Apple announced on Monday a new initiative called HomeKit with promises to revolutionize the home and make it significantly smarter.
The platform was introduced during a keynote presentation at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center in San Francisco, where the company detailed new features coming to the next-generation software for the iPhone and iPad.
The platform will allow users to users to control locks, lights, cameras, doors, thermostats, plugs and switches at the home via one iOS 8 app, without the need for multiple apps to control each device or function.
Apple aims to get home automation devices to work together on one centralized platform. The move has the potential to ignite the smart home industry, as well as the so-called Internet of Things world.
Although iOS 8 doesn't come out until the fall, the beta test (available now) will encourage developers to create software and products that will work with HomeKit.
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