Internet of Things (IOT) - Google Home

GOOGLE HOME 


  • What is google home and why have it


    Google home - a smart speaker developed as a medium to use Google Assist. The smart speaker plays music, and incorporates google voice activated virtual helper that’s connected to the internet. Google home is on top of the lists for leading home applications and devices - that enable users to connect various devices such as their Smart TV, Android Smartphones, and other google devices.


    Google home has voice activation and listens to its environment to detect users' questions and commands once they say “OK, Google” or “Hey, Google” to deliver the needful information via the internet. 


    So why buy and incorporate Google Home?


    Google Home has gotten a lot better as a personal assistant. You could always ask your Google Home to perform basic tasks like searching the web, checking your calendar, GPS, search YouTube. 


    User’s can train Google Assistant to recognise up to six distinct voices, which will enable it to customise its responses based on who's talking, enabling your family to have their own personal experience and use of the device. Google can also offer personalised answers if you ask about your commute to work or your schedule for the day. 


    Hence, investing in Google Home can align and connect all your household smart devices to leverage your connectivity and devices multi-functionality.



    How it can be incorporated in your life


    Even though Google Home is one single object, with the integration of Google Assistant and other google devices our living place can be transformed to a smart home quite efficiently. 


    To make this integration efficient, Google offers numerous devices for households that can communicate and work together to make daily life easier at home. Such devices include smart speakers, phones, cars, TVs, headphones, watches, and more. The connection can be well established with the google home app and the technology will be run by Google’s own Artificial Intelligent, Google Assistant all over. 


    To connect devices with Google Assistant, upon checking compatibility with Google Home, smart home action needs to be implemented first. The Steps are:


    • Choosing core device for navigating through or controlling the smart home i.e. Google Nest Hub.

    • Training Google Assistant to recognise the voices of family members and other users and customise responses accordingly to make it voice active. 

    • Choosing a convenient location for the device to place so that its in the reach of everyone whenever.

    • Choosing gadgets and devices for home appliances and other use i.e. smart thermostats, smart security systems, smart locks, smart doorbells and more

    • Next step involves syncing them. Ensuring every gadget is connected to Wifi, each device needs to be synced to Google and if the devices are other third party companies, they need to be synced through their respective apps. 

    • Enable routine functions to make them work independently when the user is absent. 


    These steps will get one’s home ready and up for functioning with Google Assistant. For further explanation, a video is attached here:



    Demonstration of incorporating Internet of Things through Google Home  and other related technologies:





    Benefits of Google Home as an IoT device


    Google home is a unique device that is having the most impact and making most out of the internet of things to the world. Since the device has access to the entire Google graph it can simplify your life. For example, if you ask any question it can access millions of facts to answer your question as a normal google website would. Some of the other advantages are:

    1. Aesthetic design

    2. Reasonable pricing

    3. Easy to make calls

    4. It can recognise different voices

    5. It can give step by step instructions. For example, cooking something


    Among many uses, you can ask Google Home to cast any video onto the smart TV (play a youtube video or continue your movie on netflix)and also you can connect to compatible speakers and ask to play music.


    All these features of Google Home make people's lives easier. Google wants home to live on your coffee table. Engineers are working to make it better and expand to other areas. Once they have a breakthrough, it will become more comfortable to use.Internet of things is going to be the future, let it change your life in the way you deserve!


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