phase using AI to avoid any unprecedented eventualities. This will ensure everything that makes the city smart is taken into account. Imagine having to take down a few constructions after your city has grown just so you can make it smart. It will send a lot of your investments down the drain.

  1. Construction

Also, AI comes in handy during the construction of a smart city. Being that these are not cities left to chance for growth like other ordinary cities, but are rather preplanned and predetermined to be smart from the onset, these constructions are done in quite a large scale. So, during these constructions, AI must be involved in a major way to prevent any major problems and mistakes as such mistakes could be quite costly. From project management to safety and expansion strategies, to even efficiency of execution, AI comes in handy. AI will learn from the project and implement better tactics and strategy for maximization of output and minimizing resource wastage, all while also ensuring that the projects are made to be smart.

  1. Occupancy and Efficiency

When the project is done and the cities are already smart, the occupancy must be maximized as well using AI. Improper occupancy is one of the major problems that face the ‘old’ cities. It is therefore vital that during occupancy, AI is used to select occupancy based on a varied number of factors to ensure the city is efficient and maximized in its use. For instance, professionals in the hotel industry would be allowed to occupy residential premises next to hotels. This would help in a major way of increasing the efficiency of these workers thereby increasing the overall performance of the hotel. Occupancy would also improve smart infrastructure usage by residents of the city thereby increasing the efficiency of the infrastructure.

This all together works to make smart cities a reality. Some countries have tried to implement the smart city concept all over the world, some succeeding, some failing, but never one at 100% success or failure! Thankfully, different countries learn from each other and iterate their versions of smart cities. Hopefully, in the near future, there will be perfect smart cities that will serve for hundreds of generations to come. Hopefully, these cities will not become too smart that they decide to have human beings serve them instead of the vice versa.

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Security powered with AI

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AI is changing all aspects of human life. If you do not believe it, then just give it a maximum of 20 years and see, we will have machines doing almost all human tasks. Security has been an issue for so long and very many strategies have been put in place to help manage it as a part of human living. Many technologies have been developed over time, some failing, some succeeding. Kuna AI, one of the most embraced AI home security solutions, is a trendsetter when it comes to using AI to improve security and change human life for good. So how can AI be used in security and how does it work?

  1. Capture images or motion

AI can be effectively used to identify people and other objects, then with time machine learning the gadgets can be taught to know people and alert their users when strangers or trespassers are approaching. Sounds easy and direct, right? Well, it is not easy. For starters, there need gadgets that have optical sensors. These gadgets, such as cameras, will be tasked with the responsibility of capturing data and transmitting it to the required database. Also, we can have motion sensors that will pick up unusual movements when activated. This is the first point in a lengthy (but short) procedure of pumping up home security.

  1. Identification

After that, the data collected by the optical sensors as well as the motion sensors will be transmitted into a database: often preloaded with data that can be compared to the data being input. This will help in identifying who is securely allowed to enter the premise and who is not. Also, the technology can be able to distinguish different objects from each other. For instance, the system will be able to identify objects such as cars, dogs or other home items, objects or animals and differentiate even their motions to ensure maximum safety

  1. Processing and Learning

With deep learning, these gadgets are fixed with neural networks that help the machine have human-like processing, understanding and therefore enabling it to ‘learn’ and therefore conclusively make viable decisions. Simply put, these security systems are able to process data that they get overtime, analyse patterns and make deductions that can help in it making decisions. For instance, your AI Security system can be able to overtime process data with images of the homeowners and therefore automatically unlock the house when the owners approach. Sounds pretty cool, right?

  1. IoT (Internet of Things)

IoT will tie all this things together, if we are going to have locks that are automated based on data from cameras and motion sensors and eventually sending alerts to home users and security ccompanies, then we will need all these gadgets linked to one another. And that is where Internet of Things (IoT) comes in. With Internet of Things, all these gadgets are linked to one another, in a private and secure environment, often with end to end encryption.

