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More recently, a younger member of the family worked as a TV remote control. And now you don’t even have to turn on the dishwasher yourself.
“That would be great: you come home and dinner is ready.” Who among us has not indulged in such dreams? And who hasn’t been tormented by thoughts like “Did I turn off the iron when I left home? Did you close the window? ” or “What are my kids doing while I’m gone?” We did not even notice how dreams became reality, and that we no longer need to suffer from the torment of the unknown.
What a truly smart home is capable of, Eugene Ivakh, a specialist in the network of digital and household appliances DNS, told Wday.ru.
1. Control center
If you are serious and want to turn your life into a life without unnecessary worries, then this is the first thing to buy! Through the control center, communication with all smart devices in the house takes place. With its help, you can create a scenario for devices. Example: you leave home and set the desired mode. The control center sends signals to devices operating in this mode: the lights are turned off, the curtains are drawn in, the devices operating from smart sockets are turned off. Everything! With one button you have replaced the house walk! The control center works through a mobile application. As a bonus: you can even control it with a voice, and you can connect more than 300 smart devices to it: sensors, video intercoms, electronic locks, sockets, relays, thermostats, warm floors and others.
2. Smart cameras
What do the children do after school and what time did they come home at all? What about elderly parents who are alone at home? What does the nanny do while you are at work? With the help of the application, a small PTZ camera will tell and record in a video log everything that worries you so much, and everything that your eyes cannot see! The gadget can upload data to Google or Yandex.Disk. For those who are worried about their car, there are also street cameras: now you will know exactly who scratched your car.
3. Smart sockets
An invention for household scleros: those who always do not remember whether they turned off the light in the bathroom, iron or TV. Remotely, using a mobile application, you can send a command to the smart outlet, and it will instantly de-energize the devices powered by it. This device is especially good for a children’s room: one press – and you are sure that the children have a hang-up, and they are not watching TV!
And one more cool life hack: if the electricity bills surprise you with tidy sums, get a smart outlet that measures energy consumption. So you will quickly figure out which device has decided not to deny itself anything.
4. Appliances
And here you can not deny yourself anything. A multicooker half an hour or an hour before your arrival will begin to cook soup or roast, the dishwasher will start at a certain time, the kettle can be turned on without getting up from the sofa, and coffee will be brewed while you take a shower. In the same way, you can control the oven, bread maker, heater from the phone. Well, the refrigerator will kindly send you photos of the contents to your smartphone so that you don’t forget to buy eggs or cheese.
Just keep in mind: the multicooker will not cook porridge or spaghetti in advance. If you fill them with water in advance, then in the bowl you will find an indistinct mass, similar to a soggy paste. But the device will cope with meat and fish without problems.
5. Motion sensors
They will protect the house from fires, floods, the entry of strangers into your territory, control whether windows, doors, garage and even cabinets are open or closed! How it works? As soon as the sensor is triggered, a notification is sent to your smartphone, and you will learn about what is happening at home: for example, the children opened the closet into which you forbade them to look. These handy devices will allow you not to worry about the safety of your property and the whereabouts of your family when you are not around.
6. Security panel and automatic backlight
With the help of the first device, you can remotely set the house on the alarm or, conversely, turn it off. You can send an SOS panic signal if something happens.
A smart lamp with motion and light sensor organizes autonomous night illumination. It reacts to movement only in the dark and works without additional smart devices. A smart wall switch, which can be remotely controlled, will also help you avoid unnecessary movements. A smart base / plinth comes in handy to control the lighting in your home.
7. Air conditioning
It would seem, why should he be smart? Turned it on – and that’s it. But the developers of the technology decided that it would be much more convenient to live if you can give voice commands to the device through the application. So the air conditioner with the help of special sensors will ensure that the temperature is optimal for you in the house, regulate the humidity level, and for those who are especially sensitive to weather changes, it will be able to start a comfortable climate half an hour before your return home.
8. Robot vacuum cleaner
This is a compact floor cleaner, stuffed with sensors to navigate in space and not stubbornly punch through the wall or furniture, but bypass the obstacle. Using an app on a smartphone, you can develop a cleaning program for the device, start and stop it, and even get cleaning statistics.