HUF HAUS with Watson The family-owned company HUF HAUS and IBM today presented the world's first house that learns from its occupants, opening a smart bungalow in the model house park of HUF HAUS in Hartenfels. The intelligent HUF House “Ausblick” ("Outlook") understands and gets to know its residents through their interactions, which are analyzed by IBM’s Watson IoT platform and are recognized and stored as behavioural patterns.

The house in timbered architecture is available for visitors to the exhibition centre in the Westerwald as a show house and is also used as an office building. The residents test the learning abilities of the house in live operation. Thanks to networked sensors, thousands of data is collected in the IBM Cloud, analyzed by the Watson IoT platform and transformed into insights about residents’ behavioural patterns. This dynamic approach is in contrast to the standard smart home programming available on the market, which executes pure chain-of-command requests and represents a static set of rules.

HUF HAUS uses Watson Assistant, IBM’s digital assistant for businesses to build enterprise AI assistant solutions that securely bring together data on all of the places and "things" consumers visit and interact with daily, within the bungalow. With Watson Assistant, home and human beings interact together in a natural way.

Technology Milestone The innovative family business HUF HAUS from the Westerwald attracts attention with its two ground-breaking milestones: Not only the special abilities of the house are unique on the whole market, the construction of the glasshouse is also revolutionary and patented. A mechanical connector transforms glass into structural glazed element without the use of chemical adhesives.