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Bringing artificial intelligence into everyday life

Smart living is about bringing artificial intelligence closer to everyday life – from homes and health devices to smartphones and wearables. By combining sensors, microcontrollers, power solutions, connectivity, security and edge AI, Infineon enables devices that can sense, understand and respond to the world around them. The result: experiences that are more intuitive, healthier, safer and more sustainable.

Smart living
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Oct 28, 2026

A new era of smart living

Imagine waking up in a home that automatically adapts to your habits. Your wearable has already analyzed your sleep quality and provides personalized recommendations for the day ahead. Your smartphone understands your context and proactively assists you while keeping sensitive data private. This is no longer science fiction. It's technology that works so well, it simply disappears into everyday life. 

Intelligence is increasingly moving into the devices we use every day. Rather than simply collecting data and sending it to the cloud, devices are becoming capable of edge AI: processing information locally, making decisions in real time and acting autonomously. The next generation of smart living is not defined by connectivity alone. It is defined by artificial intelligence – happening right where it's needed.

And there are already countless use cases today in which artificial intelligence, built into everyday objects, enriches and simplifies our lives. Smart glasses that translate Chinese instruction manuals for us, smart watches that recommend a warm-up routine for today’s workout, smart speakers that walk us through a cake recipe step by step, and the smart home that recognizes when we arrive and automatically adjusts everything to our preferences. Watch the video for another exciting example of how this works.

Some interesting facts about smart living devices

39 billion

connected IoT devices are expected worldwide by 2030, rising to more than 50 billion by 2035. Every one of them generates data and creates opportunities for intelligent, connected experiences. 

Source: https://iot-analytics.com/number-connected-iot-devices/

300 TWh

of electricity could be saved annually through AI-enabled buildings and energy management systems. That's roughly equivalent to the electricity consumption of Australia and New Zealand combined

Source: https://build-up.ec.europa.eu/en/resources-and-tools/publications/ai-transforms-energy-management-buildings

2.2 billion

people aged 65+ worldwide.

What challenges are smart living technologies helping to solve?

Connected devices are becoming part of everyday life, but connectivity alone isn't enough. As homes, health devices, personal electronics and intelligent machines generate more data than ever, the real challenge lies in turning that data into intelligence: systems that understand context, protect privacy, and make decisions in real time.

How can homes become more comfortable, secured and energy-efficient?

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Challenge
Modern homes are filled with smart devices: thermostats, security cameras, lighting systems, appliances. Yet many of these devices operate in isolation, each from a different manufacturer, each with its own app and logic. As a result, achieving comfort, security and energy efficiency often requires manual effort: adjusting settings, switching between apps and reacting to problems after they occur, rather than preventing them in the first place.

Solution
Smart homes are evolving from connected devices into intelligent environments, but competing standards, complex setup and data-security concerns remain barriers for consumers. Matter 1.5.1, a royalty-free standard from the Connectivity Standards Alliance, addresses these challenges. Supported by more than 600 companies, including Infineon, Matter is helping make smart homes easier to use, interoperable, secured and sustainable.

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How can manufacturers build smarter, more secured smart home devices faster?

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Challenge
Manufacturers face growing challenges as the demands on smart home appliances increase: The devices must offer more and more functions, become increasingly intelligent, and make decisions that benefit and support residents, all while operating almost invisibly and remaining protected from unauthorized external access.

Solution
Success no longer depends on individual chips, but on the seamless integration of sensors, computing power, connectivity, power management, security and software. Matter, the royalty-free standard supported by more than 600 companies, gives device makers a common foundation for interoperable products. Infineon is at the heart of intelligent living systems. We combine a deep understanding of smart home use cases with an optimized mix of hardware and software, a complementary portfolio of AI-specific products and solutions, and a broad network of expert partners. This enables our customers to bring their AI applications to market quickly and accelerate the adoption of AI in their products.

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How can technology help people live healthier and more independent lives?

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Challenge
In light of the aging population and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, health care systems are under growing pressure. Traditional health care often relies on regular checkups, leaving little room for prevention or early intervention. Many older adults also want to remain independent for as long as possible, but this often comes with limited access to ongoing medical care. At the same time, continuous health monitoring requires the collection of highly personal data such as heart rate, sleep patterns and activity levels. This raises legitimate concerns about data privacy when the information is transmitted to the cloud.

