What does it mean to live in the age of smart homes? What are the consequences in our daily lives and what are the possibilities offered?

As in the best science fiction movies of a few decades ago, in the near future it will be (perhaps) normal to ask for love advice in the bedroom mirror, complain to the oven because the roast is too cooked or ask the vocal assistant what he thinks about Spike Lee's latest movie.

While cinema and literature help us to imagine future scenarios, technological innovation goes so fast as to shorten times and actually change our behaviour at home. Overcoming the limits of ergonomics, new products on the market enter into dialogue (sometimes almost intimate) with our habits, behaviors and needs of the body. 

This is the case of the new Ecosystem line presented by VitrA at the ISH trade fair in Frankfurt, the event dedicated to the world of bathrooms, energy-saving technologies, air conditioning, renewable energy and building automation. 

Among the proposals by the company founded in 1942 in Istanbul we find, for example, V-Care Smart Panel, an elegant glass panel for the concealed cistern, able to regulate water consumption, control the level of hygiene of the toilet and adapt to customary use.

V-Care Smart Mirror is an interactive mirror that can change the lighting and mood of the bathroom, providing the main daily information and recharging smartphones and electronic devices, acting like a real personal assistant.

Through an intuitive application you can control the two devices – like the other products in the collection – from your smartphone. Communication with your home at a complex level is thus part of our routine, with simple and recurring gestures.