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FEATURE STORY
How New Sensor Capabilities
Enable Faster Adoption of IoT
Technologies for the Smart
ome, Offi ce, and Factory
By Félix Marchal, Vice President of Global Application Marketing and Business Development, ams AG
uzzwords such as “smart home” or “smart factory” have entered the vocabulary of the electronics industry,
even though there is no agreed-upon defi nition of what they mean. Luckily, there is a widely held consen-
sus that the “smartness” implies a high degree of automation and personalization. In the smart home, for
Binstance, the living room of the future is a blend of an app, the cloud, and a sensor This might be realized
through a cloud-connected application enablement platform (AEP), which has trained itself to know the lighting,
sound, entertainment, fragrance, heating, and ventilation preferences of each family member and automatically
adjusts each setting depending on who is in the room.
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