Solution
Healthcare is becoming more personal, preventive and data-driven. Smart health devices can turn continuous health data into meaningful insights. Wearables monitor vital signs, activity, sleep or breathing patterns, helping people better understand their well-being, make informed decisions and identify potential issues earlier. Intelligent home healthcare solutions can also support greater independence and stronger engagement in personal care. By processing sensitive data directly on the device, edge AI enables fast responses while helping protect patient privacy.

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How can manufacturers develop trusted, intelligent and energy-efficient health devices?

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Challenge
Smart health devices can be important in providing care to the population, but they also demonstrate the complexity that manufacturers must take into account when designing their products. Continuous health monitoring requires the collection of highly personal data such as heart rate, sleep patterns and activity levels, which raises legitimate concerns about data privacy when this information is transmitted to the cloud. Manufacturers therefore need accurate sensing, secured data processing, reliable connectivity, long battery life and powerful functionality in compact designs.

Solution
For health device manufacturers, delivering these benefits takes more than individual components. Infineon combines sensors, microcontrollers, actuators, connectivity, security solutions and software with edge AI capabilities. By processing sensitive data directly on the device, edge AI enables fast responses while helping protect patient privacy. This broad portfolio helps manufacturers overcome key design challenges and develop trusted, energy-efficient and intelligent health devices that respond in real time.

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How can manufacturers address the growing complexity in the production of devices for smart living?

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Challenge
Instant responsiveness, contextual understanding, high security, and long battery life – all while becoming smaller and more portable. These requirements for smart living devices often conflict with one another. The faster, smarter, and more personalized a device becomes, the more computing power and data protection are required, which often drives up both size and cost. At the same time, the complexity for manufacturers of smart living devices is increasing.

Solution
Smart living devices are transforming everyday life, with consumers expecting intuitive, responsive, energy-efficient and secured experiences. Infineon provides the essential building blocks behind these devices. From sensors that “see” and “hear” to microcontrollers enabling edge AI, Infineon’s microelectronics expertise helps designers create smart products that can sense, process and respond intelligently.

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How can we make the most of artificial intelligence in smart living devices?

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Challenge
AI is transforming smart homes, wearables, smartphones and health devices at unprecedented speed and scale. For manufacturers, keeping pace means mastering an increasingly complex combination of hardware and software. Intelligent products need to sense their environment, understand data, make decisions and act—all while meeting demanding requirements for performance, energy efficiency, connectivity, security and privacy. Developing the necessary AI expertise, models and system knowledge across every layer can be a major challenge.

Solution
Infineon helps manufacturers turn AI potential into intelligent products. We combine sensors, microcontrollers, power, connectivity and security solutions with a deep understanding of AI use cases and an optimized mix of hardware and software. Our complementary AI-ready products, end-to-end machine learning platforms and broad network of expert partners simplify development and help accelerate the journey from concept to market.

If you’re creating the next generation of intelligent products, let’s build it together.

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The future is already here

Smart living is just getting started. It’s about more than just connected devices. It’s about creating experiences that are intuitive rather than complex. Efficient rather than wasteful. Personalized rather than generic. Secured rather than vulnerable.

By bringing intelligence closer to everyday life, we’re transforming the way people live, work, and interact with technology – and in doing so, we’re helping to create a world that’s more comfortable, healthier, safer, and more sustainable.

We’re shaping what’s next: a future where technology not only connects our world but truly understands it.

That’s Smart Living. That’s how we improve everyday life. 

FAQ

What is smart living?

Smart living is Infineon's approach to bringing intelligence into everyday devices, homes, health products and consumer electronics. By combining sensors, microcontrollers, connectivity, security and edge AI, Infineon enables devices that sense, understand and respond to their environment in real time.

What is the difference between smart living and IoT?

Traditional IoT connects devices and sends data to the cloud for processing. Smart living goes further by using edge AI to process data directly on the device, enabling faster, more private and more autonomous decision-making without constant cloud dependency.

What role do semiconductors play in edge AI and smart living?

Semiconductors, including sensors, microcontrollers, connectivity and security chips, are the foundation of edge AI and smart living. Infineon provides the semiconductor technologies that allow devices to sense their environment, process data locally and protect user privacy.

Why is on-device data processing important for privacy?

On-device data processing, enabled by edge AI, keeps sensitive information, such as health data or personal habits, on the device itself instead of sending it to the cloud. This reduces privacy risks and gives users greater control over their data.

Enjoy ultimate design flexibility

With one of the industry's broadest portfolios of sensors, microcontrollers, connectivity and security solutions, combined with deep application know-how in edge AI, we give you the flexibility to design intelligent devices exactly the way your application demands, from the sensor to the edge.

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