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Artificial intelligence cooks and washes... Learn about the most important innovations at the Berlin Electronics Show

The electronics market has long had smart speakers that can be controlled via voice assistant applications to play music, display weather, or broadcast news.

The activities of the Electronics Fair - known as "IFA" - in the German capital, Berlin, witnessed many companies presenting such innovations in home appliances.

Voice assistant

Siemens Home Appliances presented a refrigerator of the "IQ700" series equipped with the "open assist" system, which communicates with Amazon's voice assistant Alexa via the smart speaker "Echo Dot". (Echo Dot) or the kitchen assistant of the German company "Smart Kitchen Dock", which is scheduled to be launched in 2023, and this system, for example, open the refrigerator door so that the user does not have to put containers or purchases aside before opening it.

On the other hand, the new Siemens IQ700 series ovens or the Series 8 ovens from Bosch Home Appliances can now be operated via smart speakers or applications of the companies that produce these ovens.

When the user says, for example, the voice command, "Do you have potatoes or eggplant in the oven?" With a loud voice, the voice assistant applications will search for the appropriate cooking or baking programs, in addition to that food can be monitored through the camera installed in the corner of the oven, and the door can be opened in Siemens ovens via voice commands.

The user can also use the application-supported cooking instructions for electric stoves from the company "Miele" via the Amazon voice assistant, where the voice assistant explains the next step in the food preparation process or informs the user when the oil or pan is hot enough to cook the steak.

To take advantage of this function, the user must select the food recipe in the Mela application and send it to the screen of the Amazon smart speaker, "Echo Show", with a request from the Alexa voice assistant to open the cooking instructions, and from this moment on, the chef is guided to the cooking steps without The need to scroll the screen with fingers contaminated with fat and food residue.

Timing is controlled by sensors on the cooking ranges, algorithms evaluate the data, and work to ensure that the temperatures in the cookware are suitable for food preparation. The German company Mela stressed that "burning food has become a thing of the past," and this new function will be introduced starting in 2023.

artificial intelligence

The activities of the electronics exhibition witnessed a spotlight on artificial intelligence (AI) in the world of home appliances, as this type of device can better interact with the user, in addition to the increase in technology tasks and their better implementation.

This technological boom relied on the large data that the devices are constantly browsing, through the sharing of many users of the devices with their data with each other, or constantly supplying the devices with personal preferences, and thus the devices became able to adapt their steps to the current situation, and the longer the period of use of the devices, the more they You can analyze user behavior and become smarter.

To this end, the German companies - Miella, Bosch, and Siemens - relied on a high-resolution camera installed in the ovens, where the devices analyze their images and check the doneness of the food in the oven. In Miele ovens, the Smart Food ID program analyzes the food when it is placed in the oven and suggests the appropriate program for it, and when the required level of doneness is reached according to the oven camera data, the oven is automatically turned off..

Initially, the "Smart Food ID" system can recognize about 25 types of food, in addition to that it also learns through images of foods that the user imports from his cookbooks.

In addition, chefs can share their culinary skills with others, by sending photos of food in the oven via WhatsApp, Instagram, or Teams. Photos can also be edited and put tags and stickers on them to invite others.

And Bosch Home Appliances relied on artificial intelligence technologies in the new ovens of the "Series 8" series, as these devices compare data with thousands of joint cooking operations around the world, and in this way, the food maturity time is calculated in the oven space and updated every 30 seconds.

Rationalization of energy consumption

Artificial intelligence contributes to using some devices more efficiently, rationalizing energy consumption and saving expenses, as electric washing machines recognize the amount of laundry in them, and thus the appropriate washing program is automatically set and aligned, and such functions are usually constantly developed.

The activities of the electronics exhibition witnessed the presentation of Samsung (Samsung) new automatic washing machines of the Bespoke series, which is characterized by the washing function of artificial intelligence, as this function recognizes the type of textiles, the weight of the laundry and the degree of its soiling, and then it can choose the appropriate times for the soaking and rinsing cycles. And the afternoon.

In addition to expanding the applications of devices in some companies by adding new features to save energy, Samsung provides the ability to monitor the electric energy consumption in the automatic washing machines and dryers of the Bespoke series, with some tips to save energy, and the application of Miele in the future will demonstrate the possibilities of energy saving through Analyze the mean values of the hardware cycles.