So, when the cameras pick up images of an intruder, it will compare with its ‘learnt’ data or preadded data in the database and confirm whether this person are verified or not, based on the protocols and algorithms used. After the security system has determined that this is an intruder, it will lock the door, send an alert to the homeowner and the security firm concerned. This will help deny the intruder access to the premise, send alerts to the relevant people for action to be taken. So, this will greatly reduce break-ins as it will not only discourage intruders from trespassing but will also apprehend any individuals who attempt.

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IoT gadgets at Home

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The power of the internet is insurmountable. It is simply an interconnected web of computers. The internet technology has been moved over to gadgets that we use every day at home. These gadgets are linked to one another making it an effective channel of communication that is safe, fast, and secure. Though it is still a relatively new technology for most parts of the world, IoT devices and gadgets are expected to rise to almost 20 billion devices worldwide by 2021. So what are some of the gadgets at home that use the Internet of Things technology, and how do they effectively handle it?

  1. August Doorbell Cam

This is an innovative IoT device that allows you to control access to your home remotely. It allows you to answer your door from anywhere in the world, so long as you have internet access. The device also checks for motion as well as optical changes and sends alerts to you. Pretty cool, right?

  1. Kuri Mobile Robot

This is a very interesting technology. Simply put, this is a companion gadget. It is actually one of the most popular in its class. It interacts with its users quite closely capturing moments through images and videos for the users to see later. It is designed for entertainment in general. Its features are superb and simple making it a very good bargain

  1. Google Home Voice Controller

We have all somehow interacted with this device in one way or another- even if it is just in movies. This gadget allows users to use their voice to control home functions such as playing media, setting alarms, turning their lights on and off, adjusting thermostats, controlling the volume, and much more functions just by their voice.

  1. Amazon Echo Plus Voice Controller

This is another multipurpose IoT device that handles things such as running songs, set timers and alarms, do phone calls, manage other connected home gadgets, make searches online, provide information, have daily weather checks, manage to-do & shopping lists, and several other things. It really is a one-hit gadget solving other things.

  1. Footbot Air Quality Monitor

Imagine an IoT device that helps you breathe extremely fresh air. Fresh air that has been properly analyzed. That is what Footbot air quality monitor does. It measures indoor pollution and leads to improved air quality by giving air components in houses, the workplace, and indoor public spaces. It gives quite accurate results and has been proven to work. Now that’s a good and necessary IoT device.

  1. Belkin WeMo Smart Light Switch

With this device, users can control their home lights using their mobile or by using their voice. This smart light switch does not need any subscription or hub. It automatically connects to your existing home Wi-Fi network to give wireless access to your lights. The gadget is quite convenient since you do not have to get out of your room, or even your bed when you need to control the lights for anywhere in the house.

  1. Nest Smoke Alarm

This, as its name suggests, is a smart smoke detector. It automatically speaks, thinks, and alerts you through your mobile phone about any emergencies in your home. It is very convenient in keeping you safe from any emergencies whether you are at home, in the office, or not. It simply detects any unwanted dangerous occurrences such as a fire and alerts you.

These are just a few of the gadgets that implement IoT technology. There are very many others all over the world that you can use for your everyday tasks. Now that there will be quite a number of these devices by 2021, ensure you grab yourself one.

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3 AI-Powered Interior Design Tools

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Who said AI cannot be used for Interior Design? As AI is causing shockwaves across the entire world, Interior Design is not being left behind. In fact, this is one of those industries that has for a long time been struggling with expensive mistakes, that AI has come to solve. Interior Design is an expensive industry and various aspects of it such as design and implementation is an expensive affair that needs to be properly planned and executed to reduce any chances of costly mistakes. These are just some of the issues these 3 design tools come to help solve: to ease the entire process of interior design and reduce the cost as much as possible.

IKEA Place

This is one of the leading furniture brands and they have smartly designed a platform known as IKEA Place that allows users to do their own interior designing. IKEA place is built on Augmented Reality (ARCore) allowing you to place their furniture virtually on spaces within your house just through scanning the space using your phone camera. The platform also allows users to ‘mix’ their current products with IKEA’s products through an intelligent feature that allows you to blend your current home products with those of IKEA and see which fits the best.

