WEBVTT - Masterclass on Smart living - How technology is transforming modern homes 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.400 Master Class. 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.200 The Master Class with Real is brought to you by 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:13.119 Decorates joe bergs Africa's premier decor and design expo, and 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.840 we're going to be exploring how cutting edge technology is 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:24.119 transforming modern homes, from smart appliances to energy management, home automation, automation, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.000 and even how AI is finding its way into our 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:29.160 living spaces. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:30.760 So I want to find out from you. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.000 I mean, are there any tasks you fully automated in 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:38.680 your home? Do you trust AI to manage things like security, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.680 lighting or energy? 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.440 How? How ahead of the curve are you here? 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.400 And then is it possible to even keep up with 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.880 the curve? Things are changing so quickly, aren't there all 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.879 the time? So I'd love to hear from you. Just 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.360 remember our phone numbers are one to one double A 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.080 three seven two. You can tweet me at radio seven 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.080 o two using the hashtag se no two afternoons. You 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.600 can email me on seven oh two afternoons at seven 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.720 o two dot co, dot z or WhatsApp me on 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.160 seven two seven o two one seven oh two. You 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.200 can also send what'sapp, voicemails, voice notes and we'll play those. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.319 You can also SMS me briefly on three one seven 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.560 o two and also send a message on the YouTube 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.080 homepage if you are watching us through that. My guests 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.280 on this masterclass is smart Living is Nission pla digital 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.440 and academic of Digital transformation Space and Laserdi Lebojor, Managing 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.319 director of Techroid Solutions. A very good afternoon to both 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.440 of you. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.319 Can Hi, Nishan Li Sadi. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.000 Let's start off with you when we talk about and 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.600 let's start basic when we talk about a smart home, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.240 what exactly is that? 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.200 Okay, okay, thank you very much for putting into Jane 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.000 so smart poly so thick about appliances that you have 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:07.160 in your house. It could be that would be your spots, 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:12.840 could be your feede right that energy right, So, so 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.440 smart home technology is integration. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.839 Oh is that a smart intervention there? Yeah? 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.080 We can we can go ahead, okay, okay, thank you. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:26.520 Yeah. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.880 So, so it has a long chain right from energy 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:35.359 monitoring and the devices themselves. Right. But in order for 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:40.000 you to you know, necessarily understand how the ecosysteam works, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.639 it's all about you know, how automation or acts with 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.520 devices and integration to to to like the likes of 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.960 your mobile phone that you can use to control you 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.239 control everything in your home. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:54.720 Nissan, Do you want to add to that? I mean, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.080 what are you seeing? 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.680 So I think, I mean, a smart home is really 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.320 about the customer. It's the use, it's me and you, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.519 and so I think the idea of smart home, or 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.639 the evolving of smart home has been around a technology 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.320 they call Internet of Things, which is this idea that 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.840 you know, your fridge traditionally wasn't ever connected to the internet, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.360 or you know, your kettle or your doorbell, and so 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.919 now things that were in your home for a while 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.800 and now connect to the internet, and what are the 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:30.360 possibilities of that that integration and that sinking of the 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.560 of those appliances together. So smart home really is around 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.320 the For me, it's around the efficiencies it brings to 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.000 the users of that house by connecting things we wouldn't 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.880 have thought could be connected to the internet. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.560 So if that's cooled the smart home, I wonder what 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.839 you call a home full of smart people. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:50.680 Smart smart home. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:56.120 With a lot of books. It's a lot of books into. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:00.760 Integrated books nissansor I mean, tell us what's out there? 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.240 I mean, there's so many things like Alexa, Google Home, 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.400 Apple Home Kit, I mean. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:06.360 What are they? 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.960 What are we seeing from the lights that are out 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.520 there to the appliances that we can have access to. 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.800 So, Jena, I must tell you I love this topic. