LG Electronics is preparing to showcase its vision for the future of smart living at IFA 2024, focusing on a fully integrated AI home experience. Under the theme “Experience, Affectionate Intelligence (AI) Home,” LG will present various advanced AI-powered solutions designed to enhance everyday life.
At the core of LG's Affectionate Intelligence Home is ThinQ ON, an AI hub developed to provide convenience and comfort by learning user habits and preferences. This system integrates with LG's latest AI appliances, offering a highly personalised experience by anticipating user needs and adjusting various home settings accordingly.
Visitors to LG's booth at IFA 2024 will first encounter the AI Home Gate, an immersive LED media wall showcasing how LG's AI technologies improve modern lifestyles. After passing through the gate, attendees can explore the ThinQ ON hub, which responds to natural language commands, allowing users to manage appliances, IoT devices, and services easily. This conversational AI aims to make managing home activities, such as bedtime routines and daily tasks, effortless and intuitive.
AI home solutions for all ages and lifestyles
One of the highlights of LG's presentation is the Second Youth Home, created to assist the elderly by making household tasks easier and enriching leisure time. ThinQ ON controls home appliances through voice recognition, enabling tasks like automatically running the dryer after the washing machine completes a cycle. It also provides helpful voice briefings, offers travel time estimates, and even assists with booking services like taxis. The overall goal is to reduce stress and simplify home management for older users.
LG introduces the Affectionate Home zone for families, where AI supports child and pet care. The Self-Driving AI Home Hub monitors connected appliances and sensors to adjust home settings, like activating Sleep Mode at bedtime. This feature dims lights and adds a starlight effect to create a calming sleep environment for children. It also helps with learning activities, turning children's drawings into stories using generative AI technology.
LG AI Home Solution also caters to pets, managing air quality and cleaning floors through connected devices. For example, LG's PuriCare Alpha Pet Double air purifier and DUALCOOL air conditioner automatically adjust based on sensor data. Additionally, LG introduces the AeroCat, a combination cat bed and air purifier that provides both a comfortable resting place for pets and improved air quality for their owners.
Sustainability and energy-efficient homes
In the Delightful Home zone, LG's AI solutions extend to the kitchen, where ThinQ ON offers personalised recipe suggestions and nutritional advice. Visitors can also watch live cooking demonstrations and see how the InstaView with MoodUP refrigerator enhances both culinary experiences and kitchen ambience.
Another key exhibit is the Smart Green Home, which showcases how LG's high-efficiency appliances, like the Therma V R290 Monobloc heat pump, work with AI to reduce energy consumption. ThinQ ON optimises energy usage in real-time, based on lifestyle patterns and electricity rates, helping homeowners manage power more efficiently. This AI-driven system is designed to save energy and reduce costs by managing the consumption of connected devices throughout the home.
A glimpse into the future of smart homes
LG's Affectionate Intelligence zone illustrates the scalability of its AI technology, with ThinQ ON acting as the central hub for a variety of IoT ecosystems. By integrating LG's proprietary generative AI and security solutions, the system ensures personalised home services and connects seamlessly with non-AI devices, allowing for a more inclusive AI home experience.
Visitors can also see how ThinQ ON works harmoniously with other LG systems, such as ThinQ UP and the ThinQ app, to create a customised smart home ecosystem. The exhibit further highlights LG's open AI platform, which integrates third-party services to offer a more comprehensive AI experience.
Lastly, the AI to the Core zone showcases LG's cutting-edge AI Core-Tech solutions, such as the AI DD and AI DUAL Inverter, which improve control, energy efficiency, and personalisation in everyday household tasks.
“Our Affectionate Intelligence Home solutions at IFA 2024 will enable customers to experience the ease of the Zero Labor Home, where they can enjoy a life free from mundane household chores,” said Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. “We will continue to lead the AI home era with our Affectionate Intelligence solutions and state-of-the-art core technologies.”
