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Friday, November 3, 2017

How To Make Your Home Smart

By Rebecca Walker


Tech world is rushing to connect everything to the internet. This is bound to transform living spaces with homes being the target of technological creativity. When you think of how to make your home smart, several gadgets come to mind. These gadgets are meant to reduce the hustle of rising from the seat or punching the remote a hundred times in order to find the best music combination. Here are gadgets and technological investments that will transform any house.

A WIFI thermostat defines a smart home or living area in most circles. It works by identifying different conditions and saving them for speed dial. For instance, it identifies your most preferred temperature, humidity, wind, and such conditions. By the time you get to the house as programmed, you will enter into a house that meets these conditions. You do not have to deal with each appliance at a time. With your phone, you customize different modes for your house and activate then with a click.

What is you can adjust the mood of a room from a phone? This is what the hue family of lighting bulbs does for you. It will dim and brighten your lights from time to time. In the process of dimming and brightening your room, you will also save a few dollars on utility.

The nest protect is a device that detects air quality indoors and alerts through a loud sounding alarm whenever it detects danger. Some of the gases that this gadget will detect include carbon monoxide that would be potentially fatal for the entire family. For sloppy cooks, you may need to turn down detection of some gases unless you want the alarm to go off every time the toast gets roasted.

Bluetooth speakers are already with us. However, you still need to punch the remote, insert the memory stick and select songs along the way. What is you could just speak and the speaker searches for the song online? This is the magic of internet enabled speakers. You program voices into the speaker and whenever you mention the song, it will search automatically from the internet.

Net cameras are on the rise. They integrate security and allow you to be at home as well as activate the alarm from remote locations. It allows you to stream from any location through the internet and view different sections of your house. If someone knocks on the door, you can talk to him or her through the loud speaker. This is the definition of being home even when you are away.

How about monitoring appliances and devices that consume energy in your house? There is an automatic plug that allows you to shut down an appliance once it has hit a particular level of consumption. You may also shut down all appliances that are connected to the plug as you leave the house. It is only worth a few tens of dollars.

Smart technology comes in different formats. You will need to make a decision on the gadgets to install. You even have the option of cleaning the floor or locking doors from your phone and remotely. All this technology comes at a price but with good decision making, the price will be worth.




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