Science bar "My smart home in 2050".

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 from 8 to 10 p.m.
Bar The Black Sheep - 21, Boulevard Louis Blanc - 34000 Montpellier
The advent of the connected home is upon us. The smart home is now hyper-connected and can be controlled remotely via a smartphone or tablet. We can already manage lighting, heating, audio-video, intruder alarms and many other devices using home automation.
Refrigerators will soon be equipped with tablets showing the expiry date of foodstuffs, the list of shopping to do in real time and what's left to eat. Coupled applications will even be able to draw up and plan menus for the week's meals, taking stored foodstuffs into account.
The smart home integrates a range of connected objects such as kitchen scales that monitor our diet, or toothbrushes that can alert us to abnormal tartar levels.
This evening debate, part of the Pint of Science Festival, will be hosted by five researchers:

• Robin Candau (Professor at the Faculty of Sports Sciences - University of Montpellier);
• Fany Cérèse - Doctor of Architecture ;
• Matthieu Compin (Instrumental design engineer - CNRS - IES Laboratory - University of Montpellier ;
• Alain Foucaran (Director, Institut d'Electronique et des Systèmes - IES);
• Anne Laurent (University Professor, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier - LIRMM).

By 2050, 75% of the world's population will live in cities, and 50 billion objects will be connected worldwide.
A study published by Navigant Research reveals that the number of city-dwellers worldwide will increase by 75% by 2050, from 3.6 to 6.3 billion. Against this backdrop, what will our homes look like in 2050?
The engineers and researchers working on this question are not just imagining a connected home, but an intelligent one that adapts to the needs, habits and tastes of each individual... A technological challenge, but also an ethical one, with the question of data use in particular.
Project HUT (Human at home projecT.): observatory of the apartment of the future
The speakers will present the HUT project: an observatory apartment, the first example of what tomorrow's housing will be like for us all.
It will enable our best researchers to answer some major scientific questions. What connected information will we share? How and why? How will we interact with intelligent housing? How can technology improve our living conditions?
What new laws and legislation are needed for the housing of the future?
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