Also, the app provides an accurate measurement of the products that would fit within the scanned space, which reduces the chances of users picking furniture that will not fit within the scanned space. Quite fancy and convenient, right?

Leaperr

This is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that basically does all your interior design. The system combines very advanced algorithms, deep-Learning which image-processing that automatically produces interior designs of very high quality and specification. The procedure of the design is quite simple. First, you take a picture of the room you intend to design. After that, you fill out a brief questionnaire (You can also choose photos of designs you like from their collection). Once you have done this, the AI system comes up with various images that will suit your space to the last inch. An interesting fact about this system is it actually generates Interior Design photos and not models. They look exactly like the real deal and will help even an extreme novice have a good interior design experience.

Planner 5D

With more than 80 million projects under its name and more than 40 million users, you can be sure Planner 5D is the real deal when it comes to interior design. This AI, VR, and AR-powered tool allows for even the ordinary, non-skilled homeowner to very easily make interior designs and create artistic floor plans. Available for Windows, iOS, Android, Mac OS, and web, the platform has a special functionality that turns a 2D blueprint into a 3D version. Its intelligent neural-network instantly digitize floor plans. All you need to do is just upload a floor plan and the AI will do its job.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, there are a whole lot of AI tools outside there for interior design. From those ones with just simple designing capabilities to those that help in designing to the last detail of your space. Whether you an experienced interior designer or are a greenhorn with no design or software skills, these apps, systems, and software will help you design so quickly, cheap, and with a lot of ease. Even if you are an experienced interior, it is no big problem to spend a little more time to garner more experience by using this AI design tools. Look around, you will find one that suits you perfectly.

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Ecovas Smart AI Robot Cleaner

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Technology is full of ironies. The rate at which automation is taking over many of our daily tasks is fascinating. Old times are gone where one had to spend time cleaning your rooms with hands. Ecovacs has solved this problem of cleaning your room manually and removing stuff that could make the vacuum cleaner get stuck on them. They have incorporated artificial intelligence to develop a robot vacuum cleaner which has become one of the best home robotic appliances. It uses TensorFlow lite to navigate and sense any obstacles. 

What is its Technical aim and background?

This Robot cleaner is a vacuum cleaner that can clean your room automatically and successfully. It has many features that help it do these tasks with ease. They include auto-recharge, environment mapping, obstacle climbing, and anti-drop. It has a laser distance sensor that technically helps it map the area around it and with the help of an infrared sensor it can detect any obstacle around it. 

The SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) technique is smart but sometimes it cannot detect all the obstacles on the floor especially the small ones and soft ones. The infrared sensors, bumpers and, Laser Lidar sensors cannot detect these obstacles successfully. These can lead to your robot pushing your shoes to somewhere else making it hard to trace them, also the robot can be entangled by wires around the room and some of your soft mats can also be entangled making the vacuum cleaner break down. 

One easiest way to avoid the above challenges is arranging your house before you start your vacuum cleaner which makes the cleaning process a hassle. By adding a camera in front of the robot helps computer algorithms see these obstacles and avoid them. Now your shoes, dustbins, changers, wires, and mats cannot be pushed again. This technology requires a lot of data which is hard to collect due to the complexity of house interiors, many available objects which are small and soft sometimes and computing is also a challenge. With these challenges, it becomes hard to detect objects with algorithms. The robot has solved this by implementing deep neural networks for object detections. This technology is based on TensorFlow which is a reliable framework with available resources for re-use. It has available API and the framework can be easily deployed. 

How is data gathered?

A large amount of data is the foundation of the deep learning model. To build this robot a lot of data was collected around the world. This helps come up with an accurate and robust dataset. This data is collected in different places and different places. Then the data is cleansed to remove duplicate images that would use more memory. Data argumentation helps in simulating objects. 

Many robot vacuum cleaners already have this technology. Ecovas has guaranteed its clients that this device will not collect and store personal images and send them back to the company. But they give you an option where you can help them collect data to improve the technology. Privacy is key when such technology is taking shape and using a neural network model on such a vacuum cleaner is recommended. 

