Roomba is
nothing but a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners for homes, which is sold
by iRobot Corporation. iRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology
company, who is selling many kinds of robots for homes and industries. The company
of Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner is interested to sell the data’s they
collected from the houses to big giants of tech companies like Google, Apple
and Amazon.
The iRobot
Corporation feels that the increases of network devices and smart homes, it is
must sell the map of homes to tech giants which will help the company to make a
high end and Wi-Fi featured Roomba robot models.
iRobot corporation
chief executive officer Colin Angle said Reuters that, “his company iRobot could
reach a good deal to sell the mapping data to big tech companies in the next two
years”.
Actually,
all the companies in the market are very much interested to get the mapping data’s
of people’s homes. With the mapping data companies like Apple, Amazon, and
Google can improve the functions and performance efficiency of different types
of smart home products.
For
example, a smart stereo system or a smart stereo speaker can alter the sounds the
room dimension and spaces, a smart lighting system can alter the lights for the
view of windows and sunlight’s and the online companies like Amazon, E-bay
could use the mapping data’s to recommend customers to buy exact home products
to their homes.
But some
customers are worried about the privacy and safety concern about selling the data’s
to the tech companies and they are not satisfied with it.
