Imagine a scenario in which you’re heading home after a long week of travelling. It’s getting late and you need to stop and buy groceries now before the shop closes but you don’t remember what’s in the fridge. You don’t have any clothes for work tomorrow as everything is sitting in the washing machine. To top it all off, you left for your trip in a hurry so the house is a mess.

If you’ve got your LG smartphone to hand you needn’t worry. You stop to buy some ingredients to make a sandwich with the mozzarella you left in the fridge. By the time you get home, you walk in to find the floor being vacuumed and your clothes happily spinning in the washing machine.

It’s not science fiction or some future technology. It’s already here with LG’s pioneering Smart Home technology. Convergence in the home is set to change our entire lives as appliances become smarter and more connected than ever before.

“Technological convergence is a phenomenon happening right now because more and more electronic devices can communicate with each other. Internet-connected consumer devices allow for an eco-system in which you can manage all of the electronics in your home from a single device” says Thomas van der Linde GM Marketing LG Electronics.

The possibilities presented by convergence are endless. You could, for example, use your smartphone to see what’s inside your fridge or start up an appliance without needing to be at home. LG Smart ThinQ appliances offer unparalleled convenience, connectivity and performance by removing proximity from the equation – if you’re online you’re connected to your devices and appliances.

Take LG’s range of smart refrigerators. Using the Smart Manager system, users can view current food items in the fridge, check for freshness, and even get meal recommendations based on available ingredients. What’s more, Smart Shopping allows for online grocery shopping directly from the fridge door’s LCD panel.

Remember that meal recommendation the refrigerator just gave you? That recipe can then be shared with LG’s Smart Oven to automatically begin pre-heating to the right temperature. Aspiring chefs can monitor the status of their ovens, search for recipes and programme their ovens beforehand.

Nowadays, we don’t just think about televisions as places to watch TV. We see them as home entertainment centres, where we can access music, movies, photos, games and photos. This is a glimpse of what convergence will mean – “a household in which appliances aren’t separate devices with disparate functions, but all part of one single system that can be controlled at the touch of a button” concludes van der Linde

The basis for this lies in two powerful management technologies – SmartShare and SmartControl. SmartShare allows for instantaneous transfer of information between devices: no more having to manually move media between laptop and TV, or cellphone and speakers. SmartShare allows you to instantly share the movie you’re watching on your smartphone to your LG Smart TV.

SmartControl is what lets you use these sharing capabilities to their full benefit. You can remotely monitor and control any connected appliance in your house wherever you are, as long as you have the SmartControl application on your smartphone.

This is only the beginning. LG’s commitment to convergence means the company is constantly pushing beyond the boundaries of current smart technologies to bring even more advanced smart appliances to consumers. The LG Smart Home is set to become even smarter, faster, and make running a household easier than ever before. You could already be living in the home of the future today, thanks to LG.