My company is looking into building a product in the field of home automatisation.

What we have so far is a small thing you can put in your living room. You can control your heat source (probably in the cellar).
You can do so with an app if you want.
It has wether forecast so it can use more solar (if you have that and the sun is going to shine) and so on.
Since our system is very modular we can create more physical modules and integrate them into the system

My question to you is:

What would you like to have?
What should an ideal product be able to do?
What would be practically awesome?

a computer integrated into actual household which you can program 4 recognizable voices in it for control purposes. so all you have to do is say what you want and the house complies. like "lights on" "open curtains" "preheat oven" "adjust temperature controls to 22 celsius" simple shit like that. but in the end im sure this technology will lead to people being more lazy and fat.

general web and AI capabilities, like a home integrated version of the Amazon Echo

basically Smart House irl

is this your homework?

i want home automation to do everything and i mean everything i "manually" have to do. some examples: sensors to turn on light when i walk in a room and turn off when i leave, voice control for temperature, tv, radio, doorbell able to tell me who's there and automatically shift nearest tv screen on with film who's outside and by voice control open the door on the door.

spy on children without their knowing.

We are more looking into affordable irl functioning features
Tho i like the voice temperature thing and the light on if u are in a room feature. However that would need providing interfaces for light manufacturers which are (to what I'm aware) not standardized yet.

This is not my homework. We work together with a company who can produce a small version of this.

If I were you I would look into automated systems that can help save energy and waste around the home.

Sink / shower / hoses etc get turned off automatically after a period of time if no one is around.

Lights, fans etc turn off automatically if no one is in the home / in said room.

Doors get locked remotely if needed, if no one is home, send text message to the owner saying no one is home and door is unlocked with option to lock it remotely.

Maybe an automated way to keep track of groceries and how low your food supply is, and automatically order more after a certain trash hold, using a food delivery system like PeadPod for example.

I think the water / electrical shut off could work with movement sensors around the house. If the sensor does not compute any movement after a certain amount of time, automatically shut off, or notify owner via cellphone and ask to shut off or not.

Water shut off with a shorter time sensor and lights can have a longer period of time without sensing movement before doing it.

interface to light manufacturers? wtf is this shit?

since it seems you have some major reading in front of you try reading up on arduino and rasperry pi. should give u an insight into how you could do this and then u can swap those out for more professional micro-controllers etc at a later stage.

A lot of things mentioned already exist... Motion/ infrared sensors, home automation with most your electrical (receptacles, switches, motor controlled blinds, etc). These can also be controlled via app on tablets. Anyone really interested could start with Lutron and Leviton home automation.