LG brings its AI Home vision to India: Promises appliances that think ahead
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LG’s AI Home concept has finally made its way into India this week, with a roadmap in which LG’s household appliances can go beyond being command-driven units and become devices which can learn about the needs of its users, act in a coordinated manner and minimize the effort involved in managing a house. In an event conducted in conjunction with a press tour, LG has made clear the idea behind this new venture, and highlighted India not only as a market but also as a partner in this global endeavor to manufacture AI-based home appliances.
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LG’s ThinQ – its artificial intelligence platform – according to the company, is at present entering into its third evolution stage. While the first stage involved simple remote operations such as controlling the AC via your smartphone, the second involved learning about the pattern of use through which the appliance could be used. It is in the third stage that LG claims its greatest innovations, where a generative artificial intelligence platform helps coordinate multiple devices together without the need for managing individual appliances.
At the heart of this effort is the ThinQ ON platform, which links together the appliances by integrating them via Homey’s platform, allowing the technology to be compatible with 50,000+ devices from more than 1,000 brands. The goal is to use ThinQ as the underlying system for a house with a mix of brands rather than the closed-loop solution it would become if all the devices came from LG.
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Specifically for India, LG highlighted its manufacturing bases at Greater Noida and Pune and the upcoming one in Sri City, all of which are a part of LG’s global roadmap for developing and shipping artificial intelligence devices. LG claims that its AI Wash 2.0 technology and new-age components are part of the plan for these factories, implying more than mere assembly work here.
What LG is essentially saying is that the smart home concept fell flat last time around due to the lack of coordination between devices. A smart thermostat learning your routines and a timer-based washing machine may be useful in their own right. But the real worth lies in the intelligence lying above these individual gadgets and the coordination between them as one system.
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