How To Make Your Home Smart At Almost Zero Budget

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By Rebecca Walker


Tech world is rushing to connect everything to the internet. This is bound to transform living spaces with homes being the target of technological creativity. When you think of how to make your home smart, several gadgets come to mind. These gadgets are meant to reduce the hustle of rising from the seat or punching the remote a hundred times in order to find the best music combination. Here are gadgets and technological investments that will transform any house.

A WIFI thermostat is considered the face of smartening any room. The devices are perfect for synchronizing the conditions in your room including temperature and even learning your schedules. The idea is to ensure that whenever you step into the house, you will have the perfect condition other than having to switch on the AC and other gadget. The thermostat is controlled using a phone app.

Lighting is used to adjust the mood of a room. What it you can do the adjustment through your phone? The family of hue bulbs offers this opportunity. The room will take your desire color as well as be bright or dark by being controlled from your phone. This also allows you to save energy and thus reduce your utility expenditure.

The nest protect is a device that detects air quality indoors and alerts through a loud sounding alarm whenever it detects danger. Some of the gases that this gadget will detect include carbon monoxide that would be potentially fatal for the entire family. For sloppy cooks, you may need to turn down detection of some gases unless you want the alarm to go off every time the toast gets roasted.

While the world is saturate with Bluetooth speakers, they still depend on manual control. The latest technology is where you call out the name of a song, it is searched live and streamed through the speakers. This happens through customizing your search voice. You do not have to create a list with your memory stick and then have to bear with continued repetition. The songs play as if you are just thinking them off head.

Net streaming cameras are on mobile devices already. But they have been taken a notch higher by enabling you to stream proceedings from a remote location. When installed at your door, you will see the visitor knocking, talk to him or her over loud speaker and take necessary actions like opening the door or raising an alarm. This is the best option when you have kids who have to be monitored.

How about monitoring appliances and devices that consume energy in your house? There is an automatic plug that allows you to shut down an appliance once it has hit a particular level of consumption. You may also shut down all appliances that are connected to the plug as you leave the house. It is only worth a few tens of dollars.

There are many other options to keep a home smart depending on personal preferences. They range from locking doors to cleaning the floor or carpet in your absence. The decision to incorporate any technology will depend on the areas you wish to focus on. There are budgetary implications for all the decisions you make.




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