31 October 2017

How To Make Your Home Smart

By Rebecca Walker


Technology is attempting to connect and run everything via the internet and remotely. This is aimed at getting homes to be more comfortable and eliminate the needs to control everything manually. Tech specialists have given their idea of how to make your home smart while keeping your expenses at bear minimum. Here are gadgets and devices that will make this dream a reality for you.

A WIFI thermostat is considered the face of smartening any room. The devices are perfect for synchronizing the conditions in your room including temperature and even learning your schedules. The idea is to ensure that whenever you step into the house, you will have the perfect condition other than having to switch on the AC and other gadget. The thermostat is controlled using a phone app.

Lighting is used to adjust the mood of a room. What it you can do the adjustment through your phone? The family of hue bulbs offers this opportunity. The room will take your desire color as well as be bright or dark by being controlled from your phone. This also allows you to save energy and thus reduce your utility expenditure.

The quality of air indoors is very important especially where sensitive people or tasks are carried out. For instance, the presence of carbon monoxide is fatal. Other gases may affect people with breathing related problems. There are state-of-the-art gadgets where you set the gas levels to be detected. Once these levels are exceeded, an alarm will go off. These gadgets are so sensitive that they can detect smoke from a burning toast.

Bluetooth speakers have been in use for a while. However, you still have to control them by dialing and can only play the music that is in your phone. What if you could search by voice from the internet and create your desired list? This is the capability provided by the new generation of internet enabled speakers. By programming your voice within the speaker, you only need to mention a song, it is searched on the internet and plays immediately.

Net cameras are on the rise. They integrate security and allow you to be at home as well as activate the alarm from remote locations. It allows you to stream from any location through the internet and view different sections of your house. If someone knocks on the door, you can talk to him or her through the loud speaker. This is the definition of being home even when you are away.

Reduction in energy consumption is one of the targets of smart technology. An automatic plug allows you to program and shut appliances at different intervals based on the activity at hand. As long as it is connected to power through the plug, it can shut down after hours based on its energy consumption.

There are many other options to keep a home smart depending on personal preferences. They range from locking doors to cleaning the floor or carpet in your absence. The decision to incorporate any technology will depend on the areas you wish to focus on. There are budgetary implications for all the decisions you make.




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