The GSMA presents the "Connected House" of the future at Mobile World Congress 2012, Barcelona-- a model home of the future where virtually everything runs on wireless connections, from health monitors to social networking.
Powering the house are technologies from AT&T, KT and Vodafone, together with partners Accenture, Airbiquity, AQ Corporation, Cisco, Ericsson, Garmin, Herit, Intel, KTH, Modacom, Qualcomm, Rsupport, Sony and Zelitron.
Offerings inside include the Blue Libris emergency response system (a mobile health monitor) and Digital Life IP-based remote monitoring and automation platform from AT&T, the "Exmobaby Connected Baby Pajamas" (keeping tracks on sleeping babies) and what the GSMA describes as "a social media vending machine."
Meanwhile Vodafone shows off its energy management solution tracking lighting, heating, air conditioning and power consumption.
Robots also make part of the GSMA vision-- the KT Kibot robot teaches children reading, singing and even different languages, while offering "smart home" and monitoring services. Guess the babysitter's days are numbered, then.
