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Manage Your Smart Home with a Single Gesture


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WiSee technology

WiSee technology uses multiple antennas to focus on one user to detect the person's gesture.

Credit: The University of Washington

Our homes will get a lot smarter in the coming years, allowing us to use a smartphone to manage an integrated system of appliances and other electronics from any room—a kind of universal remote control for the "Internet of things." An even easier, more intuitive approach, however, would allow us to flip through TV channels or turn on the coffeemaker with a simple hand wave.

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