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.120 It's really because I'm not just speaking from a point 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.120 of theory. I've had a smart home in an integrated 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.240 home for a few years now, so experimented as the 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.520 technology has gotten to the mainstream, and so you find 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.719 that Android is probably the leader, at least locally in 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.280 terms of integrating tech and smart homes because I think 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.760 it's it allows the platform is open to a lot 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.240 of third party integrations, which means, you know, you can 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.760 connect a lot into it compared to Apple, So the 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.400 two big ones, Apple and Android, and so what is 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.080 out there. At the very basic level, You've got your 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.560 you know, your lights that you can adjustifire your cell 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.880 phone to the point where your fridge can order groceries 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.720 if it sensors that missing milk and so it can 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.640 tine and order groceries. Or you can control your sound 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.000 by your voice, or you can pause your your Netflix 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.400 as you're watching with your voice. So there's a range 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:16.240 of solutions, and ultimately it boils on being connected on 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.120 the Internet and sitting on a platform. So Android is 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:24.360 simply a platform where that integrations happen. But as an example, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.960 if you have a make of fridge, whether it be 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.560 Algae or whether it be Samsung that has a platform, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.280 and so a lot of the smart tones do depend 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.839 on what platform you choose to integrate and get the 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.560 value from. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.600 And Lecedie, what are you seeing? How smart is your home? 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.360 Now? What I have in my house is just as 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.880 smart TV afric Alexa, but I bell implemented it because 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:58.280 it doesn't support most of the appliances, especially in sortificated 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.320 implemented INCA. So once once the reedit to implement locally, 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:04.839 I'll be able to use a Lexa. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:11.880 And yeah, I also there's smart lighting you know where 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.800 if it's like x p M, I cantroll it just 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.640 you know, you know, light the lights and then it's 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.240 in the morning six am the lights just reach off. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:22.719 Yeah that's what I have currently. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.440 Okay, let's go back to that French because that absolutely 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:31.000 fascinates me. So say you say you short of milk Nation, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.039 how does it I mean, what does it do? 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.840 So it alerts you that we've got a shortage of milk. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.559 Does it get through to pick and pay or checkers 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.400 or Willis or whatever you fancy. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:42.960 What's the next step. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.600 So I think there's stages of automation. So one of 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.640 the things it does is its similar to kind of 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.120 the if you've heard about the Amazon ghost stores, and 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.880 these are stores where there's no cashiers and you go 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.120 in and you pick an item, and you walk out, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.279 and it automatically knows what you've put into your trolley 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.760 and and it charges you for it. What it does 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.200 is the fridge can either work on image recognition. So 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.200 what you do is you'll have a place to put 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.320 your fridge and I mean for it to put your milk, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.920 and a place where you put your vegetables. And what 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.400 you do is you'll give it an inventory and you'll say, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.360 you know, I've now I now added these grosses into you. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.040 And what it does is it either uses weight or 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.440 it uses image recognition to know actually you're low on 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.400 these on these quantities. And so what you can do 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.280 is you can display the missing items, so it goes 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.680 you know, you need these things because this is what 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.520 you put in the beginning of the month, and now 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.200 you have by the middle of the month, you've you've reduced, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.000 and this is what you need. But what you can 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.200 also do is you can tighten an automation or smart workflow. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.520 And so the minute your milk gets below a certain point, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.640 it can trigger routine. So I don't want to be 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.200 I don't want to use too many because you know, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.880 when you live in the tech world, you can often 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:59.120 use words that a lot of people don't necessarily instinctively get. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.640 So routine, I'll give you an example of it. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.240 So I'll give you an example of routine. When I 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.000 get up in the morning. I've got a Google Home 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.120 speaker in my bathroom, right and the speaker is part 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.960 of an ecosystem of speakers through my house. And what 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.400 I'll do is I'll go and I won't say hey 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.720 and the word because it'll activate my smart systems in 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.280 my office. But I would say to Google a good morning. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.240 That routine goes into a its platform, and the minute 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.600 I say good morning, it kicks into several routines. One 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.800 is it gives me time of the day, It gives 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.960 me weather, it tells me how long to get to work. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.840 I've also added that it must tell me a funny joke. