七款最实用的智能家居设备

    各公司正在迅速地推出一系列智能家庭设备，可以让你用智能手机打开百叶窗或关灯，或是利用你的电冰箱发微博。【感谢三星（Samsung）吧。】

    《财富》（Fortune）杂志仔细研究了一堆新产品，对比了用户的评论和产品描述，列出了7款市面上最好用的智能家居设备。我们略过了一些流行产品，比如锁具（可以用智能手机控制开关）和灯泡（可以用智能手机开关或调节其亮度），因为我们没有在其中看到将自动化和简洁结合于一体的亮点。以下的产品确实是我们很想拥有的。

    家庭监控：Canary（249美元）

    Companies are quickly introducing an array of smart home appliances that let you use your smartphone to open your blinds or turn off your lights, and, yes, tweet from your fridge. (Thank you Samsung.)

    At Fortune, we waded through the piles of gadgets and gizmos, comparing user reviews and product descriptions, to list seven of the most useful smart home devices on the market. We skipped over some popular products like locks (you can open and close them with your smartphone) and light bulbs (you can turn them on or off or dim them with your phone), because we couldn’t find anything hitting the sweet spot in combining automation with simplicity. Here’s what did make our wish list.

    Home Surveillance: Canary ($249)

    研究公司IHS进行的一项消费者调查发现，人们最想要的智能家居设备需要能够发现家中的入侵者。排名第二的是一些能够发现着火、漏水和一氧化碳的设备。初创公司Canary推出的这款产品同时满足了这两个要求，可谓一箭双雕。其光滑的圆柱体中配有高清摄影机、麦克风、运动检测器，以及温度与湿度感应器。这款设备也叫做Canary，它能够在你离家时察觉异常状况。随后你会收到附带录像片段的警报，还可以选择处理方式。当你到家时，Canary也会自动改变设置，以免在你晚上想来点牛奶和饼干时，被运动检测器发现并示警。

    A consumer survey by research firm IHS found that most desired smarthome device is is something that detects intruders. The second is for a device that detect hazards like fires, water leaks, and carbon monoxide. Start-up Canary kills two birds with one machine by packaging an HD video camera, microphone, motion detector, and a temperature and humidity sensor into a sleek cylinder. When the machine, also called Canary, senses something out of the ordinary happening when you’re away from home, you get an alert with video footage and options for responding. Canary, also automatically changes its settings when you get home so the motion detector doesn’t go off when you want some late night milk and cookies.