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.

There are indoor areas where the quality of air is a very sensitive condition. An example is around children or near the kitchen to protect surrounding installations from being consumed by fire. Nest protection devices read the quality of air around the home and raise an alarm depending on settings. They can detect excess carbon monoxide and other gases that emanate from combustion. The alarm might even go off when your onions burn.

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 streaming cameras are on mobile devices already. But they have been taken a notch higher by enabling you to stream proceedings from a remote location. When installed at your door, you will see the visitor knocking, talk to him or her over loud speaker and take necessary actions like opening the door or raising an alarm. This is the best option when you have kids who have to be monitored.

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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