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Several new technologies for smart home automation have gained popularity in recent years. Here’s a breakdown of options to make your home smarter, and 4 compelling reasons to dive into smarter living.
Voice Control
Voice control has grown in popularity for performing functions around the home, like smart home appliances or entertainment systems. Popular home automation voice assistants include Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Josh.ai. You can activate lights, change the temperature, activate music, and more –simply using your voice.
Artificial Intelligence
Similar to voice control, modern smart homes make use of AI to learn your habits and preferences. In turn, AI can use that knowledge to make the appropriate adjustments. For example, to save energy, a smart thermostat might figure out when you usually leave for work and change the temperature accordingly. While voice control can do the task upon command, AI learns what task needs to be taken, resulting in less work for you.
Mesh Networks
Additionally, conventional Wi-Fi networks may have trouble distributing reliable signals throughout a big house. Mesh networks make it simpler to handle your smart home devices by using several access points. It builds a seamless network that can reach every room, and device, in your house.
Smart Locks
With smart locks, you can use a smart phone app to remotely manage your door locks. What's more, you can also organize events, grant access to others, and get alerts when people come and go. Conversely, if you're someone who has a tendency to lose keys, a smart lock keypad will be your saving grace.
Smart Sensors
Finally, smart sensors can detect changes in temperature, humidity, light, and more. They can then initiate appropriate actions. For example, a smart sensor may recognize a drop in temperature and activate a heater for comfort or identify a water leak and cut off the water supply to prevent costly home damage.
Home automation can make life easier in several ways. Here are some examples:
Convenience
Ultimately, with home automation you may use a single device, such a smartphone or voice assistant, to control several appliances and systems in your house. This implies that you can lock your doors, change the temperature in your house, turn on the lights, operate your home entertainment system, and more without having to physically contact with these gadgets. You can save time and live a more convenient life as a result.
Energy Efficiency
By enabling you to monitor and manage the energy usage of different devices and appliances in your home, home automation systems can also help you save money on energy bills. For instance, you may program your lights to turn off when you leave a room or set your thermostat to regulate itself based on your schedule.
Security
Home automation can increase your home's security by enabling you to keep an eye on it using a smartphone or other device from anywhere. Also, you can set up alerts to inform you whenever something out of the ordinary occurs, including when a door is opened or when motion is detected in a certain area of your home.
Accessibility
By enabling people with impairments or mobility challenges to operate various home appliances using voice commands or remote controls, home automation can make day-to-day life easier. Generally speaking, it’s important for this population segment to be able to live comfortably and independently in their own homes.
Overall, home automation gives you advantages that make life simpler and allows you to have more control over your home, schedule, and budget. Contact us at Virtua Home Technologies to set up a free in-home consultation to get the conversation started on a custom smart home installation, personalized to your taste and budget, designed to let you live smarter, not harder.