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The smart home wouldn't exist without this '90s invention - CNET
Jun 04, 2020 1 min, 15 secs

Commentary: Wi-Fi was the missing piece that made the smart home whole.

Decades before it became widespread, she even used the phrase "smart home." But she also said that something was missing: "What the home automation community is waiting for is an industry standard that would tell builders and remodelers how to wire homes for total automation.".

But connecting a smart home with wires wouldn't be the standard the industry was waiting for.

Without Wi-Fi, the smart home industry wouldn't exist.

And without reliable Wi-Fi, today's smart home wouldn't work.

But Wi-Fi, the "industry standard" that would enable wireless connectivity and automation in a whole new way, wouldn't be introduced until 1997. .

Or just multiple smart devices in general

The number of cables and cords connecting them to broadband would make the smart home -- especially the DIY smart home -- extremely cumbersome. 

By connecting smart home devices to the internet, and thus the cloud, Wi-Fi also enables access to expanded features

Natural language processing for smart speakers, usage pattern algorithms to make your smart thermostat run more efficiently, and video image processing so your smart video doorbell can distinguish a person from a passing car often occurs on computers in the cloud that you couldn't access without Wi-Fi to bridge the gap from your home out to the larger internet. 

Without Wi-Fi, designers, engineers and other product developers might not have even been able to dream up the smart home devices we use today, let alone enable the thousands of integrations among them

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