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Smart Homes
Home is a place where people living in feel safe, cared and appreciated. Smart Homes enhance
this experience and provide a better life for the people living in them.
Smart Homes are homes that use internet connected devices to empower remote monitoring
and management of appliances and devices such as for lighting and heating.
Brainy Fact
The most common Smart Home devices include appliances, camera systems,
thermostats, security systems and lighting.
Benefits of Smart Homes
Smart Homes provide insights to efficient energy usage. They also enhance people’s level of
safety. The benefits are:
• Power Saver: Smart Homes are great at saving power. Often it is found that people are lazy
in turning off lights, which increases the consumption of power and water. These types of
homes allow their users to turn off the lights and electronic gadgets even when they are off
to bed.
• Increased Energy Efficiency: The Smart Home technology makes it possible to make the
home energy-efficient. The control of heating and cooling of home with a programmable
thermostat learns the user’s preferences and then suggests the best energy efficient settings
throughout the day. Even the lights could be programmed to automatically switch to an
evening mode as the sun sets or automatically turn off when no one is at home.
• Protect Home and its Belongings: The home is protected from intruders with AI
systems. Once they are configured, the door/window and motion sensors notify the
owner when someone tries to break in their house, when no one is at home. There are
wireless doorbells and intelligent locks that provide an additional level of security to live
with mental peace.
• Interactive Home: The AI enabled appliances are controlled through voice or smart phones.
Some appliances even support gestures by sensing the motion like hand gestures or tap
recognition like a knock.
• One Point Access: All the devices are accessed from one point, that is one of the biggest
advantages of a Smart Home. Gadgets are connected through one interface and are
completely controlled by the app on tablets or smartphones. These apps are user friendly
and easy to access.
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