applications of home automation,smart lighting control,smart kitchens, smart door lock, smart elderly care, smart thermostat, smart garage door opener
APPLICATIONS OF HOME AUTOMATION
Users can remotely control the functioning of the smart device via a connected device.
Smart Lighting Control
There are two approaches to do smart lighting with your smart home. Making
the light bulb smart or the switch that controls the light bulb smart. Using
a smart light bulb, switches and dimmers connect to your hub and get
complete control to turn the lights on or off. The main players in smart
lights are Philips, LifeX, GE, and Eufy. These makers make LED bulbs that
are typically in three categories: Bulbs that go from daylight to warm
light, or multicolored bulbs. Sometimes the bulbs will use Bluetooth or
Wi-Fi or ZigBee hub that connects to your router. Smart lights can save a
lot of time.
You can turn off lights by using your voice or control through a smartphone
or set up routines for your smart lights. You can even use your location and
geofencing technology to turn on and off your lights when you come home and
leave. There are also other accessories with your smart light like wireless
dimmer switches that you can assign to control a variety of lights in your house. Some of the popular brands are WeMo, Casa, Ecobee, and Lutron.
These switches connect using a Wi-Fi network.
Alarm Systems
Alarm systems work by sending out a signal to a control station, or the
interactive platform whenever a sensor or a zone is faulted. The sensor then
reports to the administration.
Smart Kitchens
The Touch-free sensor can with voice and motion control an easy way
to through trash.
Voice-activated faucet technology
is a convenient hands-free operation.
The floor mopping robot
uses reusable microfiber cleaning cloths. It cleans all hard floor types and
also tracks them clean with navigation.
Perfect drink, perfect bake, and perfect blend connect with smartphone scale the pour
quantity of a drink.
The smart nutrient extractor
uses smart sensors that sense nutritional information of every ingredient
for your particular need.
The kitchen thermometer
connects with the smartphone-connected app that displays the real-time
temperature of your cook. With two probes you can monitor two separate
temperature ounces at the same time. You can select the recommended
temperature. Once your food is in the oven the thermometer takes care of the
food. The connected application notifies you once your food is ready. E.g.
iDevice kitchen thermometer.
The precision cooker
uses a medium-sized pot it circulates the water at a very precise
temperature and gets the desired doneness you want.
Smart Entry System
Smart entry allows you the convenience of unlocking, driving, parking, and
relocking your vehicle, and never touching a key. Smart entry remote must be
within 32 inches of the car to open front doors. Unlock sensor is used
inside the handle you can open the lock with a simple touch. The
system may respond slowly or not at all when gloves are worn.
Smart Door Lock
It has a fingerprint id, voice command, and phoneless entry for easy access
and keyless features like an auto-lock and auto-unlock. When your hands are
full a touch screen that allows you to enter a security code embedded in a
random group of numbers. It integrates all the devices into its control so
that you can receive alerts and check or control your home through your
phone anytime from anywhere. It is a simple and safe security solution with
a fingerprint that cannot be stolen or copied by anyone. Dual data
encryption with a coprocessor and dynamic key makes every single data
transfer secure. So upgrade your home to safety simplicity and style.
E.g. U-bolt pro, a smart deadbolt built to make everyday life easier. You
can give guests a temporary access code. With the ultra-lock bridge, the
Wi-Fi adapter controls it remotely on the app to receive notifications when
your child gets home from school. Distribute e-keys, the app manages and
view logs of who has entered.
Control Blinds and Curtains
Google blinds automatically close at sunset or adjust their tilt through
the day based on the angle of the sun. Thus allowing you to control them
using your smartphone, you can set a program to lower blinds and sunscreens
automatically lower during extreme sunlight, thereby keeping your house
cool. Thus, saving on energy and utility costs.
Monitor Weather Conditions
By adding temperature sensors, wind meters, rain sensors, and UV sensors to
your home automation ecosystem you can easily find out what the weather is
in your neighborhood. You can set actions such as scheduling your blinds to
automate the shutting down if strong winds are detected by wind sensors,
amongst many others.
Smart Appliance Control
Home appliances can control your smart home platform like smart blinds,
robotic vacuum cleaners, smart scales, smart plugs, etc. You can use smart
plugs to link all lights to the Google Assistant. Most of the smart
assistant platforms have routines and automation that can create within the
platform to help automate all your devices.
Elderly Care
Smart sensors can detect when a person enters a room and activate the light
accordingly. When a person has a routine broken smart sensors can easily
send an alert.
