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LG appliances offer innovative, practical ways to integrate AI technology into your everyday life.
Artificial intelligence has arrived in our homes and it’s changing our relationships with our refrigerators, washing machines, and other appliances. These machines no longer sit idly by waiting for us to tell them what to do. By tracking patterns in how we use them, AI-equipped appliances are proactive, adjusting how they operate to better work with our household. With its innovative technologies, LG Electronics is leading the charge in AI appliances.
The company defines AI as Affectionate Intelligence, to better understand homeowners’ needs, producing washing machines that automatically set wash cycles by analyzing the fabric types we load into them, refrigerators that can keep food fresh by predicting when we’ll open the fridge door, and air conditioners that can optimize how they cool based on where we’re standing in the room.
LG’s AI Core-Tech Advancements
LG’s AI advancements are a marriage between its Affectionate Intelligence technology that can track user behavior and the innovations that allow its appliances to change the way they operate based on that behavior.
Smarter Clothes Washing
If you’ve ever stood in front of your washing machine trying to figure out what settings work with the clothes you’re loading into it, then LG’s AI washing machines have an answer. These smart washers can analyze the fabric texture and weight of a load of laundry, then adapt its motion to optimize how it cleans them. And since it uses a direct drive technology, it has a lot of options for how it washes your clothes.
Most washing machines use a system of pulleys and belts to connect the motor to the drum. LG’s direct drive motor connects directly to the drum. Along with making the washer more durable, energy efficient, and quieter, this design allows the washing machine to do more than just agitate your clothes at different speeds. LG’s AI washing machines have scrubbing, rolling, stepping, swing, tumble, and filtration motions.
Intelligent Refrigeration
LG’s line of Affectionate Intelligence refrigerators can help save you money while keeping your food fresher by tracking how you use it. Say your fridge door sees a lot of action around 7 a.m. on weekdays when the house is getting ready for the day. An LG AI refrigerator will identify that pattern, then lower the temperature just before the morning rush to ensure the fridge’s internal temp stays cool enough to keep food fresh during that high-traffic period. It’s able to do this because of its inverter linear compressor.
Most refrigerators have compressors that cycle on and off to produce cold air and maintain the fridge’s internal temperature. LG’s AI-equipped refrigerators use smart inverter and linear compressors that change speed to suit the fridge’s cooling demands. This design is more efficient, allowing the fridge to make precise adjustments to internal temperature.
AI-Equipped Climate Control
LG’s line of AI-equipped dual inverter air conditioners take cooling your home to the next level. These air conditioners are equipped with smart sensors that can monitor humidity and temperature, outdoor weather conditions, and even room occupancy, to adjust the speed of the compressor to maintain an even temperature level.
They can even alter the direction of airflow, so it’s not blowing directly on someone in the room. They’re able to do this with their dual inverter technology. Most window and portable air conditioning units cycle on and off to maintain the temperature in the room. LG’s dual inverter design allows the air conditioner to change speeds to alter temperature, allowing them to maintain more consistent temperatures.
The LG ThinQ® Smart Home Platform
The LG ThinQ® app gives you greater control over appliances in the home. With LG ThinQ®, you can access remote control features that enable you to change temperature settings on your refrigerator, remote start your washing machine, or preheat your oven via a smartphone or via digital assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa.
By connecting a compatible Smart Home Hub and necessary accessories, LG ThinQ® can turn off lights and televisions after you’ve left the room or cue a robot vacuum to start cleaning when it senses no one is home. LG ThinQ® can also implement Smart Routines that help save energy by turning on window air conditioners when indoor temperature reaches a certain point and turning them off when it gets cool.
With LG ThinQ®, your appliances can even work together to improve performance. An LG washer can communicate with an LG dryer, for instance, sharing its settings for a load of laundry so the dryer can automatically set itself to suit that load.
LG ThinQ® can also help with maintenance. Smart dryers can sense clogs in a dryer duct and send you an alert on your smartphone. LG AI air conditioning units will self-clean, so you don’t have to remember to do so. And with ThinQ Up, you can add new features and functions for your appliances simply by downloading them through the app.
10 Innovative Ways LG’s AI Appliances and LG ThinQ® Can Improve Your Life at Home
From maintenance alerts that keep your LG dryer running smoothly to ovens that can automatically set temperatures and cook times by scanning a bar code, LG’s Affectionate Intelligence is making the flow of your household easier. Here are some of the ways “Life’s Good” with LG AI:
- Remote control appliance monitoring. Never leave another load of laundry in the washing machine with appliance notifications.
- Maintenance alerts. No more surprise breakdowns. Smart LG appliances let you know about maintenance issues before problems arise.
- New features. With ThinQ UP, wirelessly download new features for your appliances that you’ll actually use without having to replace them.
- Efficient appliances. Lower your electric bill with air conditioners, fridges, and other appliances that can operate more efficiently by tracking how you use them.
- Integrated control. Tell your appliances what to do through voice commands on Alexa, Google Home and other smart home systems that work with LG appliances.
- Remove the laundry guesswork. With washers and dryers that can automate settings by analyzing fabric type and load size, you won’t mind letting your kids do a load or two.
- Scan and cook. Make midweek meal cooking easier with LG’s scan and cook feature. Simply scan a barcode and let a compatible LG range, oven, or microwave set temps and cooking times for you.
- Optimize entertainment. No more fiddling with TV display settings. LG smart electronics uses AI to optimize picture, brightness, and sound based on the content and room environment to maximize your viewing experience.
- Energy savings. No more arguing over who changed the temperature or left the lights on! With a compatible Smart Home Hub, LG ThinQ® can automatically control a wide range of smart thermostats, light bulbs, switches, and plugs from various brands.