Home appliances get smarter

By Yoon Ja-young

The smart revolution is spreading from the palm of your hands to reach inside your home.

TVs, which have been at the vanguard of evolution in home appliances, being made available in color from black and white and then from analogue to digital, are leading this next transformation with smart devices, offering content through the Internet and working as a communication hub. More traditional home appliances like refrigerators, ovens and washers are following the path to smartness.

The most notable feature of smart home appliance is the expansion of connectivity. “The smart home appliances involved the smart grid when they were first developed. They focused on the efficient management of energy, but they will strengthen connectivity with computers or mobile devices based on network technology in further development, on top of making consumers’ life more convenient,” Lee