iOS 8 HomeKit – SmartGadget for SmartHome

Together with first iOS 8 information, Tim Crook hinted at the idea of HomeKit, which is said to release sometime at the beginning of 2015. HomeKit will offer its users the opportunity to a more efficient and productive relationship between them and their household items and electronics. The HomeKit will bring forward freedom for gadget developers to building items which will connect with both iPhone and iPad in order to help customers operate their home appliances, security, heating and more.

Although the initial release date for the iOS 8 HomeKit was settled for September 2014, no certain updates have been officially announced on the matter. A misfortune or not, several vendors have already displayed their HomeKit-based products at CES and it seems that hard work for the integration of the Apple Kit is ongoing. Infers were made that one plausible argument for HomeKit’s delay is a marketing strategy dictating that it should be reveled simultaneously with the Apple Watch.

For a better understating of the HomeKit, one must be presented the general concept of ‘’kit’’ in the Apple universe. The common ground which all ‘’kit’’ targeted innovations share is that of developers and their tight relationship with their customers’ needs. SpriteKit and HealthKit are two examples of such kind, with the first including games developers and the latter resorting to the fitness technology. Whereas those two seem to have been designed for a specialized public, the HomeKit is fit for the majority of the customers and with it, tedious chores such as baby proofing will be made a way easier task.

The software framework defined as HomeKit is not difficult to handle, as it offers the developers the chance to relate wireless devices with iOS apps with the aid of incorporated sets of systems. Thus, developers will have to join Apple’s Made for iPhone program and further on create products bearing the Apple’s MFi logo. In this manner, devices created to interrelate with the Apple HomeKit will be easily spotted and ready for home use.