Android and iOS are Now Targeting Overall Automation of Mobility

There is no denying the fact that smart devices have taken the mobility world with a storm creating a cosmos of connected devices across the globe. With this idea, many launches are being made in the area of home automation to render the monitoring of the devices at home to the users’ smartphones. This is also why the cloud services have been increasingly used in the past few years. Various custom mobility solutions have been created in order to take care of users’ needs and deliver more personalised usage of internet as well as applications to the users. Google and Apple are both making landmarks in the same area of home automation.

Apple made significant launches of Health Book App, Home kit, IOS 8, OS X 10.10 etc. in the recently held WWDC 2014. The Cupertino based company made announcements in regards to iPhones and home monitoring systems via WiFi. In the recently concluded I/O Conference held at the Moscone Centre at San Francisco, Google made important launches with respect to home automation and Internet of Things. The idea behind introducing Android L, Android Wear based smart watches, Android Auto and Android TV is to offer better communication between the user and his environment. This shall also improve the user interaction with his immediate surroundings and the devices that are incorporated in order to perform certain functionality.

Various important innovations in the Android Wear smartwatch and Android Auto were launched in the recently concluded I/O conference. Google maps and voice commands can be easily synced with the car through the use of Android Auto. Also the incoming messages on the Android smartphone can be replied via the same platform. By the launch of Android TV, Google has made its plans definite about automating homes. The channels can be flipped over with the use of the hand- held devices even when the user is not in the same room. There will be a further collaboration of the cloud services with music system, refrigerators, thermostats, washing machines etc. in order to fully control the user’s home environment.

Mobile apps developers have been taking severe pains in order to offer best solutions to render thorough user experience of the smart devices to the people. All such innovations are initially launched for the consumer sector. They further shift focus towards the enterprise sector, when consumers have well synced their work flows as per the working of the smart devices. Smart devices are also being augmented to cater to the growing needs and demands of the users. There are millions of apps for performing one function and the most usable one find its way through the users. While the devices are growing exponentially, the need to connect the data and devices together cannot be negated. An humble beginning to automate the homes through Android@Home ( Google Framework for automating homes) have been on the go since past few years. After gaining reasonable success in the same direction, Google would surely move on to successfully creating a web of data, devices and resources to improve the living and lifestyle of the users.