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Until recently, it seemed that many of the inventions that we could notice in science-fiction movies could only remain in the sphere of the human imagination. Nevertheless, such inventions still evoked admiration and interest among viewers in front of the cinema screen. Engineers, designers and inventors decided to meet these expectations. One of the most popular examples is home automation devices with intelligent features such as preset lighting, automatic air conditioning, and advanced security systems. This article describes some of the most common smart home automation applications and the benefits given by using such installations.
Smart features for your home – getting started
The market offer of smart home equipment includes a very wide range of technical solutions that enable the implementation of numerous processes in an automated manner. One of the basic elements of smart home equipment is a voice assistant (the most popular are Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa). The voice assistant enables non-contact control of the functional elements of the house by voice commands (eg “SET THE TEMPERATURE TO 22°C”) and receiving feedback message from the speaker (eg “THE TEMPERATURE WILL BE SET TO 22°C”). If you care about attractive visual qualities, you can get them very easily by connecting smart light bulbs (such as Xiaomi Mi LED Smart Bulb), in which you can set parameters such as light intensity, RGB color saturation, as well as lighting pattern (e.g. flickering or periodic brightening / dimming). Information about the weather conditions outside the window is very often useful. Here, the weather stations fulfill their role perfectly, in addition to information about temperature, humidity, wind speed and rainfall intensity, they are also equipped with a weather forecast function based on measured changes in atmospheric pressure (eg Green Blue GB523).
Accessories that increase the living comfort
In addition to hardware that is built into the building facade of your home, household appliances that have been standard equipment for many years, but are equipped with additional functions, are also helpful. Such devices include, among others battery-powered self-propelled vacuum cleaners that clean the floor according to a pre-programmed site map. For video games, movies and music lovers, the advanced Smart TV system with a media streaming hub will certainly meet their expectations. The multimedia application can be controlled via smartphone and/or earlier mentioned – voice assistant.
Safety first!
Smart home technology is not only hardware add-ons that increase the comfort of living at home. Still, the most important thing is to ensure safety inside the house building and in its closest neighborhood. In addition to the doorbell and intercom, it is worth equipping the house with a CCTV system and a burglar alarm. Potential burglars will also be discouraged by the presence simulation system – e.g. by using smart 230V outlets with Wi-Fi control. In order to prevent accidents, in addition to installing the necessary security measures in the electrical system, it is a very good idea to connect fire, smoke and hazardous gas detectors, a sprinkler system and a fire alarm, which sends a notification to the emergency services when a threat is detected. In this way, you can perfectly protect your home, yourself, your family and material wealth against losses.
Economic efficiency
In addition to additional devices to increase the standard of the apartment, the advantages of equipping a home with a smart home technology are significantly lowering the maintenance costs and increasing the efficiency of systems such as heating and air conditioning – to precisely control the temperature in real time, the smart thermostat is the way to go. You can lower electricity bills also by adding a programmable controller to the lighting system, which turns the lighting on and off according to the time schedule set on the user level. Lighting and other permanently built-in devices can also be controlled by motion and gesture sensors. You can buy the necessary accessories and elements to build a smart home installation in the wide offer of the Botland Store.
