Home, it’s where the heart is. There’s no place like it.

The romanticized image of a home is the place where you return after a day of hard work, to find your partner, your dog and your children. Everything is placed around a big piece of furniture called the TV, where you get some moments of relaxation and your dinner before heading to the bedroom.

Preferably your home has a dinning area you only use 3 times a year, a pool you only used for the first two years, and a luxury car, parked in the garage, that is getting too expensive to run daily, and is limited to the weekend and special occasions.

But as live changes so does the idea of the ideal home. The home of the future, is a flexible space for digital natives who value location over square footage. These homes are constructed to whatever regionally agreed-upon aesthetic is currently trending on Instagram. It’s efficient and built using sustainable processes and materials because there’s no other choice.

Your future home is, more than anything else, connected. It’s a place where the home is the computer. It’s always listening and always watching, yet it still, somehow, manages to secure your privacy as well as your belongings. It is adaptable but comfortable, a respite from the urban jungle and a place to savor those face-to-face encounters that have largely been supplanted by the virtual unrealities of modern life.

Life in general is changing and this will also change the way we live, technology is changing typical jobs and it will most definitely change our homes, so maybe as we train in different skills in order to prepare ourselves for the jobs of the future maybe is time to prepare our home for the way it will be in the not so distant future.

But what kinds of jobs can we expect in the future? When most of the world’s manufacturing has merged around the rigid supply chains of Southeast Asia. When robots have replaced warehouse workers, kitchen staff, and hotel cleaners. When AI has replaced truck drivers, legal aids, and money managers. When main street retailers have all shut down because the neighborhood Supermarket is now a highly automated distribution center offering one-hour delivery, and everyday items like Tupperware can be made at home on your 3D printer. Changes to our traditional means of work will almost certainly affect where we live and how a home is used.

Today you can have a fully connected home complete with sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, air quality, energy usage, and more, and check in on almost any appliance from anywhere in the world with just a smartphone. But even with all of the various connected appliances, virtual assistants, and copious sensors that can be installed in a modern smart home, the “smart” side of things is still rather lacking.

But wouldn’t it be cool if my home was smart enough to figure out that activity in the house has dwindled and everyone has gone to bed on its own without requiring me to complete a command or set it to a specific time? Or that it’s now summer vacation, so my family is sleeping in later or going to bed later than during the chaotic school year? Or maybe the food cupboard and refrigerator are able to figure out what foods my family eats the most and restock those with automatic delivery from the grocery store?

Taking the first step to future-proof your home for when this exciting time comes is a consultation with our Smart Home System experts at SkyHub.

“The future depends on what you do today.”

― Mahatma Gandhi