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Published inSep 2023
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ISBN-139781801815291
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Marco Carvalho
Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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New technologies and trends in home automation

I don’t have a crystal ball to predict the future, but I used to follow the Home Automation market for quite some years and keep aware of the latest happenings in the area. I want to share with you my thoughts related to what is coming next in regard to trends and new technologies in the Home Automation area, and when it is the case, I will try to make links to Home Assistant. Let’s split this subject into separate topics to be covered in the next subsections.

Using current and new technologies to interact with your home

The first topic I want to cover is related to how current and new technologies will affect the way you interact with your home. Devices and software technologies will support and improve the way you are interacting, and will interact, with your home. The next subsections will highlight some of them.

Using voice assistants

I didn’t cover voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant...

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Author (1)

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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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