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Why Your Smart Home AI Can't Open the Door in an Emergency (And How to Fix It)

DEV Community·Rodrigo Giuliani·28 days ago
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A practical story about the missing protocol between AI and physical devices — and the open-source project building it. The scenario that started everything Imagine your grandmother lives with your family. One afternoon, no one is home. She falls in the bedroom and can't get up. Your home has a smart lock, a camera with AI fall detection, a connected phone hub, and an alarm system. All of them are online. All of them are certified Matter devices. And none of them can coordinate a response — because no standard exists that lets an AI say "ensure her safety" and have every device figure out its role automatically. The camera can detect the fall. But it can't tell the lock to open. The lock can open, but it doesn't know there's an emergency. The phone hub can call 911, but it doesn't know when to. Each device speaks its own command language, and the AI speaks in goals. That gap — between AI intent and physical action — is what DoSync is built to close.…

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