Why Google Home and Amazon Echo now reach the European market
While many companies are still busy with topics such as digitization and the Cloud, the next “big thing” arrives in Europe. It is called the Internet of Things and is intended to network the work environment as well as the private life completely. Read here, why this is just going to start in 2017 and what role Google could play here in Germany.
Notebook, CRM system, printer, coffee machine, or thermostat – every device is linked together, controllable via the user’s voice. What was announced a few years ago as a Smart Home has now long since left the field of well-paying homeowners.
Recent examples of IoT-products:
– printers
– Cloud PBXs
– refrigerators
– washing machines
– television
– lighting
– music equipment
– thermostats
– camerasystems
– smoke detector
– door locks
SmartHome becomes mainstream and leaves the boundaries of the “home”. Just have a look on the current efforts of Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. All four of these US companies now offer their own intelligent personal assistant, the basis of any networked environment.
Such voice access systems are currently equipped with microphones, so they are permanently listening to your users and are connected via a cloud with all compatible end devices.
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