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Prototypes of home appliances. Trends.

The development of home appliance prototypes is consistent with the increase in business volume shown by innovative home products in the world’s main marketplaces. The smart home products category has shown growth of more than 8% consecutively over the last 3 years.

What is a home appliance prototype?

A home appliance prototype is understood as the first unit of a product in which its benefits and functions can be demonstrated. Specifically, in the case of home appliance prototypes, these are devices whose main functions are controlled with electronic solutions and increasingly intelligent control layers.

Innovation trends in home products.

There are 4 irrefutable arguments that justify the commercial opportunities for new home appliance inventions and that also indicate that creating inventions that make life at home easier is a clear trend.

Emergence of technologies consistent with users’ lifestyles

The development of IoT products and new AI products clearly adds value to the dynamics of home life.

Technological products with the ability to make decisions based on the user’s preferences.
Products that learn from user behavior to customize their operating logic.
Products that receive voice commands and are capable of controlling multiple home devices through this system.
Products capable of anticipating risk situations and adding value to user safety.
Tecnologías que facilitan los trabajos físicos o tareas domésticas.

These are some of the new scenarios that drive the development of new home inventions, which become mass-market products through the main platforms.

Users’ commitment to environmental care.

Life in society and in private homes demonstrates users’ responsible habits towards environmental conservation. There are many home appliance prototypes that reinforce or are aligned with users’ responsible behavior:

Prototypes of water filtration, purification, and remineralization machines, aimed at avoiding the indiscriminate use of single-use plastic.
Prototypes that minimize the use of chemicals and sensitive materials in cleaning processes.
Home appliance prototypes aimed at optimizing water use in household tasks, such as cleaning or bathing.
Smart home prototypes aimed at minimizing the use of less sustainable energy sources.

Products adapted to the new needs of logistics.

The miniaturization of home appliances, made possible by new technological advances democratized for the creation of inventions, is an increasingly common goal among startups, inventors, and creative teams. Achieving home products that are efficient while also optimizing management, storage, and logistics costs is becoming more feasible, given the accessibility of robust, affordable, and easily programmable microcontrollers, as well as the development of multiple sensors and actuators compatible with the main control technologies.

Safety of home appliance prototypes.

The perception of safety is a key argument in the decision-making and purchasing of innovative home appliances. This argument refers not only to the safety embedded in the appliance itself, but also to the sense of safety that this type of home product can convey or provide:

Very small home appliance prototypes that can detect almost all types of toxic gases that may be present inside a home and pose a risk to its occupants.
Smart lock prototypes that eliminate existing vulnerability points over time.

Home-use camera prototypes with layers of artificial intelligence, not only capable of detecting risk situations but, in some cases, even predicting emergency situations.

Main challenges of smart home appliance prototypes.

In addition to providing clear value to users, the innovation process for creating innovative home products must keep in focus 5 criteria that are essential to avoid affecting their chances of success.

Aesthetic coherence of home appliance prototypes.

The perception of whether an innovative home product is beautiful or not is entirely subjective. However, in aesthetic product design, there is the principle of coherence. The challenge of achieving aesthetic coherence in home appliance prototypes is not about the need to design beautiful products, but rather about creating product designs that combine in the best possible way with the greatest variety of décor styles.

Competition for space.

Home spaces are becoming increasingly compact, while decorative and household products are becoming more accessible. These variables limit the market penetration possibilities of new home products. For this reason, it is key that home appliance prototypes are designed to compete for highly contested spaces.

Lifespan of home appliances.

Users are increasingly resistant to the purchase of home technology products with very limited lifecycles. Commitment to the environment is one of the arguments that directly opposes home appliance prototypes made with low-cost materials that pose a risk during their lifecycle.

Annoyance caused by false positives.

The early inclusion of AI-powered home appliances in the market represents the exposure of AI models that are not truly validated. This early exposure of AI home inventions leads to constant false positives, which affect the user experience and consumer confidence in this type of product.

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