Image via CrunchBaseGoogle made another huge announcement on its years’ I/O conference, introducing yet another new innovative idea of using technology, called Android@Home. It has been building a new more adaptable framework for Android OS, which will allow the programmers to use the new technology in order to communicate with other various electronic home devices which not necessarily run on Android, take light bulbs, thermostats, washing machines and more, for example. It declared Android@Home to be brand new phenomena which will make use of a completely open wireless protocol, letting the OS easily connect with basically any electricity powered device.
Google's engineering director, Joe Britt, was the one who presented the idea in front of the large audience and even larger online viewers of the conference. He used the everyday examples of the Android@Hone system to be working with an alarm clock app in your Android device, which can be connected with appliances like lights and speakers, and could be perhaps used to slowly raise the lights after the alarm has gone, or even raise the volume of a separate stereo device lying in the room. Moreover, Britt went on stating that if general users adapt the idea and Android@Home is successful, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine an Android device completely controlling an giant irrigation system wirelessly, he said the users can have their own ‘kind of a real-world FarmVille app.’
Furthermore, Google added their new initiative called Project Tungsten, which can be defined as to be collaboration with its newly announced Music Beta by Google service, which was also debuted at the same conference, or any Android smartphones to be wirelessly controlling any particular model of speakers with the network of Android@Home without any complication.
The companies which have showed confidence and have scored a partnership with Google over their new Android@Home system, is market-leading LED manufacturer, Lighting Science Group. It was also revealed that the first Android@Home-capable LED light bulb will be released sometime in the end of this year too. Another partner of the Android@Home, Hasbro, also discussed his intended plans to make robotic toys which will sense mood shifts using this new highly-adaptable system of Google.
It will not be wrong to admit that ‘home automation programs’ are not exactly a completely new idea, however, it is true that they were never presented in market by such a giant before. The future and scope of this Android@Home basically lies completely in the hand of developer's imagination, how much they use it to do in the house in attempts to impress consumers.
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