After doing some research on the leading contenders when it comes to digital home products i am now going to take some of the inspiration i gathered from that and try to discover my own idea for the project.

I started off by making a simple mind map and throwing in all of the ideas that i have surrounding this project,

I had quite a-lot of different features in mind, including a smart fridge, oven and sound activation for various reasons, but the main one that stuck out to me was the climate control/heating.

I feel like there is quite a-lot to explore in that because i haven’t actually heard of to many different types of a smart heating assistant.

I am going to make a refined mindmap that can highlight the features that i could be able to include in this and to see if it would actually make some sense to create aswell.

In the mindmap above i thought of some of the key features that this could include, i would say that the majority of them would make sense and become useful for the idea.

I thought that have a both control panel and mobile companion app for it would be handy aswell, having one in the wall in your house would make life easy as you could walk up and simply change it but for the likes of coming home unexpectedly you could set the heating to whatever you like by using the mobile app.

Aswell as maybe having a voice recognition feature on the control panel, you could just ask to schedule the heating or instantly change it.

I also had some other ideas that i didn’t know if i should include or not, them being

• You get an Alert if extreme cold or hot weather could damage pipes or be harmful to the like of pets.
• It could auto adjust to prevent any home damage.