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.880 I like a good smile on my face in the morning, 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.400 it'll tell me any outstanding tasks I have. So if 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.360 I've put any reminders into into you know, over the 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.720 lo it'll tell me the reminders and perhaps my meetings 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.559 for the day if I have, and how long it 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.760 will take me to get to those meetings. And then 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.480 it goes into my news reports. So there's several like 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.080 tech check or CNBC that often have podcasts that they 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.480 release once a week. It will then play those in 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.400 order that I wanted to find little play raterers. So 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.480 this is the routine I kicked in by simply saying 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.920 good morning. It kicks into this while I'm shaving, brushing 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.520 my teeth, et cetera. And so these are smart workflows, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.800 and so you build these, you know, as you use 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.400 smart you can build these routines in. And that's how 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.320 the fridge would work. You'd build a routine in and 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.400 it could easily API into your Checkers app and place 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:31.960 the order. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.200 Got I do love the idea of that because it 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.760 also focuses you nicely in the morning. For example, if 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.080 you've got everything set up for you, We've got a 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:45.280 caller on the line from Johannesburg, David who owns a 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.640 business and I think you've got a question around SLA. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.400 Hello David, Hi, good day. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:51.480 Yes. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:56.679 So we're a company that install for both residential and 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.720 commercial installations. We use a product that is AI driven. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.320 The products for the residential site will learn your load 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.640 profile and will automatically read the load shedding schedule and 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.120 understand how much battery capacity you need for a two 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.240 hour or four hour load shedding and automatically charge your 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.680 battery ahead of a load shedding should you have not 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:24.880 enough battery capacity for that's determined load shedding. You can 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.880 also add smart switches on tur its so for excess 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.400 solar you can then heat up your gizer with excess 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.000 solar or run non essentials off the excess solar, like 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.040 your heat, your pool pump, your heat pump for your gizer, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.800 whatever it might be. For companies, we can also install 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.680 it so that you can take advantage of the different 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.200 time of uses, so you can now snot arbitraging power, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.679 so you can charge the batteries off grid and then 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:57.840 discharge it during high peak time off peak and peak, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.360 so you can make a saving like that, and it's 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.640 all integrated by AI and the system continue learns your 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.360 load profile and continues to improve the efficiency of the 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.880 plant using the assets that you required, either the solar panels, batteries, 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:17.480 whatever it might be. So it's all a driven. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.880 And David a premium for that kind of information. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.480 No, so it all comes standard with the package. The 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.120 product is very very well priced. What comes with a 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.400 ten year warranty on the batteries and the inverters far 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.240 better than what's currently out there with the other products. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.040 They've only got a five year warranty and it's a 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.680 swap out warranty, so it's it's not a carry in 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.440 repair warranty, and it's all come standard and part and 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.240 parcel of the products, so it rarely very it's a 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.560 it's a very clever system. And for businesses, specifically for 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:57.360 business big commercials. We can save customers thousands millions in 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.280 a year just by working heavily with the time of use, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.400 demand charges and so forth. So it's it's a very 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.360 very viable solution for businesses and reservation. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.600 Sadie, What do you make of that? I should imagine 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.560 you see quite a bit of that in the word 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:11.040 that you do. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:16.720 Yeah, definitely techinically, Jim, Yeah, so I think nowadays, Like 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.240 I referend who stays in the US, right, he got 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:25.480 one of his houses in so you know what he 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:30.080 does he cons his home with smart ticketage while it's 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.360 in the US. So I think once we adopt to 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.640 tech and understand how it works, it will be you know, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.839 efficient and use of the in a on a user's 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.080 perspective to use smart technology definitely is much you know, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.800 more helpful is spicly going in South Africa. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.200 Okay, David, thank you very much for those comments. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.760 And it's wonderful to know what is what's out then 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.480 and what we have access to. I mean a nasion. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.000 I mean, I suppose smart technology in a way, it 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.400 can make us a whole lot smarter, right once we 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.680 learn how to control the information that goes into it. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:19.160 So Jane, it's it's right because technology can't exist by itself, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.640 so there's no use to it. And so the technology 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.600 by itself, we've got to go what do we want 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.480 it to do? You know? And as an example, I'll 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.240 give you an example recently. Ring. So Ring is mostly 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.360 in America, but Ring is a digitized doorbell. So what 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.280 it is is it's a doorbell that has a camera, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.000 on it, and so in America it's quite popular and 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:45.720 Ring recently announced that they have AI built into their platform. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.480 So what they will do for premium users is that 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.520 if somebody rings your doorbell, it will automatically identify who 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.160 it is and it will send you a message to say, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.840 this person is at your door. Now that's quite interesting 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.000 because some people people would say, well, is that not 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.000 an invasion? You know, like what sort of information are 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.040 they collecting to be able to identify me? While other 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.199 people might say, I'd love to know before I open 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.400 my camera and look at it and open the door, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.760 I'd love for an ogation to say, you know, Jane's 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.720 at the door, Niches at the door, or you know 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.640 that mother in law is at the door. You know, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.280 you'd love that kind of information. But people have a 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.280 different view on it. Is it about being too invasive 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.720 or it does it add value? And ultimately it's got 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.240 to be where it'd add value. So the previous caller 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.640 talked about a system that adds value, and that's what 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.680 you've got to decide is how much is going to 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.960 add value? Because maybe a fridge that's going to cost 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.080 you one hundred thousand ran that simply tells you what's 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.600 missing in the fridge is maybe doesn't add as much 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:54.280 value as you like, but perhaps speakers that you could say, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.360 please play a song for me and you anyway in 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.760 the house and it plays that song could be massively 0:14:58.840 --> 0:14:59.360 valuable to you. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.280 Yeah, there's a listener wants to know the name of 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.160 that fridge. I mean, where do you find these fridges 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.880 and how much can you pay? 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.600 So they are quite extensive. So the fridges that have 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.200 that are connected to the Internet and they generally have 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.600 LEDs LED displays on the front of the fridge. I 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:26.240 know Algae and Samsung and there's some boutique technology companies 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.200 that are working on it. Those fridges. They are going 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.320 to be very expensive. So you would look at probably 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.520 close to one hundred or two hundred thousand rand for 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.640 a fridge that will tell you what's missing in it. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.760 The capability is there, and the question is whether you 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.640 know any new technology is massively EXPERI I remember when 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.720 I started experimenting in the space, it was expensive to 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:54.360 buy my first Google speakers, but as time went by, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.200 an Xbox had it integrated as part of its console. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.800 So now I had it into Greatest as part of 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.480 the tech I was buying. And so now the price 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.960 point has dropped significantly to be able to automate QR 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.440 I mean little NFC tags that can enable some of 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:16.040 this automation. Sometimes five rand for a little sticker. So 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:20.600 the price has come down, but it's almost separating the 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.360 trend from what is functional in your life and what 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:25.560 will become useful for you. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.360 Nicka from Polokwania, I have that answers the question about 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.840 the fridge, and le said Nicko also wanted to know. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:33.720 About the TV. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.320 You were talking about the smart TV, but I think 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.240 what you were saying was that maybe it's not smart enough. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.600 You could definitely go smarter. What direction would you go? 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:43.720 Okay? 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.880 I would say, you know and the best when it 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.960 comes to smart TV, so that like basic stuff like 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:56.840 you know, your Netflix, intact it with your Gmail account 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.960 so that it can have access to all of those 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.720 so so so the smartest of the television, it's more 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:09.200 around you know, asking the's a Netflix switch, say if 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.760 you want to to to watch at that stage or 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.400 you could easy to go to you know, any other 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.359 channel and you know, use your voice to access the 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.840 til that you want to you want to watch at 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:28.040 that stage smaller tis that we have currently that we use. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.720 And process. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.240 Smart technology to help me to be more efficient with 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.359 energy or to improve security is absolutely a necessity. But 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.720 a smart fridge is an absolute waste of money and 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.840 promotes laziness. Just check what needs you need yourself, stand 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:43.719 up and go and buy it. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:45.520 I mean he's got a good point, hasn't. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.360 I mean, do you do you think the smart technology 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.880 starts to make us lazy? Do we start relying on 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.920 on this technology when actual fact we should be doing 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:56.720 it ourselves. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.720 Jane, you know there was I was sorry, Sorry, sorry, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.720 I got ahead. Oh okay, I was saying that, Jay. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.679 I mean recent research came out that said that, you know, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.000 use of chatch Ept like jenitebay I can actually make 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.200 us dumber and and and I think the question is 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.800 about what skill do you need to experiment now that 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:26.000 will become a norm in the future. So uh, it's 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.960 it's I think I believe it is necessary to experiment 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.000 with technology in your home. So if you, if you 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:34.680 allow me, I'll give you an example. I've got a 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.560 I've got an h old daughter, and I've been talking 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.479 to my house for many years, you know, asking it 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.359 to for a recipe to play a song, to pause 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.960 the TV, to switch on the lights, and children learn 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.800 from what you do and h The other day, I 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.840 was at gym and my my Spotify account. The song 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.959 I was listening to completely changed, and I was wondering, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.360 what is going on into some Korean kind of song, 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.560 you know, k pop, And so I changed it back 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.119 and it changed again, and I realized that what had 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.280 happened was my daughter was engaging with my home So 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.840 she was chatting to my Android system, my Google home 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.919 hub and asking it to play a song that she 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.320 had heard on TV or something she watched on Netflix. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.560 And so she had learned to engage. Maybe so she 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.080 had engaged with that technology, and so she has now 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.040 learned to skill to how you ask technology to give 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.000 you something, because there's a very specific way you've got 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.440 to ask it to play a song on Spotify, so 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.600 not just a song on its native app, but through 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.359 a specific platform. And so now I've got to actually 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.520 create a profile for her in a voice print for 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.960 her because she's engaging with the technology. And so I 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.119 believe that the needy is we've got to experiment with 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.280 the technology, We've got to play with it, because if 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.080 we don't, then the future is going to pass us by. 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.919 So the minute we have more tech, think of smartphones. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.880 You know you we removed but from smartphones. If we 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.280 weren't playing with the technology and need it in our life, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.080 we would never have We never learned the skill of 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.119 operating a phone without buttons, and now zero buttons on 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.720 the phone. And so the question is what's skilled do 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.560 you want to learn in terms of tech that's going 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.439 to add value to your life going forward. So I 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.960 do believe you have to experiment with it. Maybe it 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.720 isn't the fridge, because the fridge is I do agree, 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.159 you've got to get up and look at what's in 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:25.560 your fridge. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.240 We all want to know that we can afford it, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.160 but maybe we shouldn't go that route. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.360 But there's other aspects where it's good to learn. It's 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.960 good to know how you engage with your voice assistant 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.560 on your phone. Why because you don't want to touch 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.480 your phone when you're driving. But if you know how 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.440 to engage with your assistant, you can easily make a call, 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.879 sender WhatsApp, check your messages without picking up your phone, 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:51.959 and that could be useful as well as safe. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:58.520 All right, we're speaking about managing transforming modern homes and 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.679 what it is that you need to do to upgrade 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.440 your home to get a smart home with my guests 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.720 Nasion Pillay and lace Le Bojo, and we're going to 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.000 be taking your questions and your WhatsApp notes which have 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:15.720 been coming through seven or two masterclass, so master Class 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:20.360 today Smart Living, How technology is transforming modern homes. 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:21.800 Norman has sent us a voice. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:28.040 Note, Good afternoon, Jane. Very interesting topic, nomen in pretoria. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:32.240 But what I'd like to find out is what happens 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.880 if you take a system like the ring that he's 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:40.480 talking about. What happens then when the authorities come and say, 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.600 we would love to have access to this system, so 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:50.679 that if your system recognizes the most wanted medaer that 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.840 the police have been chasing and it says that this 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.680 person is outside the door at XYZ address, we want 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.280 to be able to get that inform mention immediately from 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:05.440 your system and then being able to act. Would the 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.480 company that runs this system have their right to say no? 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:12.919