This Robot vacuum cleaner helps you enjoy life by living smart. It is a robot that will adapt to your home after learning how your house looks like. Incorporating artificial intelligence has made the vacuum cleaner more autonomous and cleaning is now more easy and efficient. It smart AVI navigation and mapping is a reliable technology which helps in securing the data collected. It is developed in a such a way that it adapts to various floor layout and different cleaning task which takes user experience to a new level. 

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Smart Home Safety tricks and tips

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A protected home is comfortable and safe to live in. One way of protecting your home is by monitoring everything happening and detecting any home invasion. You need to be a bit inventive when implementing home measures. This will help to keep off tempting thieves to break your home. Nowadays the best thing to do it is via technology with smart devices which makes the process a bit easy and fun. Smart devices are intelligent devices that apply the latest IoT and AI to protect your house more reliably. You need to have fast internet in your home to enjoy this technology.
There are many benefits of having this technology and fast internet. One is the affordability and easy installation process. These devices are cheap and many are wireless which makes it require less wiring. This makes it take less time when installing and when purchasing them. Just with one payment and you have the whole system. You also need a connected home. Technology is now being implemented either directly or indirectly in many modern homes. Many homes have internet, smart devices installed which you can use them to integrate with security systems which you can use to receive notifications on your phone. With smart security systems, you can get the security status of your home while on go and control the alarms, lights, locks and even you can connect to authority systems so that they can be alerted when there is a security threat. Imagine you are on vacation and algorithms are taking care of your home. Having smart security you can view your home from everywhere easily and conveniently which impressive for everyone. There are many apps in the store which connect with CCTV and will allow you to respond to security from where you are by playing real events in your home or playing back recorded footage. This is made possible with intelligent devices with numerous options. These devices can help you respond immediately to the alarm alerts that are reported directly on your phone screen. This will depend on the alarm preferences you had set before you left the house. This helps in stopping security alerts that can lead to malicious damage or theft.
These smart alarm devices can connect wireless over a wide area efficiently. This means you can install them outside in different places like gardens and garages and interconnect them to alarm network and CCTV for easy remote access. This technology makes sure your security system is relegated to a wide area of your compound for easy monitoring when you are far away.
Before installing a new system there are few things you need to look into carefully. One you need to study how the whole system works so that you can know what the system will do for you after buying. Then you need to know the cost of the system compared to other existing systems that can do the same tasks. You need to consider the upfront cost for the system and monthly costs for running the system and maintaining it. Lastly, research the best companies which provide reliable systems with the best quality. You can check online the best reviews companies and get to see which have the best deals and recommendations. When checking customer reviews be careful because of bias and discriminating customer reviews. These reviews are important because they give testimonials about how the system is performing. You can also visit complaint sites to see if the systems that you are about to purchase has to complain.
Technology is making smart security more reliable and adds more benefits for your property security. It has made security more vigilance and accessible everywhere.

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Smart Garage Door Technologies

