LG wants to bring your dumb appliances into the internet of things

Fresh off the announcement of their truly ridiculous $1,200 LG Urbane Luxe smartwatch, LG is announcing something much more useful. At IFA 2015, LG has taken the lid off their new sensors that aim to bring your dumb appliances (devices without a wifi connection) into the future and connect them to the internet of things.

Currently your device functions on its own and does it’s thing. With these sensors, you can monitor things like temperature and vibration to sense changes in operation. Dryer stopped vibrating? Time to grab your clothes and start folding. The devices will use AllJoyn, a system by which devices can communicate information to other devices around them. This may be something as simple as a push notification to your phone about that laundry we mentioned or setting up a program to run on multiple ovens and cooktops to automate the cooking of your dinner to have it done at the exact time you want it.

LG will also raise the curtain on the Smart Lightwave Oven and Smart Air Conditioner which have the same AllJoyn connectivity. The Smart Lightwave Oven can alert you to when your food is done and the Smart Air Conditioner can do it one better by letting you know when you have to replace your air filter! Pretty cool stuff.

What do you think? Do we need a new wave of connected appliances or is this just innovation for innovation’s sake? Will this catch on or will it be go the way of consumer 3D TVs? Let us know in the comments where you see this technology going.

Source: AndroidCentral

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