What is smart home or home automation?
Recently, we have been hearing more and more about home automation and smart homes. Indeed, with the smashing arrival of giants like Amazon, Google or Apple, we can no longer miss this phenomenon.
Whether you are a tenant, a homeowner, a senior or a young working person, everyone can now enjoy home automation and the smart home.
What's the point of that?
Home automation is a set of interoperable and non-interoperable computer, electronic and telecommunication techniques that will allow the control of different systems and devices in the home.
This will allow you to control all the devices in your home with your fingertips through your smartphone, tablet or computer. This solution will bring 4 major benefits, comfort, security, communication and economy.
In terms of comfort, the user will be able to optimize the lighting and heating of his house in a simple and efficient way. Indeed, before smartphones were on the market, it was already possible to control your heating devices remotely. However, such an installation was quite complicated and required a considerable investment. This type of installation was expensive and complicated. Over time, the field of home automation (smart home) has evolved into a product for the general public. The fall in the price of the Internet and electronic components in recent years has played a key role in the diffusion of connected objects and devices for the connected home. Many simple and affordable solutions exist and are gradually flooding the market.
The smart house will be able to adapt to your behaviour and send information to all the devices in your house. Your home will be able to know how far from your home you are, open the gate, open the shutters, turn on the coffee maker, set the temperature in your home, turn on the radio and even play your favourite music playlist. You can also speak directly to your home using voice assistants such as Alexa from Amazon.
In addition to improving your comfort, the smart home will allow you to reduce your energy consumption and therefore reduce your electricity, gas or water bill. Indeed, when you leave your home, you can put your heating in eco mode and turn off all the lights and appliances that have remained in standby, allowing you to reduce your energy consumption considerably when you are not there.