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Our homes nowadays have almost everything automated. From our smart tv, refrigerator, lighting, cooking, beds, smart locks among others. With just your smartphone you can control your house temperature from where you are just by a single touch. Garage door openers are also adapting to technology. It is not that beautiful like smart TVs but it is a technology we can be proud of. Its something we can give tips on, see how it has been changing and most importantly the smart garage door opener technology.
If you are starting to use this technology of door opener, it’s important to start with simple technologies that are not expensive and can help you open the door and close it with your smartphone app remotely. If you leave home and realize you have left your door open you can use the feature to close the door and that how technology is coming helpful day by day.
With more technologies, you can get advanced features such as security alert, see the logs of how many times your door has been opened and also you can decide who to give grant remote access to your garage. If you have a modern garage door already you are lucky since these technologies can work with your existing technology as long as your set up is not more than fifteen years old. You have to make sure you have a strong WiFi connection which can enable you to connect and control your door through google assistants like Siri, google home or Alexa.
Before purchasing the system its good to research the best-recommended door opener systems. If you find a technology that will be installed once the better. You need to think smart when deciding what to install. Many smart garage door technologies have many interesting features which include security measures, security alerts when there are more carbon monoxide levels and temperature control sensors.
Many people wonder if they need a smart garage door opener and they forget the main idea why one needs a smart door garage. With this technology you can check if your garage is secure and if you its closing properly. With the speed of the internet you can now open your garage from anywhere. You can allow your family member or workers to enter from where you are without having more keys. You can allow online delivery to be dropped even if you are far away. If you are a fan of smart home automation this is a chance this could be a big step to boost the technology. You can set features such that when you leave your garage the vacuum cleaner starts cleaning. You can even set your garage to switch on lights music, and communicate with other smart home devices.
An example of a smart garage device is Asante for recording what happening around the garage. It has more interesting features like visual checking the images, notifying with a text message when the garage door is not closed. It can even select favorite music for you.
With smart home security is very crucial. You need to observe these tips when implementing your smart garage. Many people are not aware that they use front door more often than their main door and thus it should have best security. One you should have a string password of your WiFi. Make sure your door cant be opened manually. Always keep track on your sensors to see who is around your garage. Try and have a motion sensor lighting. Always remember to tint ore cover your garage windows.
It is interesting how many people are not aware they use the garage door more often than their main door. This shows why nonevent should consider to apply technology in their garage.

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Netflix And AI For Your Home Entertainment

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Many people nowadays like streaming movies online or connecting them with their smart home tv to stream. Interestingly, AI, Machine Learning and Data Science are taking up every industry and the entertainment industry is not left behind. AI is becoming Ubiquitioas in the entertainment industry like in Netflix. These activities are behind the scenes and users are not aware of what is taking place. These AI solutions are changing the business model by solving different problems. These solutions are improving over time and improving user experience and many businesses. Sometimes AI gives positive results and sometimes it has negative effects. 

 Why could Netflix end up applying AI, Machine learning or data science?

 One is to recommend movies to different users. If a user watches one movie of action he is likely to watch another related movie. This helps to create artificial intelligence algorithms to which analysis users’ history and come up with different tastes for different users and recommend what you may be interested to watch and keep subscribing to watch more. This is making you get hooked to their platform and spend more.

 Autonomous generation of thumbnails. Netflix collects images and ranks them to help in the recommendation of movies. This depends on other users who are similar to you and what they have clicked. Users who like certain movies are likely to click certain actors or movies. This helps to create intelligent algorithms that help to sort out these calculations. 

 Movie production sites search. Netflix has collected a lot of data that they use to analyze to get the best scene for shooting their movies. This helps in allocating budget and setting and scheduling of actors and production resources. They can even preset the scene on a computer and decide whether to shoot at night or during the day. This is more of a data science field and not likely machine learning techniques because it uses recorded data to predict scenarios. 

 Editing movies to come up with high-quality pictures. Quality control is not an easy task, especially in movie production. Technology helps in this problem by helping to sync movie pictures with sound. This reduces the time spent if it was done manually which is a labor-intensive process. 

 Determining what quality to stream with technology is easy and it has helped Netflix to know how much bandwidth usage for different regional servers. 

 These applications have helped Netflix serve its millions of users effectively with different user experiences. This is just the beginning of these AI technology applications and it will continue to develop over time. 

 Netflix has also applied this AI technology solutions in their business model. Business forms the core factor of this whole business and without a business idea, these cases would be of no use and would remain just an unviable idea. 

 What we have discussed above is trying to solve a business goal, need or hypothesis. Many product managers spend a  

 lot of time trying to apply data science or ML without easily concluding what problem they are solving or business needs which leads to wastage of resources. 

 For AI to be productive there must be a business model and a problem its solving. You should also consider when making new algorithms if they will be implementable. For example,

  1. Netflix has to consider if these users who click to what related users are subscribing
  2. They should consider other related movies if they will be affected. 
  3. Sometimes algorithms can lead to false results which may be negative or positive.
  4. Also, they should consider if the images users are clicking are related to the movies they want. 

Netflix is a good example of how you can increase revenue with AI. It also teaches the need for research in AI to connect AI with problem-solving and AI. 

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