Create your ultimate smart home

Create your ultimate smart home

Smart home automation presents you with the opportunity of tapping into high-tech functionality and luxury that wasn’t possible traditionally.

Devices in the home are now getting increasingly connected to a cloud service, with access to controls and content from anywhere. These connected devices become smart when they are able to analyze and act upon consumer data for interpreting consumer behavior and enhancing comfort, convenience, and safety. Smart home technology generally refers to any suite of IoT-enabled devices, appliances, or systems that connect into a common network and can be independently controlled.

The convenience factor that smart home technology provides is enormous. Being able to keep all of the technology in your home connected with IoT is a massive step forward for technology and home management. Also, smart home systems tend to be wonderfully flexible when it comes to accommodating new devices, appliances, and other technology.

As smart home technology aims at providing customers with connected products that are loaded with possibilities to make a person’s life easier, more convenient, and more comfortable, we have listed down few smart home applications that can make your house the ultimate smart home.

Smart Locks

Smart locks connect to the home network and facilitate homeowners to grant access remotely, view images from the door lock’s point of view, and even schedule access for various users and various times.

Smart Lights

Smart lights offer energy efficiency and come with high efficiency fixtures and automated controls to make adjustments based on conditions such as daylight availability or occupancy.

Smart Bulbs

Smart bulbs can be wirelessly connected to phone apps or a home automation hub that you can control from anywhere. With smart bulbs you can not only dim them using the corresponding app on your mobile, but you can also change their colors, listen to music on their in-built speakers, and even help you sleep better.

Home security

The homes security system connects to your home Wi-Fi network, helping you monitor and control your security devices using an app on your smartphone. It helps build a comprehensive system that includes sensors and detectors installed in different parts of your home.

Smart doorbells

A smart doorbell notifies the owner of the house, via her smartphone, whenever a guest arrives at the doorstep. The built-in sensors of the smart bell get activated when a guest approaches, and the bell rings.

Temperature controls

Smart temperature control devices are programmed to increase comfort and save energy in homes. They detect factors like number of occupants, time of the day, and outside weather to adjust the temperature conditions inside the home accordingly.

Smoke detectors

A smart smoke detector alerts you anywhere your mobile has an Internet connection. Its biggest advantage comes with the fact that it warns you against a potential danger even when you’re not home.

Smart shades

Smart shades can be conveniently opened and closed using a remote, button, or an app on your phone. They minimize the amount of energy your HVAC system uses and know when to open or close, sensing the temperature within and outside the house.

Baby monitors

Baby monitors help parents or guardians attend to their kids whenever they need them. A baby monitor transmits any sound made by the baby to its attendant. It also allows two-way communication between the guardians and the child.Smart sprinklers

Smart sprinklers take care of your gardens and lawns, while reducing water consumption. They can also draw data from sensors to determine the watering needs of your plants.

Smart garage

Smart garage offer you both convenience and security. You can open and close your garage doors using a simple app on your phone or a button or remote. While at the same time, with a smart garage you can ensure you have an eye on activity taking place in your garage or if you’ve left its door unlocked.

Smart environment (Multiple uses)

There players, both and small, that offering a whole range of products that cover almost every corner of your smart home, making it truly smart. The Amazon Echo, Mother Sen.se or Philips Hue are few of the many products that can will add the smartness of your home.

While some smart home technologies are only in early development, the future is already here. Some elements of smart home equipment may require significant investment with long-term rewards. Others are simple and affordable. Thus, making small changes to your home's functionality can help you in enjoying the advantages of these smart devices and can result in potential savings.

Kate Shepherd

Deputy Principal at Foxwell State Secondary College

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Subhajit Maity

Aircraft MaintenanceTechnician at AIESL Business Owner at Nectar Cart

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where to learn these iot??

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Rick Buijserd

Senior Partner Development Manager EMEA - Leading Go-To-Market Strategy for AWS with Salesforce in EMEA

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Hi Naveen, great article and I absolutely agree. I already implemented some of the elements you mentioned. However I have to say that I am most happy with my "director of the Smart Home" which is in my case the Google Home. With this device I am able to control every aspect of the smart home.

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