Let your home do the work so you don't have to The past few years have seen consumers embrace an increasingly wide range of smart-home devices. The most obvious change that has come to living rooms is in the voice-driven smart speakers that include Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home devices. They join digital home security cameras and other sensors intended to increase safety and devices that monitor energy usage to keep fuel bills down.  Today, we need to interact with connected products in the home deliberately. But it does not have to stay this way. In the latest Engineers' Insight, Martin Keenan investigates how home automation is changing and how the connected home might work in the future.
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