AI-equipped Door

A japanese company, YKK AP has developed and produced a prototype of AI-equipped door. It has a big screen on it's entire surface which projects images and recognizes human faces. It has no key hole, nor doorknob. Depend on the data of family mebmers registered in advance, it recognizes their faces. If some of them came back home, it will be automatically opened.

For example, if the farther would come colse to the door, it asks a question suck like, "What time will you come back home?" Then considering the time the father might come back, the door will give some useful informations. Suppose, the father answered "Maybe I will come back at 8 o'clock in the evening", then the door would advice him, "It starts rain in this afternoon, although it might stop until evening, in case the rain does not stop, it is better that you bring an umbrella." The door provides you informations which might be needed at that moment, such as traffic information, weather report and so on. It is just equate with hireing your own butler.

The door can even transmit a message from a family member to another member. If a child leaves a massage "I would have more pocket money", the door records it and transmits to the child's mother, when she goes through there.

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