Hello,

I am reading continiously about refrigerators, aircondition units, ovens that have internet connection.

Are there any people here that actually connected these to internet?
Do they have wireless option, or we really have to plan for wires for each appliance?

Thanks!

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Hi

After an initial flurry of announcements back in the 90s, not much has happened. Devices like TVs and BluRay players have Internet connections for accessing content and many of these have a wireless option.

Internet fridges seem to have mostly gone away, although I think I saw one announced recently by Samsung. The problem is that they were very expensive and when you compare the average life of a fridge (say 10 years) with the average life of Information Technology (say 3 years) you are going to end up with an expensive fridge with a very slow computer in it after a few years.

I would like to see Internet connections for anything with a clock in it (say microwaves) so that I don't have to run around changing clocks all the time!

To answer your question, I think that wireless will be available when/if these devices become more popular. In my house I have about 60 data points, and there isn't one behind the fridge.

Paul

You have to question the point of it all really? What advantages does it really bring to have the fridge connected to the internet...

You can understand the need to have AV devices such as TV's connected to the internet because this makes the world of content at your fingertips and aswell the likes of HVAC sytems as you remotely control the temperature to your prefered level when you get home. I wouldnt be to concerned about fridges microwaves ect at this point id rather HVAC systems to become more sophisticated and create a far more open platform instead of their own propiartary bus communications that they have for control.

I think it would be better to put a kind of GPS chip in the microwave, it can use that to set the time, after all, wouldn't want someone to hack into the microwave!

But I think they need to make the appliances just have a screen like a dumb terminal with a central box that can coordinate, it will know you need deodorant and not just a milk from the shops, and one day hopefully talk to your smart phone and see your nearly home and it can turn the front light on, turn the HVAC system on and maybe call you and ask if you would like a Beveridge when you get home

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Yes , all are correct points.

But if oven, air conditions wouldnt be great to have internet connection and connect very easily on the net?
So you can start them at any point, and also shut them off if needed...

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