Smart home technology is becoming increasingly popular in the UK offering security, comfort and energy efficiency. So just what are the benefits of home automation?
Until recently home automation using integrated smart technology seemed like science fiction but with advances in AI technology and the rollout of high-speed broadband and smart phones it is becoming more and more popular offering convenience, safety, comfort and even adding to the value of our homes.
Smart home technology
A smart home allows homeowners the chance to control many aspects of their home, including the temperature, lights, blinds, security cameras and integrated appliances remotely via their smart phone, tablet or computer.
Smart technology allows you to record a TV show on a smart TV from a hundred miles away, it lets you see who has rung your door bell and is outside your home from your workplace, lets you set the washing machine to do that load of laundry whilst you are away, set your heating to come on at a certain time to suit you and water your garden whilst you are away on holiday.
Smart security and lighting
Many people choose home automation for the security it can afford your property whether you are home or away. Smart doorbells have become more and more popular as useful ways of making your home feel safer. Even if you are inside your home, when the doorbell rings you can use your phone to see who is there and choose whether to answer the door. You can even speak to someone at your door through this smart technology. This is particularly useful for vulnerable people.
Smart security systems can also incorporate many other devices including motion detectors and wireless cameras and smoke detectors. Smart lighting systems are also an effective security feature but also so much more as they interact with their environment and the people in them.
Smart Comfort
Over recent years smart thermostats have revolutionised home heating and cooling, saving customers valuable pounds and improving comfort. There are numerous options with some smart thermostats being smarter than others. A basic system simply controls the heating or cooling in a home remotely whilst top of the range models offer many more options including security, smart speaker, air quality and energy use monitor.
Smart Entertainment
An integrated smart home entertainment system really can expand your leisure experience. By linking numerous devices such as TVs and smart speakers you can create multi room entertainment that moves with you as you move around your home. You don’t have to stop enjoying a song playing in the kitchen if you go into the lounge, and you don’t have to turn the sound up in the kitchen so you can hear it in the lounge, the song can follow you from a device in the kitchen to the lounge! Likewise with a TV show you are watching in one room whilst wanting to move to another! The possibilities of smart leisure are endless
Whether it is comfort, security or fun, home automation really can make your life better.