What's all that bickering? Visualising the Noisy Smart Home.

What about the invisible chatter around the home? Invisible? How can *sound* be invisible? In this case, ‘sound’ is actually noise, data noise. The endless communication streams of ones and zeros flying across our spaces, from the smart speaker sitting on the kitchen countertop, to the WIFI router on the floor in the living room. This ‘chatter’ is invisible – we cannot see it (if we don't look for it) but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Just because a human being isn’t moving their lips and sound isn’t coming out of their mouth doesn’t mean there isn’t anything going on. They are still communicating to themselves, they are processing information and making sense of it. In the same way that a smart speaker doesn’t show any visible signs of it being in use, it too is also still communicating with itself, others around the home, and its home servers which could be located on the other side of the world. In fact, these smart devices, also known as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, are producing constant communication, so your home is never actually ‘silent’, it’s got a mind of its own, and it’s only becoming more chaotic.