Apple HomeKit

Apple HomeKit, what is it? It is basically your home connected everywhere at any time, i.e. reachable from your mobile phone. Let us say for instance that you go away for the weekend. You do not need the same power that you needed before, right? Less power to be used is a cost saving to you. You can visit the HomeKit developers page for now, that is available. Set your home into zones, connect all the devices, it is all part of the internet of things. Things being devices that we would not necessarily associate with having connectivity, more recently we accept that TV's, fridges, cars, all our lighting and central heating/cooling systems will be integrated into the phones/notebooks/tablets that already connect to the TV. One extra "thing" to remember, the Internet of Things has an acronym that I saw for the first time, memorise it, it is here: IoT.

The first devices to use the Apple HomeKit won't surprise you, locks (no more keys) and garages (no more remotes), equally alarm systems activated with your voice via Siri. This does not always apply here, in the harsher environment of North America, (your Cape Town winters), most of Europe, all of Asia north of Southern Japan, heating is more important. Remembering that most people who could help it, did not live in the tropics as a result of more diseases prevalent in those areas. Nowadays we have vaccines, humans are working hard to find ways to make malaria a thing of the past. That important note aside, the Apple HomeKit is a small step in delivering savings on energy bills and completely integrated houses. About that security ....... (dot dot dot) Release date? Sometime in June, although some are suggesting that there is a delay on the cards, perhaps that would be pushed out to August or September.