How to make a smart home with smart devices
How can you make a home smart ? Is it a difficult operation? What devices are needed? In this article we will see together what makes a home automation and what are the most useful devices, with naturally a particular focus on thermoregulation.
Smart home: what it means
Making a intelligent home , or smart to use English, means equipping it with devices that allow you to communicate with the home , controlling and automating certain aspects with the aim of improve comfort and optimize energy consumption .
There are various home automation interventions that contribute to the creation of a smart home , but the fundamental aspect to be able to talk about a smart home is wifi connection .
We are in fact talking about IoT devices ( Internet of Things ), i.e. devices that have the possibility of connecting to the wifi network and, in this way, communicating with other devices or with a control hub which manages the entire system and automates certain functions depending on the user's requests, or preferences.
5 Smart Devices to Make Your Home Smart
There are many smart home products on the market: wifi devices , actuators and sensors which can contribute to make your home smart . Below we indicate some of them, which in addition to simplifying the control of the home, also have an important impact on energy management.
- Smart chronothermostat :
The chronothermostat helps reduce consumption related to home heating, thanks to the management of switching on and off on an hourly basis. The ability to connect the thermostat via the wifi network allows you to control the heating via app , monitoring consumption directly from a smartphone and giving even more the possibility of turning on the heating only when really needed. In this field Seitron offers two different solutions, the Wi-Time Wall chronothermostat and the Home hygge kit . - Devices to monitor air quality :
Monitoring air quality is a topic that has taken on new centrality following the pandemic. With modern air quality monitor you can always have the air quality in your home under control from your smartphone and automate actions such as air exchange thanks to wifi communication. Thanks to these devices, air recycling can be done only when needed and for the necessary time, without unnecessarily dispersing the heat of the environment. - Smoke/gas detectors :
Even gas detectors, fundamental devices for increasing home safety, are now available with a wifi connection, which allows you to receive a notification directly on your smartphone in case of danger. - Smart appliances :
Here your imagination can run wild, from the oven to the fridge, through the dishwasher and washing machine, practically all the best-known brands offer smart solutions . Of course the features remotely controllable vary by device, but all serve the purpose of simplify and automate the management of the appliance as much as possible. - Voice assistants :
The voice assistant can in a certain sense be understood as the heart of a smart home . Thanks to assistants like Google Home o Alexa it is in fact possible to communicate with all the smart devices in the home, to receive information such as what temperature is in the house, or start actions, such as turning on the lights, showing a film, and so on, both via voice commands and via app. In short, one device to rule them all!
Are smart home and home automation the same thing?
The term home automation refers to all those improvements that can be made to home systems to automate certain actions, such as motorized shutters.
The smart home instead it can be seen as an evolution of home automation realized through IoT devices. In fact, while in a home automation home the connection between various devices must be made physically, via cables, in a smart home communication occurs via wifi .
This obviously also allows connection to the network, allowing remote management and saving of data in cloud , which can then be reprocessed through AI systems (Artificial Intelligence) to learn our habits and, for example, optimize consumption and reduce waste .