Technology is evolving rapidly, impacting the way we live and the world we live in. New home technology is reinventing our most intimate space—the home.
“On the application side, new technology starts with the 5 Cs – comfort, convenience, cost, companionship, compliance,” said Stuart Lipoff, a partner at IP Action Partners speaking to the content of IEEE’s report, The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond: an IEEE Global Study.
Starting With Comfort
Lipoff says some new technology can create simulations and modeling of the home and all of its performance, including analyzing current energy use to then try different variations and look at cost benefits of tying it together with government incentives.
“The simulation can bring in different rules on subsidies, compliance, what are the benefits, financing, and tie into various packages offered by contractors,” he said.
This type of home technology brings the peace of better knowledge to the contractor, and also delivers the satisfaction of a lower energy bill and the comfort of more regulated temperatures.
One company currently doing that is a spinoff from LG Electronics innovation platform, LG NOVA, called Climative.
“LG NOVA was formed to extend beyond hardware and we’re using AI in the home to help people’s lives be simpler, easier, healthier,” said Limor Schafman, director of strategy and cleantech lead at LG NOVA. “We have a model to work with startups, to select them to look at what to build together with them and launch, specifically looking at AI, cleantech, digital health and wellness in the home space. It’s a natural extension because we have appliances.”
Another innovative appliance manufacturer is aimed at disrupting our antiquated heating and cooling industry.
Scott Kirkendall, director of Panasonic’s IAQ business unit, discussed the six values of the company’s new system OASYS. Panasonic developed it to address increased demands on heating and cooling from more dramatic climate shifts, along with changes to refrigerant management, and to support the gas to electric transition.
From a comfort perspective, Kirkendall says that OASYS is quiet, offers a uniform temperature and even humidity across the home, provides cleaner air, is easy to maintain and repair, and extends the life of the home.
“It always delivers plus or minus one degree from the furthest point in the home and from floor to ceiling,” he said. “Multiple sensors will be throughout the home to measure temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, partial pressure of oxygen… you can have as many sensors as you want.”
He explains that this reimagined heating and cooling system has about the same initial cost as a traditional system, but with additional benefits. When comparing a home operating at the code minimum to Panasonic’s concept home with the OASYS system, the concept was 53% more efficient, and cut overall cost by 32%.
Home Technology For Convenience
Convenience is critical and even expected now by younger homebuyers.
Appliance manufacturing company Bosch has more than 1,500 patents focused on AI and is leveraging those to create a seamless experience for the homeowner.
Bosch and Amazon launched a partnership using the Matter standard to unify all its technology under one protocol. Previously, selecting smart home technology was dictated by its ability to integrate with other devices in the home, but with technologies that use the Matter standard, that is no longer a barrier.
“You don’t have to use just one technology now because Matter delivers the interoperability and makes it a simplified experience,” said Hal Strong, connectivity solutions marketing manager at Bosch. “The Bosch 100 Series fridge is compatible so you can monitor and adjust the temperature, and get notifications on the app like you left the door open to the fridge.”
Artificial intelligence-powered features in the Bosch Series 8 oven include cameras that recognize the food and can suggest the ideal settings for 80 dishes to individual browning detection for food that’s cooking.
None of it is possible though when the power goes out, which is happening on a more frequent basis. More than two-thirds of U.S. homeowners experienced a power outage last year, according to off-grid resiliency company BioLite.
The company launched Backup by BioLite, a self-installed backup energy system that can deliver 60 hours of reliable, always-on, reserve power. The system can be self-installed in 30 minutes as an affordable way to keep critical devices, such as a refrigerator, running for up to 60 hours.
The company reports that traditional home backup power can cost around $15,000 and can take months to install, but BioLite can be installed by the homeowner in less than an hour. There’s certainly comfort in that.
Home Technology To Save Cash
Lowering costs with technology can take all different forms—from time and resource efficiencies to operational efficiencies.
“Technology allows us to monitor energy to keep cost down,” Lipoff said. “It also helps with budgeting and allowing us to run simulations with digital twins to add insulation or low-E windows to see the impact on energy costs and monitoring budgets on an ongoing basis. It also can make recommendations when purchasing products with various options and deliver value for the spend.”
At the 2025 CES conference, energy solutions company, EcoFlow, showed OASIS, a revolutionary AI-powered home energy management system. OASIS uses AI for real-time monitoring so homeowners can manage it based on their demands and preferences.
“From charging your EV at the lowest cost to preparing for extreme weather, OASIS handles the guesswork with flexible, innovative, reliable, simple, and thorough power solutions,” said Peter Linghu, director of product strategy and development at EcoFlow.
