WHAT IS SMART HOME AUTOMATION?

by Product Specialist

A futuristic Smart Home is no longer a thing of science fiction movies or cartoons. Integrating just about every electrical device inside of your home is now a reality, giving you complete control over everything. So, the next time you step out for a shopping trip, an evening at the theater, or take a weekend excursion, you can adjust your lights, thermostat, turn off the television and lock doors and windows, all from your smart phone. Smart home control helps set your house apart from the rest of the neighborhood with the peace of mind you want for you and your family. Best of all, with smart home automation, you can easily take all of the equipment with you, should you decide to move in the future.

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What is Smart Home Control?

Smart home control is connecting all the systems, equipment and appliances in your home to a Smart Controller like Control4's HC 800 so they can all communicate with each other and with your smart phone. This Internet connection gives you direct control over your home from your fingertips, even if you are out of the house. Beyond this, due to the automation element of the Internet appliances, some of the equipment can actually learn from how you use it and alter its functionality. So, instead of constantly changing the thermostat to meet your temperature needs or checking your stove to see when it reaches proper temperature, the system can let you know, and in some instances can even do it for you, without any sort of prompting. This not only makes life so much easier for you, but it also helps save you money and keeps you and your family safer as well.

What Smart Home Automation Appliances are Available?

If there is one location in your entire house you could use something smart, it would be the kitchen. Sure, you may have had some form of smart home automation in different areas of the house for years, such as the thermostat and HVAC system, but the kitchen is really where much of the latest technology has been focused. Don't you wish you could control your oven with the flip of your smart phone? If you are like many other people who love to cook, you might have to run out of the house on an errand, only to remember you have something in the stove and unless you turn the temperature off soon, the entire meal is going to go up in smoke. Now, instead of dropping everything and trying to rush home before the turkey dries out completely, all you need to do is pull out your smart phone and adjust the temperature. There are even ovens that tell you when your roast is ready.

Smart refrigerators also offer several conveniences. You can alter the way your fridge makes ice while away from the house. You can even have the fridge tell you what you are running low on (or are completely out of). Did you forget if you are out of milk or have 2 gallons already sitting inside? Your smart fridge can tell you this anytime.

Smart home automation light bulbs are available, giving you complete control over the lighting configuration of your house. Have you ever arrived at home in the middle of the night and wished you had left a light on? Now you can save the energy and just turn the light on with your phone.

Take your home to the next level with new generation technology. Smart Home Automation and Controls can help make your life easier in every single way.

About the author: Philip De Terlizzi is the Director of Sales & Marketing at County TV & Appliance of Stamford.