What do you need to create a smart home?
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2024 6:42 am
Did you know that there are gadgets and tools to make your home a smart home ? What's more, did you know that they can be installed easily and are not expensive ? And you can customize your home to make it a little more like a smart home without having to make major renovations. In this post we will tell you why smart homes are interesting and we will recommend some tools that we have found useful . One of them, the smart thermostat, which we installed with Servigas Confort . Do you want to discover the rest?
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An almost magical house
First of all, we remember the concept of a smart home. Imagine owner/partner/shareholder email lists that the front door opens by itself and the lights in your rooms turn on as you pass by. That you don't find the house cold after work because it started to heat up just before you arrived. That the fridge tells you when a product is finished. That you can raise the blinds, lower the heating a little and turn off the lights through your mobile phone .
All of these are examples of the use of technology in the home. Specifically, home automation and the Internet of Things. Thanks to technology, we can automate many processes in our home and, through the connection of devices to the Internet , we can control them remotely , either by voice or with a mobile phone . In fact, the latter allows us to control them even if we are not present .
Practical, right? In addition, voice assistants , such as Siri or Alexa, have helped make the concept of a smart home more of a reality, as has the confinement we have experienced with COVID-19. 5G is also going to play an important role.
Comfort, safety and savings
What do we gain from smart homes? It is clear that we gain in comfort . But also in energy efficiency and, consequently, in sustainability and in economic savings on electricity, gas and water. And that is…
Smart homes allow you to save up to 30% on energy bills.
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But that's not all: they also have a benefit in our security . Not only at the level of cameras and motion sensors , but also gas leak, flood and fire detectors .
Smart gadgets
Through the media, we have found different devices that you can easily purchase to make your home a little smarter. We are talking, for example, about smart plugs , which we can control by voice or by mobile phone and allow us to turn on or off the devices that we have connected to them and can even be programmed. One of their strong points is that the things you plug into them, even if they are not connected, can be used a bit as if they had artificial intelligence. On the other hand, what do you say about smart light bulbs ? Which you can also control by voice and by mobile phone and they let you choose the color and intensity of the light. In addition, they also inform you about your consumption.
Image
An almost magical house
First of all, we remember the concept of a smart home. Imagine owner/partner/shareholder email lists that the front door opens by itself and the lights in your rooms turn on as you pass by. That you don't find the house cold after work because it started to heat up just before you arrived. That the fridge tells you when a product is finished. That you can raise the blinds, lower the heating a little and turn off the lights through your mobile phone .
All of these are examples of the use of technology in the home. Specifically, home automation and the Internet of Things. Thanks to technology, we can automate many processes in our home and, through the connection of devices to the Internet , we can control them remotely , either by voice or with a mobile phone . In fact, the latter allows us to control them even if we are not present .
Practical, right? In addition, voice assistants , such as Siri or Alexa, have helped make the concept of a smart home more of a reality, as has the confinement we have experienced with COVID-19. 5G is also going to play an important role.
Comfort, safety and savings
What do we gain from smart homes? It is clear that we gain in comfort . But also in energy efficiency and, consequently, in sustainability and in economic savings on electricity, gas and water. And that is…
Smart homes allow you to save up to 30% on energy bills.
Image
But that's not all: they also have a benefit in our security . Not only at the level of cameras and motion sensors , but also gas leak, flood and fire detectors .
Smart gadgets
Through the media, we have found different devices that you can easily purchase to make your home a little smarter. We are talking, for example, about smart plugs , which we can control by voice or by mobile phone and allow us to turn on or off the devices that we have connected to them and can even be programmed. One of their strong points is that the things you plug into them, even if they are not connected, can be used a bit as if they had artificial intelligence. On the other hand, what do you say about smart light bulbs ? Which you can also control by voice and by mobile phone and they let you choose the color and intensity of the light. In addition, they also inform you about your consumption.