" LG " is a possibility of control and messaging devices with smart home soon

Announced the " LG " on Thursday its intention to harness the application of Instant Japanese " Line " (Line), so that users on the way of correspondence with the next generation of smart home appliances that would be revealed during the International Consumer Electronics Show , "CNN EES " ( CES 2014) to be held in January next year.

Where the South Korean company to this end include refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and other smart household appliances upcoming technology known as " natural language processing " (NLP), has also integrates a special service will be called " Home Chat " (HomeChat) with the application of Instant " Line . "

Thus, users will be able to control all home appliances compatible through communication through messages via the application " Line " , noting that the service will be available initially in English and Korean only , with a promise to support more languages ​​in the coming days , according to the " LG " .

According to the company , will support the four Home Appliances , initially this feature , a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner , washing machine and oven smartphone.

It should be noted that this initiative and others come at a time in which it recalled a recent study of the institution , " Gartner " (Gartner) for research into the growth of technology " Internet of Things " or Internet-connected devices , which excludes personal computers and computer tablet and smartphones , to $ 26 billion unit used by the year 2020 , representing an increase of 30-fold from 0.9 billion dollars in 2009 .