One very sophisticated SHaaS application is family lifestyle monitoring. GreenPeak (now part of Qorvo) recently announced the Family@Home system that enables resident and parents to monitor what is happening in the house. However, it does a lot more. It is a smart system that can learn what is normal for the household and can take action if something out of the expected occurs, like the kids cutting school and coming home to have a party when the parents are not around.

The family lifestyle system uses sensors, connected devices, cloud intelligence and social media to combine a variety of important services into a simple to use app that enables service providers to make their customer’s lives easier and more secure.

SHaaS is like having a butler in your house, who can assist the family by turning off lights and the heating when nobody is in a room or locking back doors when that was forgotten. It is a collection of services that analyzes input from the smart home sensors, learns how the family lives and how the home is used, and can make intelligent decisions to make homes more comfortable, safer and more energy efficient.