With the smart fall detection sensor, your emergency contacts will
be notified if it detects a fall as it will continuously scan the movement
of your grandparents or aging relatives and thus save their lives. The
device can be connected to the bathroom wall if your grandparents or parents
fall in contact with the emergency personnel. And you can speak directly with
them through the device to receive help. E.g. Walabot home
Smart Doorbell
used to see who is near the door without opening it and even without
going near it. The ring will send alerts to you or the caretaker’s phone
when someone is at the door. The elders can communicate with anyone who
comes to the door to identify who will be given access inside so that they
will remain safe at home. E.g. Ring
Smart medicine organizer
uses smart alarms according to schedule which works best on machine learning
and sensors. It organizes pills quickly and notifications can be received
whenever pills are due or compliance can be tracked over time. Besides, it
can store an entire bottle of small pills in the small compartment and large
pills in the large compartments for the perfect management of medicines.
E.g. Ellie’s smart medicine box.
Seniors living alone can benefit greatly from smart speakers with
built-in voice assistance such as Amazon’s Alexa or Google assistant
activated. These can be used as digital companions or tools. E.g. Amazon
echo dots, Google home minis. These are capable of preserving a smart home
hub both devices can be used as hubs for smart lights, sensors, switches,
door locks, and many other gadgets giving citizens easy access for
controlling their homes via voice commands.
Smart plugs
to turn off the stove automatically after a specific amount of time. It will
alert you if your plug-in stove has been left on for longer than usual and
will keep your elderly parents safe without any hand movements. E.g. Mini
smart plug
Smart motion sensor bulbs
for seniors: Use a schedule for smart lightning to have them turned on or up
automatically by the movement of elder people. E.g. Sengled motion detector
light
Smart Thermostat
These are Wi-Fi-connected smart thermostats that can control many smart
assistants. It has a built-in motion sensor to detect the presence of a
person in a home. Accordingly, it adjusts heating and cooling habits over
time or you can remotely control it from a mobile app anywhere in the world.
You can also schedule your heat to turn back on when you reach home. The
Nest learning thermostat learns your pattern and uses AI to predict the
temperature to set. Sensors are stick to different rooms to aggregate the
temperature data in your home to give accurate temperature.
E.g. Nest learning thermostat by Google, Ecobee4 by Amazon, Honey well.
Smart Water Tank Monitoring
Smart water tank utilizes Wi-Fi enabled hubs to link together multiple
devices including solar-powered tank senders and pump controllers. These
provide remote monitoring and management of your tanks. It can be controlled
by smartphones to view and manage the level of water in your tank.
Smart Garage Door Opener
Garage doors have enormous upgraded with the advancement of the internet
and wireless connections. It has a high-quality, durable, and noiseless
operation that keeps your living spaces ultra-quiet. The door opener has
complete control over your garage door and can lift heavy garage doors
without a problem and be convenient. It is accessed using a mobile
application with built-in smart technology that enables you to open and
close your garage doors. Its real-time alerts and activity information of
your garage door help to improve your safety and security through the app.
You can also customize a schedule for your garage door or set a recurring
time for your garage doors to open and close thereby giving a smoother flow
to a daily routine. These smart systems not only protect your vehicles but
also people with their built-in pair of infrared safety sensors. These
sensors are a safety system specially designed to detect objects or people
that would be blocking or standing in the path of an open garage door.
Smart Security Systems
The hub connects to your magnetic door/ window sensors, home surveillance
cameras, smoke sensors, and motion sensors and can be configured to send
push alerts to your smartphone when you are away. This can be achieved by
installing the sensors base station, cameras, and supporting equipment of
security devices with monitoring services. These cameras are compatible with
smart home platforms. You can build a wireless home security system that
fits your needs and keeps you updated.
Voice Assistants/ Control
This functionality allows you to play music and media throughout your home
using smart speakers. Amazon, Apple, and Google, all make their smart
speakers that will play various music streaming services natively on the
speaker itself.
E.g. Google Nest Mini, Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max, Nest Audio, Google Home Max,
Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot, and the Home Pod Mini.
The Google Nest Hub and Amazon Echo have the benefit of having a screen on
them. Which makes controlling your media as well as other smart home devices
easier.
How to control media rooms?
This involves controlling a TV or projector-associated speaker and then the
lighting of your media room. Apple, Amazon, and Google make the best TV
streaming devices that will enable you to turn on and off your TV and other
devices with an assistant. They deliver content from major streaming
services and support the latest formats like 4k HDR.
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