Smart Doesn’t Always Mean an Easy Home
When the possibility of creating smart homes first became a feasible task, it turned out to be more complicated than originally anticipated. Since then, the technology has improved with more accurate sensors and voice control abilities, making it much easier to create and operate a smart home. We haven’t quite reached perfection in terms of interoperability, but smart technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) are on pace to become universally accepted home solutions.
Smart technology is invading many households in the form of various appliances and devices, all connected to the internet. The purpose of this is to provide home owners with the ability to control devices from the comfort of their phones. Adam Justice, Vice President of Grid Connect, talks about how smart tech can ease the pain of household problems, “It solves the problem of my wife and I both being in bed and arguing over who is going to get up to turn out the lights. So you could say it solves marital problems.” Even though this is a very simple example of how IoT devices can help with home control, there are much larger and more powerful automations that can be accessed.
The rewarding feeling of being able to control a device with the touch of a button, or with voice control, does not stop at single device automation. The ability to create “scenes” allows users to command multiple devices with the use of a single voice command. Establishing scenes will make home automation so much more simple, while simultaneously improving the convenience of the installed tech.
The ability to control both individual devices and networks of devices with a single voice command is just one of the many great features of smart technology. That being said, things can get a bit complicated when it comes to getting devices from different manufacturers to operate in a system together. There are various companies such as trying to solve the issue of interoperability, but Apple’s HomeKit and Amazon’s Echo are at the forefront of the innovation. HomeKit is the distinguished frontrunner because it is extremely easy to setup and allows users to control an assortment of devices from a single app.
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