There's a lot that a home IOT (Internet Of Things) networking system can offer those who use it. By "use it" I mean who employ all the systems and IOT devices that monitor and surveil the average home or apartment.

But I foresee the uses are for those who want to get a grip of their personal self-improvement goals such as being more healthy and more frugal.

Here's how and some examples use cases for both scenarios.

In the Healthy aspect, having IOT devices with motion sensors, cameras and proximity sensors can help monitor your steps throughout the day. This can be combined with a smartwatch in which keeps track of your steps once you've left the home.

Let's say your working a remote position and the motion detectors in every room keeps track of the duration you've been in the room and estimates your steps. The motion detector reads combined with a more efficient sensor such like a smart watch is like having your everywhere physical trainer next to you throughout the day.

Cameras can be trained to know when you're working from desk at a long-term and minus any calorie burned through your steps to give a warning of how you didn't take a five minute break from the office and takes some steps.

Cameras can especially be helpful when they're placed in areas where they're able to do pattern recognition and see when there's a bin or refrigerator cabinet becoming empty.

This can be achieved by employing the use of AI to help with this.

Imagine going to the frig and getting that late night slice of cold cut deli turkey and crackers and the camera sees the motions and captures the event.

This event has been added to your monitor system's hub database and AI then triggers a text message of unusual nocturnal consumption.

The text also includes a little tidbit about going to bed on too full of a stomach just as a caution.

Note: if you question if these devices are possible, just look at any modern-day manufacturing assembly line, where these types of devices are employed daily.

It's such an occurrence, there's machines called programable logic machines, which are monitoring the assembly belts daily.

In trucking, they're monitoring how boxes are being loaded and can be used to give an estimate by how the packed boxes are reaching the top and how deep they are from the back.

Using these calculations, it'll be able to estimate the fill time if compared the a moment in time.

But back to personal health benefits of IOT devices within a home.

I believe the IPHONE can now detect if an elderly person has fallen or if a person has been in a wreck.

These are the measurements of sudden impacts or sudden jolts in the phone's inside GPS or Gyroscope senses.

Also not to mention the ubiquitous smoke alarms and CO monitors that's mandatory in every home and apartment in the United States.

Ok, maybe not mandatory, but should be. They come ready-installed in Recreational Vehicles (RVs).

These two things are my guess however, but I do believe the phones have these capabilities.

Of course we know a thermostat can be used to see when the temperature is rising alarmingly high and can trigger warning if combined with your movements throughout a home.

This will be a case where two event points combined trigger a warning.

This type of system is smart enough that combining movement plus high temperatures warrants a warning.

Much like the late-night snack issues a warning in case you plan on going to bed. A smart watch will already know your habits of sleep in the first place.

I can go more on the benefits of IOT and personal health, but let's talk about the benefits of financial and budgeting with these devices monitoring your home.

Though there might not be as much as health, it could be useful in the inventory area of your home.

Much like that parent that sees you doubling back for seconds for another bowl of cereal, that's where the cameras come into play.

Camera's with the aid of an AI cloud service can see when levels of things are getting low and trigger a text for you to put getting some more bread on the next shopping list.

Of course the use of weight sensors at the bottom of a cabinet where you place of a milk carton can help in letting you know it becoming empty by its sheer weight differential from the past weight-capture event.

These two ways, health and financial, is just the tip iceberg.

• social behavior ? via monitoring movement at a social event.
• ceremonial events ? capturing facial recognition and expressions for the moment humor or sadness was told.
• probably already utilized in penal facilities to know the whereabouts of inmates.

These were just three off the cuff. ChatGpt could probably useful to reveal more ways.

Also there's multiple ways to use the data collected from the home/yard monitoring devices.

The first way will be capturing the information inside your home through a home server which has a database to store they information and a app that runs logic on it for triggering events.

Another way to capture the data is using a cloud service that will utilize an AI service to give reporting on known common habits culled together from previous learned information.

I could go further and maybe in the future, I'll revisit this topic. But for now, know sensors and monitoring will be a part of everyday existences with the advances of IOT devices. So be ready.