Factors like past energy usage, local electric rates, home solar energy generation and weather patterns help the system create custom recommendations and automations, such as keeping batteries charged ahead of severe weather, or helping users make smarter energy decisions to save money.
Combining cost savings and convenience, the platform can respond to spoken questions like, “How can I maximize my solar energy usage today?” OASIS not only offers suggestions to maximize energy, but with the user’s permission, it can automatically put those recommendations into action. For example, it can run high-power appliances like air conditioners and washing machines on stored solar energy instead of grid power during peak pricing periods.
As a first for the industry, OASIS integrates with third-party devices compatible with Matter to provide a single-source view of energy sources alongside real-time consumption data.
The OASIS software is free, but the hardware has to be purchased first to access the app and the platform.
GE Proseo smart lighting and shading solutions also showed an agnostic control system that can be operated with both Google and Alexa voice commands at the 2025 CES. Besides being able to be told what to do, the blinds also offer a 20 to 25% boost in energy efficiency according to Christopher Nelson, a senior product manager at Savant.
The company’s new technology extends to a holistic solution—the Savant Smart Budget is an affordable way to electrify a home using Savant Power Modules that can be added into an existing electrical panel, along with the software that manages panel output, so demand never exceeds a home’s capacity. Ian Roberts, vice president of marketing at Savant Systems, said that users can use an app to prioritize how and when power is used in the home by monitoring live consumption, shedding unnecessary loads, and balancing usage.
Home Technology Social Experience
As social isolation is targeted more as an epidemic across the country, companionship is more and more important.
Lipoff points to new technologies that offer companionship, such as speakers and chat robots that can have interactions with homeowners similar to interacting with other human beings.
“Technologies have the ability to do a lot more than monitor health,” he said. “Technology in the home can deal with children or elderly if there is a problem, and can be programmed to watch for hazardous behavior.”
Akshita Iyer, CEO and founder of Ome, a smart stove knob showcased at 2025 CES, shares her ideas about how kitchens and homes will be adopting technology in the future.
“We have to be looking at ecosystems that will be sustainable and useful for the next 10 years,” she said. “That can bridge the gap between many sensors to create an experience for the customer.”
With its personalization features and ability to cater to needs and wants, the home will become a central character in the household. Akshita envisions a ‘companion kitchen’ that is a space that adapts to the user’s lifestyle, enhances safety, and promotes healthier living without the need for a manual.
“Kitchens will anticipate user needs — preheating ovens or adjusting recipes for health goals,” she wrote. “Motion, gesture, and sensors will react to passive behaviors — lowering burner heat or suggesting meals based on pantry contents. Appliances will adapt to habits and tastes, improving results and accessibility for aging populations and people with disabilities. Smart kitchens will actively reduce food waste and energy use through zero-waste fridges and real-time monitoring.”
Compliance At Home
It’s interesting to think about technology for compliance, but it can happen in all parts of our home experience.
“Compliance with the government to pay bills on time, parents monitoring social media, provide agent-based services to know what you are supposed to do, safety looking for concerns or unusual behavior with the occupants of the home,” Lipoff listed as examples. “Also, security to monitor the outside of the home and connection to law enforcement, fire intrusion, smoke or hazardous environment.”
Another way to think about compliance is with home maintenance.
“You also can have compliance with reactive or preventive maintenance,” Lipoff said. “You can have conditioned-based monitoring or have devices that have engines that are monitored 100% of the time and can automatically call in a contractor to fix an issue.”
These technologies tie into the growing demand for digital twins that can create a simulation of the home to view updates to the home and how the updates might impact energy usage or costs.
In addition, augmented realty allows us the ability to visualize different concepts, different window and surface treatments, and have more confidence going into major remodeling projects.
Iyer, from Ome, developed the smart stove knob for safety compliance because unattended cooking is the number one cause of house fires, and the appliances that are at the root only last 10 to 15 years.
“Ome’s smart knob connects to WiFi and has a built-in engine so you know every time you turn your burner on where it is and how long it has been on,” Iyer said. “Because of the motor, you can turn it off if you leave it on by accident just by using the connected app, and also check to make sure it is off if you leave the house.”
The knob can be installed on gas and electric stoves as part of the growing demand for assistive technologies as more homeowners are choosing to age in place.
“New, intuitive design will listen to voice, gestures, and adaptive controls to make kitchens user-friendly for all ages and abilities,” Iyer said.
The Complex Home Technology Future
The complexity of the home technology ecosystem is being simplified with the likes of Matter and the massive players supporting it. Interoperability will help startups gain traction and speed the evolution of home technology.
Yet, smart home technology still has some moral implications and barriers to cross that have been discussed for years—what is privacy? When is technology invasive? That will take longer to solve.
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