Smart rooms connect various devices or tools through the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve the convenience of the rooms for users. For example: hotel smart rooms manipulate the temperature of guest rooms per the guests’ preferences, while hospital smart rooms adjust patients’ beds automatically to avoid bedsores. Smart offices in the business sector can help meet company green objectives by adjusting power usage throughout the week.
Now all these industries are turning to artificial intelligence like AI computers for even greater capability and solutions.
What is a Smart Room?
A smart room connects various advanced systems and tools called “smart devices” to perform or meet certain operations and objectives. While specific smart room technologies vary per industry, most contain the following in one form or another:
- Automation: The system that controls the devices without manual intervention. Automation occurs due to a pre-set schedule, exterior inputs like temperature changes, or through other inputs like voice commands or programs from a rugged mini PC.
- Internet of Things (IoT): This network connects the various devices involved, usually via Wi-Fi and through the Internet. IoT is an essential part of smart rooms and similar applications like smart buildings.
- Sensors: These devices detect specific physical inputs such as light, motion, and temperature.
What is AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) looks to simulate human thinking processes in computer systems. AI does so by processing large amounts of data through various algorithms.
This incredible feat is accomplished through several means.
- Machine learning, in which the computer learns from data without being programmed for a specific goal.
- Deep learning, or DL, is similar to machine learning but uses artificial neural networks.
- Cognitive computing closely mimics how human beings think.
- Computer vision employs pattern recognition and DL to understand visual content like images and video.
- Natural language processing, or NLP, analyzes human language and responds in a human-like fashion. ChatGPT is the most well-known example of NLP.
Smart rooms gather the data for AI, which in turn reacts accordingly depending on its purpose.
Benefits of Smart Rooms with AI
Smart rooms equipped with the right AI tools aim to make their spaces more intuitive, immersive, and seamless for their users, allowing them to focus on their tasks more efficiently and effectively.
The specific benefits of smart rooms with AI technologies vary per industry (hospitality) and even within it (e.g., lodgings like hotels).
Hotel Smart Rooms
- Hotel guests can personalize their stays even more so, with smart rooms adjusting lighting, temperature, and entertainment at the guests’ whim. AI can provide even more options and settings based on the guests’ previous visits.
- Smart rooms with AI can aid housekeeping and maintenance departments by scheduling guest room visits with minimum disruption (predictive analytics).
- Smart rooms with advanced surveillance systems and AI tools can monitor public rooms, offices, and facilities 24/7 for unusual activities or safety hazards without human operators. The AI can then alert hotel staff in real-time of any problem, ensuring maximum safety of both guests and staff.
Hospital Smart Rooms
- The AI-powered smart rooms in hospitals can allow patients to control the room lights, blinds, temperature, and TVs with voice commands. AI can provide more features, such as watching patients for signs of distress. Freed from such routine tasks, nurses and other medical staff can focus on more urgent work and patients with acute illnesses.
- IoT devices and sensors built into the patient’s hospital beds can sense pressure throughout the mattress, automatically adjusting the hardness or softness of specific areas to keep the patient comfortable while reducing the likelihood of bedsores. AI can provide more precise adjustments, including those based off the patient’s previous stays at the hospital.
- In smart rooms equipped with NLP, providers can update electronic medical records in real-time. They verbalize their diagnosis, and the room’s AI transcribes the information into the EMR as well as fills in any required fields. More advanced algorithms may even perform medical coding, further reducing the provider’s workload and possible burnout.
Office Smart Rooms
- Office smart rooms, also called workspace smart rooms, can adjust heating, cooling, and lighting based on room occupancy and use. Those with AI can provide even greater refinement, allowing companies to reduce energy consumption and costs further, especially when meeting sustainability goals.
- The smart room’s AI-controlled cameras and microphones can direct them to dynamically track speakers during virtual meetings to ensure all participants feel like they’re in the same space, no matter where they are located in real life.
- Finally, smart rooms can constantly provide data when they’re in use (or not), making it easy to schedule meetings in real-time and avoid schedule conflicts.
Choosing the Right Smart Room Computer with AI
Computers primarily used in the workspace should be built from the ground up by a true computer manufacturer. Users are thus assured their PCs can handle the unique requirements of their industry. Computers used in hospital smart rooms, for example, should be medical grade to protect patients, while office smart rooms should be equipped with enterprise computers with low fail rates to ensure all features work consistently and dependably.
IT departments tasked to research and purchase the AI computers and tools used by their industry’s smart rooms should make sure they have the following:
- Graphic Processing Unit or GPU, which performs the intense parallel processing necessary during DL and NLP. The GPU is a critical part of AI tools for smart room operations.
- Central Processing Unit or CPU for handling non-AI operations like data storage and accessory connectivity.
- Memory and data storage (RAM and HDD / SDD) are necessary, given the sheer amount of data handled by AI applications and processes. Companies should purchase as much of both for their AI PCs as their budget allows.
Equip Your Smart Rooms With Cybernet AI Computers
Smart rooms aim to improve users’ functionality and goals through the interconnectivity of devices like sensors and automation. Artificial intelligence expands such functionality with new features like more precise real-time reactions and predictive analytics.
Contact the team at Cybernet Manufacturing if your business looks to enable AI tools in your smart rooms. Team members will happily go over the special features of our various computer lineups that make them the AI computer solution you’re looking for.