SMART HOME TECNOLOGY INCREASING PROPERTY'S VALUE AND APPEAL

Smart Home Technology increasing property’s value and appeal

 

Home, everyone dreams of a home and wants to own it. This is because homes have become our necessity. This is the only place where you are able to feel free. A place where you can relax when you come back from office. A place that shows your stability in a society. A place where you feel secure with your family but what if I say that you can make it more secure, more comfortable and more advanced.  In this modern era the human beings are making every possible effort to make our life easy and comfortable. You must have heard about Smart homes. The smart homes have proved to be a great achievement for the humankind. Smart homes are changing our lifestyle and shaping our home as an advanced and a better residential. A developed residential with advance features by which you can access your entire home. Smart home technology adds value to your home and increases your property’s value and appeal therefore there is a high demand for smart homes on a large scale.

Let’s delve into the subject

What is a Smart Home?

As the name suggests, a home with smart features, smarter and more advance than other homes. Are you always worried about the security of your home? Does this thing concern you too that whenever you are out of your home or in the office, you feel suspicious. You doubt yourself that did you lock the door, did you switch off the fan, did you turn off the gas stove? so on. You need not worry about such things in relation to smart homes because you can find it out through your mobile phone and tablet from anywhere. The thing that creates a huge different between a smart home and an ordinary home is technology. You connect your home’s devices and appliances to the central hub or network so that they may create a bridge of communication and send or receive the messages then you are able to operate them remotely. Smart homes offer you a significant value to your life with digital gadgets. It includes Smart Thermostats, Smart Speakers, Smart Lighting, Smart Locks, Smart Security System, Smart Appliance, and Smart Hub. It increases convenience, enhances connectivity, improves security, and personalises experiences. 

How does it work?

Basically, Smart Homes contain Sensors and Servers. Sensors are such devices that collect data and capture your home’s environment and activity. For instance, Motion sensors, Temperature sensors, and door/window sensors. If we talk about servers, these are cloud-based remote severs which we access through internet. You can monitor multiple sensors by configuring the severs from any location. One of the most important parts of smart home is Hub which we also know as a gateway. Hub is a network connecting device which is used to connect multiple devices together within a local network to communicate and share data. It is connected to home router through ethernet cable. Isotropic sensors can be connected to hubs for data collection and processing. This is how you can command smart hub by smart phones, tablets, remote controller, or voice command from even a long distance but there is only one condition that your home must have a good internet connection as well as in your smart phone then your smart phone and home connect to cloud and communicate via cloud.

Now, let’s have a look at few smart devices

1. Smart Thermostat: Thermostat is a device that is mainly used with these common appliances in our home such as, Refrigerator, Freezer, WAC, and Heater. Thermostat is like a brain of your cooling and heating system. Its function is to control cooling and heating. It senses the temperature of you home and then decides it, if it needs to go up or go down. Modern smart thermostats can be controlled right from your smart phone. You can easily adjust your entire home’s temperature from anywhere using your smart phone, tablet, or even voice commands. Smart thermostat also captures your habit and adjust the temperature according to your wish. The perfect temperature is at your home and you are the climate changer. 

1.   2. Smart Speaker: Smart Speaker is voice-activated electronic device that can perform every single task which you command. For example, playing music, setting alarms and timers, controlling smart home devices, providing information etc. If you feel like to have fun, just ask it to play a song then it will show make you a favourite play list. Are you alone and want to talk to someone or need a piece of knowledge, a smart speaker is always ready to talk to you and answer to your questions. It gathers the information all around the world and shows you up. Using voice command you can control your entire home. You can command it to set reminder, alarms, or timers. Your voice command is enough to turn off or on the lights, to change the thermostats, and to set security systems.

1.      3. Smart Lighting: Smart Lighting is the one of the best devices of smart home. These are the lights that can be controlled remotely. Its features beg description. It includes smart LED bulbs, smart strips, and smart ceiling fans. Smart lighting literally offers you smart decorative lighting. RGB Lights with multiple colours. You are able to change the colours of your light according to your mood. You can turn warm white into cool white light. We can also operate smart lighting by voice command after connecting it to the smart speaker as well as by your smart phone. If you often forget to turn off the light, it is going to be very beneficial for you because you can control it from your bed to your office. Scheduling is one more feature which smart lighting possesses. It can be set a schedule of a timer then it will automatically turn on or off the lights when it needs.

  

1.      4. Smart Security System: It goes without saying that everyone worries about their securities. You too definitely want to keep secure your family and home. Smart security system ensures you for your home’s security. These systems include smart hub, smart cameras, smart sensors, smart locks and alarms to monitor your home’s security.

 

•       Smart Hub: this central device acts like the brain of the system, it works to connect all the components and manage their function. Such as, Cloud Cameras, Smart Lighting, Smart Switches, Door Sensors and Water Leakage Detector so on.

 

•      Smart Sensors: There are different types of sensors to detect different types of motions and activities. It provides you information about any particular object. Such as, its height, distance, and temperature etc. It is essential for the system to make it automatic.

 

 

•         Smart Alarms: This device can be used to protect your home and business. Smart alarm makes you more alert through custom sounds and vibrations whenever anyone tries to enter your home, office, or factory without your permission, smart alarm makes you more alert with custom sounds, vibrations and light patterns.

•      Smart Cameras: Smart Cameras can be very effective in terms of your security system. Its advance features make far better than any traditional camera. like traditional cameras, it doesn’t only capture images but also analyse and interpret the captured data. Smart cameras can identify the object by facial recognition, object detection, motion detection, people counting, and license plate recognition.

With these all features, (devices and gadgets) a smart home technology enhances your home’s value and appeal.  People all around the world are leaning towards smart homes and shaping their home into an advanced residential and making their life more easy, comfortable and secure.