The products interact through the "Panasonic Smart App" which serves as a main control panel for the wired portion of appliances in its lineup. The app also provides ready access to instruction manuals and support help.

Most of its products use NFC (near field communication) technology to interact with phones, the same "touch card" tech used in many train passes and e-payment systems. The technology is common in Japanese phones, but is still catching on outside of the country.

Panasonic is also showing an air conditioner that can be fitted with a Wi-Fi attachment, then accessed remotely from a smartphone. Currently the only features available are checking the air conditioner's settings and turning it off, but this could be useful in the future, for uses like cooling your home on the way home from work during the summer.

Ceatec runs this week in Chiba, Japan.