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Traditional dirt sensor vacuums resist the robotic onslaught
Rise of the machine … dirt sensor vacuums In an earlier post on the latest CES-announced robotic vacuums with airborne dust sensors and for people with allergies, we promised to do a post on traditional (manual) vacuums that incorporated dust sensors just like their robotic dirt sensor vacuum peers. We explained why this was necessary. If your carpet is relatively clean and is just getting a weekly maintenance vacuum, most people (and most cleaning services) will just do a single pass. As the robotic vacuums clearly show, that’s not enough. You still want to do multiple passes, and extra passes where there is extra dirt. Robotic dirt sensor vacuums can detect this extra dirt from footfalls and places near windows and doors where air currents deposit airborne pollution. Humans can’t see this (although they’ll notice the robotic vacuum has managed to get the carpet just a tiny shade lighter even if it’s vacuumed every week).… Read the restHome Automation and the Internet of Things; answers to readers comments
CES blog posts Our CES reports on new robotic vacuum cleaners, smart refrigerators, and environment-sensing scales were some of our most popular posts with our readers, as was our coverage of Cisco’s talks on the Internet of Things. There’ll probably be a few more CES reports to share. In future posts, we’re going to cover some of the new home automation gadgets coming out that will make the Internet of Things a reality. Trouble is, too many existing appliances weren’t designed to network. Let’s say you wanted to use our app to decide when to turn your gas dryer, fireplace, or furnace on or off based on airborne combustion levels. That’s hard to do right now. Home Automation and the Internet of Things But a number of small startups are tackling this problem with innovative gadgets that interact with legacy electric appliances like washing machines and dryers. Some feature cameras, optical sensors, outlet switches, and mechanical activators together with a WiFi connection and logic that’s designed to make it easier to let the dryer signal you (over the Internet) when it’s done or even let you control the dryer from a website.… Read the restWhy did the toaster salute the CES-announced Internet-of-Things smart range hood? Because it was General Electric.
Smart, Internet-connected kitchen appliances make it easy to prepare Internet spam? We’ve already mentioned that the Internet Of Things was big at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, and have already covered Internet-connected vacuum cleaners with airborne dust sensors. Now, you might not have heard about the smart range hood. (It was, of course, right next to an Internet-connected smart refrigerator, the product labels and exhibit material still in Chinese (see photo gallery), so fresh off the boat is this smart refrigerator technology. Actually, there are several companies with an Internet-connected refrigerator. They are sometimes the butt of jokes. It is technology of the future. It was already the technology of the future at last year’s CES. And probably the year before. A little slow getting off the ground. In more recent news one of these Internet-connected smart refrigerators was recently implicated in spam sending attacks after being hacked. So if there’s spam in your Samsung smart refrigerator, it’s not clear if you mean email spam or Hormel Spam(TM).… Read the restDust sensors, the latest CES vacuum cleaners, and the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things comes to vacuum cleaners at CES The Internet of Things was big at CES this year so we went looking for appliance manufacturers that had incorporated a dust sensor (and Internet connection!) into their appliances. We’re apparently a little ahead bit of the pack on this, as most exhibitors in this space weren’t quite thinking along these lines yet. (There were “smart vent hoods” that might, or might not, incorporate a dust sensor. These allow restaurants to save energy, and we might do a future post on them [updated: link].) One company that was thinking along these lines was Moneual, that makes a robotic vacuum competitor to the iRobot Roomba that we review below. The exhibit heavily touted that the Moneual was “a hybrid” dry and mop robotic vacuum. This is a brilliant marketing move, and it makes sense that the same robot vacuum should be able to also mop.… Read the restRecent Comments
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