Home smart home: Tips to create your own smart home

What is a smart home?

A smart home is a home which is designed with highly advanced automatic systems for lighting, security, temperature control, multi-media, window and door operations and so on. This home appears to be intelligent because of its monitoring of all the home functions through a computer. Likewise, a refrigerator can list and record all its contents and suggest menu. Similarly, other functions like cleaning and the watering of plants is also done automatically. The main component of a smart home is an increase use of gadgets all over. These factors make everything in a home automatic and easy.

Home automation involves the automatic control of lighting, security and temperature.

Earlier the smart home automation concept was the bastion of luxury apartments with penthouses and was owned by only rich people. But today, the increased usage of gadgets in every home with pervasive internet access and cheaper equipment means that has led to the increase in smart home buyers. Now anyone with deep pockets can switch their heating on or their lights with a swipe on their smartphone.

The contemporary form of housing: Smart housing is gyrated around gadgets like a talking fridge which can give you a list of all its contents and alert you regarding the expiry of foods. The refrigerator also reduces energy bills, improving security and connecting entertainment media. The smart home companies have designed the dwelling in a way where a central hub is plugged into routers puts the consumers in complete control of their homes from anywhere.

In a smart home, the key fobs will alert the system when a person leaves their home and switches off the lights and activates the locks by turning off the heating system. The other connected systems like the thermostat, the washing machines and the security cameras in the smart home can be controlled by the smartphone app and the consumer can also alter the settings remotely and monitor rooms by turning off the lights automatically.

Necessary gadgets for a smart home

• Smartphone meter readings: To create meter readings for electricity and gas.
• An all-in-one tablet as remote: The contemporary tablets have all the requirements needed to control all the home functions automatically.
• An automatic Television recorder.
• Digital IP cameras.

Factors to be focused

The important factors to be focused on while creating a smart home are-

• The prewire planning.
• The security, smoke detection and access system.
• The distribution system for cable, satellite and camera video along with PC internet network.
• An automated phone system.
• The complete home control and automation system.
• The complete home audio system.
• An appliance module, lamp module, motion sensor, firecracker, PC receiver, computer interface and a remote.

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