SYNOPSIS
This is a book that explains the history of home automation, the current problems we are facing to fully automate the home and the best solution to solve the current problems to automate homes.
By the end of the book you will conclusively agree that the solution for full home automation provided in the book is the best solution and the future of home automation.
Table of contents
- Synopsis.
- The Dream.
- MAMA architecture.
- How MAMA architecture will be introduced into society.
- Inner workings of MAMA architecture.
- Why doesn’t MAMA technology exist?
- How MAMA architecture differs from current technology?
- Advantages of MAMA architecture
- Disadvantages of MAMA architecture
- Conclusion
The dream
The home is one of the most important structures in our lives since it’s the primary place we obtain the 5 important basic needs which are food, shelter, clothes, energy and water.
The dream to automate the home has been in the public conscious for a long time but it is yet to become a reality, in other words, the chore free home doesn’t exist without the help of house workers.
Since we achieved a chore free home through house workers, the first wave of home automation enthusiasts believed that the best way to automate home chores such as cleaning dishes, cleaning clothes, cleaning the house etc. was through the creation of humanoids who will do all the house work.
But as time went on, people realized that creating humanoid robots to do all our house chores was harder than expected and the best way to automate the home is to simply create machines that can do a certain task.
This era of specific machines to do a specific task instead of a humanoid that can do all tasks was much more successful in terms of automating the home with the famous innovations such as washing machines, dish washers, microwaves, gas cookers, fridges, ovens etc. which allowed for the first time, home chores to be performed by machines with a little help by people allowing houses to be easily manageable.
This era also liberated women from the home and allowed them to enter the work force allowing them to earn a living and directly lead to the different waves of the women revolution.
This is the era we are still in with people now having numerous appliances such as vacuum cleaners, washing machines, driers, dish washers etc.
NOTE: This era didn’t reduce the cost of living and instead increased the convenience for people through saving them time. The microwave didn’t reduce the cost of heating up food but simply made it more convenient and saved time.
But as many people have already realized, this era will not lead us to full automation of our homes since it has been more than 50 years and the machines are yet to automate any chore completely. For example:
The washing machine helps wash clothes but you still have to load the clothes, put the detergents, set up the machine and remove the clothes once the machine is done with them.
The microwave heats up food but you still have to load the food, set up the machine and unload the food.
So all home automation machines still have to be operated and maintained by a human being and hence people still have chores to do to help machines perform their tasks.
The following are reasons why we couldn’t make the leap of making these technologies do chores without any human help:
Lack of space in our homes
The first reason we couldn’t make the leap of making these technologies do chores without human help is the lack of space in our homes.
Currently people creating home automations are restricted to create compact machines that can fit into the already crowded homes.
Many homes already have many appliances such as washing machines, driers, dish washers, cookers, fridges, ovens etc. so any additional appliance that helps in home automation needs to be small and compact to fit into the kitchens, living rooms or stores of the homes.
This restricts creators of home machines to put size before quality or capacity making it hard to make fully automated machines.
Cost of fully automated machines
The second reason we couldn’t make the leap of making these technologies do chores without human help is the cost of fully automated machines.
Currently there are already prototype machines that can cook any food automatically, fully wash and store dishes automatically etc.
These have been used to showcase the future of home cooking and have been met with a lot of enthusiasm and excitement.
Unfortunately most have been unable to become mainstream due to their high prices that most people are either unable to afford them or have deemed them too expensive for the problem they are solving.
There are also prototype machines for folding clothes, handling washing clothes etc. but they have all met the same fate as the cooking machines i.e. they have been deemed too expensive for the average consumer.
After discussing why these technologies couldn’t lead to the full automation of the home, let us now discuss the next evolution that is needed to fully automate the homes:
MAMA architecture
MAMA architecture consists of self cleaning houses connected to a fully automated food hub that handles all chores involved with food and a fully automated clothes hub that handles all chores involved with clothes saving people time and increasing convenience in the home.
When people need food they order from the food hub through an app and it’s brought to them through pods that pass through small tunnels. Once they finish eating they return the dirty dishes to the food hub in pods that pass through the small tunnels. The dishes are then automatically cleaned and stored.
When people need clothes they order from the clothes hub through an app and it’s brought to them through pods that pass through small tunnels. Once they finish wearing the clothes, they return the dirty clothes to the clothes hub in pods that pass through the small tunnels. The clothes are then automatically cleaned and stored.
The houses don’t have a kitchen, closets etc. allowing them to be simple enough to be designed to be fully cleaned by autonomous robots that can also pass through the small tunnels.
After discussing how MAMA architecture functions, let us now discuss how it handles the 2 biggest causes of making us not able to fully automate our homes:
Cost of fully automated machines
We discussed that fully automated machines exist but were too expensive for the average home.
MAMA architecture will allow these machines to be adopted since they offer services to many people and need automations to reduce their costs hence the price of the machines won’t matter over the long run for the hubs.
So through MAMA architecture these machines will be able to be used efficiently allowing their price to be justified and finally allowing the automation of home chores and actually reducing the cost of living for the people who use the hubs.
Lack of space in our homes
We discussed that most homes lack the space to accommodate fully automated machines. MAMA architecture overrides the size problem since the automations of the food and clothes hub can be of any size as long as they help with fully automating the hubs.
The size constraint doesn’t come into question since the hubs are independent of any home allowing them to be as big as needed by the automations.
Through MAMA architecture all chores involved with food and clothes will be done in the food and clothes hub. These hubs can handle automations of any size as long as they help in the automation of the chores involved in the hubs.
So the full automation of cooking, washing dishes, washing clothes, storing clothes etc. will be much easier to be created in the hubs than in current houses due to the hubs allowing automations of different sizes.
MAMA architecture will also provide cleaning robots to be bigger and of higher quality because all appliances and space needed to handle food and clothes won’t be needed anymore.
One of the reasons cleaning robots are not as good as they can be is that most homes prioritize automations that help handle food and clothes rather than cleaning the house.
After understanding how MAMA architecture is able to finish the job of automating the home let us now look at how MAMA architecture will be introduced in a society:
Internet of transportation 