What does the Smart home system offer for ordinary users?
What use cases can Smart home systems offer?
The constant development of technologies, the desire to improve the quality of life and the efforts of manufacturers allow us to offer customers new solutions that meet their needs – all this has inspired the creation of “Smart home” systems, that is, integrated control systems that allow you to automatically manage your home installations and equipment. Find out how a smart home can make your life easier.
What functions can the Smart Home system perform?
The Smart home system improves the comfort and safety of family members and provides functional solutions that save time and reduce operating costs.
A smart home can, for example:
Simulate the presence of household members – the system can help create the impression that people are in the house. This is possible thanks to options such as synchronizing the raising and lowering of the blinds, turning on the lights, or even playing music. For example, this option is readily used by people who are going on vacation – this gives the impression that the person watching the house does not leave the building.
Control lighting – using the Smart home system, we can turn on and off lights in the house and garden based on pre-programmed scenarios or based on the readings of a motion sensor (which turns on the light when presence is detected). This increases comfort and allows you to save on bills – the system can, for example, turn off the light that we forgot to turn off.
Adjust the temperature level in the house-connecting the system with temperature sensors means that the Smart home system can, for example, automatically lower the external blinds to protect the room from excessive heating, or start the air conditioner when it is too hot inside, and turn it off when the window is open (so that the air conditioner does not go out unnecessarily, consuming energy).
Alert about dangerous situations – the system can send a notification to the user or the police-informing, among other things, about an attempted burglary, unauthorized opening of Windows, or a fire.
Manage home electronic devices-this includes, for example, controlling surveillance cameras, starting sprinklers in the garden at certain times, or turning appliances and electronics on and off.
Simplify everyday life thanks to pre-programmed scenarios-personalization of the system allows you to adapt the program to individual requirements and needs – for example, to make sure that the external roller blinds will be raised every day at the same time when we start work, so that we do not waste our time on this task.
Provide information to the user through a special app. The ability to remotely control the system using a phone or tablet means that even away from home we can, for example, check whether we have closed the door or the garage door.
It should be emphasized that not every Smart home system has the same capabilities and can perform all the tasks listed above. The available parameters depend on the selected system and its improvement. Some of them are simpler, others are more complex – which, of course, also affects their price.