LG's HomeChat Will Let You Chat With Your Home Appliances Via SMS
LG really, really wants you to have a good chat with your washer/dryer and robotic vacuum cleaner.
By Sadho Ram — 26 Dec 2013, 07:37 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
LG has announced that it hopes to make scenes from SciFi movies a reality. Here's how.
At CES 2014, LG are planning to unveil a whole range of Smart Home appliances which can communicate with the user via smartphones.
LG’s new range of home appliances will use technologies that take advantage of Natural Language Processing(NLP) and will allow the users to communicate, control, monitor and share content via their smartphones.
crazyengineers.comLG are calling their interaction system as HomeChat service and LG are pressing the fact that there is no need to learn anything new in order to be able to use these new interaction tools
LG have collaborated with LINE application which is popular smartphone messaging application that is available across all the leading smartphone platforms.
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The service is initially only available in English and Korean, though LG says more languages will follow.
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Here's how it works
For example, texting “I’m going on vacation” in HomeChat will result in the automatic response, “Should I convert to vacation mode?”
When you reply yes, it will turn on your refrigerator’s power-saving mode, set your robotic vacuum cleaner to sweep the floor at 9am every day and set the washing machine to run a wash cycle on the day before your return.
crazyengineers.comSome of the devices that will offer interaction include – Smart Refrigerator, Smart Washing Machine, Smart Vacuum Cleaner and Smart Ovens
The app will also update you as to what's in the fridge, show a history of your robotic vacuum's cleaning trips and recommend recipes via the smart oven, to name a few other features.
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