INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
It was a Wednesday, I was at work, and so was she
the smart home has a major Achilles heel that's completely out of your control
If you think about it, it's obvious, but the point of a smart home is you don't have to think about it: it's there, in the background,
home that day, but not until late in the evening
would bark at me that they were struggling to connect to a network if I dared utter "okay Google", and the Google Home Hub smart display in
With no Wi-Fi at home, the apps on my smartphone were also redundant
advanced features were unavailable.Without the internet, functionality of my smart TV and games console was also reduced
Access to TV apps such as Netflix and Prime Video were out of the question, as was online gaming.The phone apps for my smart home devices
We received an email that it had gone offline, which led to an investigation on my smartphone and the realization that our home had lost its
internet connection, rather than the Hello developing a fault.While the loss of the doorbell feature allowing us to make sure our Amazon
package was delivered safely to a neighbor was slightly frustrating, it was the loss of the security monitoring that was of a greater
concern.The Hello is able to record a few seconds of footage any time movement or sound is detected, and alerts you via a smartphone
in these products, as many smart home security cameras operate in a similar way.The smarts return, with a possible solutionIn all, our
just less than a day, it was nothing more than a mild inconvenience, but in a situation where your internet connection possibly breaks for
multiple days, and as smart devices become more ingrained into the working of our homes, the issues here are real
They need addressing if the technology can be trusted to effectively control key areas of our life.If you can't rely on your smart home,
integrating more complex devices and tasks into it will be a difficult sell
Perhaps the introduction of 5G could provide assistance, with the traditional cabled internet line into your home working in tandem with a
If one goes down, the other seamlessly takes over.In the UK, mobile carrier EE announced a router which offered this back in May 2018
(although it was 4G and not 5G), but mobile networks are still not widely available enough, nor support this level or usage for this product
to be viable for the mass population.As the 5G network roll out continues, bringing next-gen coverage and speeds to more areas, this
dual-connection router becomes a far more viable option, and it may just solve the problem for our smart homes.KN9MoPUPWb7ofJvD5RffmJ.jpg?#
