The Concept of a Smart Home: Security, Additional Features and Augmented Reality

The concept of a smart home and a smart city recently has often become used as a fashionable and new direction. However, this combination is almost not specified, the various opinions about what does it mean are very different. Sometimes equipping an apartment building with an Internet network, video monitoring or separate waste bins are understood as the implementation of the Smart Home concept. Sometimes energy saving, alternative energy sources, environmental technologies are added here. Although such innovations are useful, they are not identical to the new approach that is expected with the introduction of such terminology, such as the Smart Home. In this paper, the critical features are given, according to the totality of which at home can be classified as smart, also given the classification of technologies used and planned for use. The concept of the Smart Home and Smart City fits into the state program “Digital Economy of Russia”, so it is advisable to consider it in conjunction with the developed technologies of this State Program. Equipping a dwelling with separate useful technical solutions based on digital technologies provides only a quantitative accumulation of amenities. A qualitative breakthrough towards a Smart Home can be made on the basis of the transfer to the control systems of a determining number of functions without loss of reliability, manageability, and individuality of the home. The paper examines technologies that allow providing the full range of tasks in close connection with digital technologies and their sub-technologies, in particular, these related to virtual and augmented reality.