The latest report published by the Reuters news agency shows us how the manufacturer of the well-known Romba wants to expand rapidly in the field of smart homes while collecting information about our home.
According to this report, the company's Romba vacuum cleaner will soon start to collect the cartographic information of our homes to sell it to tech companies like Apple to help improve their system to create the smartest homes possible.
IRobot CEO Colin Angle says that with the expansion of smart devices, the home mapping done by these smart vacuums is very valuable information for companies get an idea of how they are designed, the number of devices they have connected, their distribution…. in order to improve their new products.
There is a complete ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can offer once the address has been mapped and the user has allowed that information to be shared.
Reuters claims that Amazon, Apple and even Alphabet are fans of technology. The company wants to fsign an agreement with one of these big three in a couple of years, which would allow them to share the maps of the homes where these devices are located to improve the design of the next smartphone models and their accessories. One analyst claims that Apple could use that data to improve surround sound systems to match home acoustics. It can also be used to improve the operation of devices that regenerate air in rooms ...
All this is very nice but what about the privacy of the user. The company signs that will not sell any mapping data created by these devices to third parties without customer consent, but affirms that it will not be an arduous task. Presumably, the exact location of the data that the company can sell will not be found, since it could be a major security problem if this data falls into the hands of someone else's friends.