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What Is Smart Home Automation?
A Smart home automation system is the brain of the home. It connects to any other device or system inside the home, providing you with a convenient, kid-friendly, and affordable way to coordinate and control everything from humidifiers, air conditioning units, and heaters to lights, pet feeders, and cameras. Start off with a single device and slowly add more until every appliance and gadget in your home is connected into a seamless network, with you in control.
At Audiovideoking, we’ve helped hundreds of customers in the Los Angeles area automate their homes to make life easier, more efficient, and just more fun. In this post, let’s take a look at exactly what home automation involves and why it might be right for you.
What Are the Benefits of An Automated Home?
Home automation allows you to easily coordinate and control all the different systems inside the home.
For example, you can set the lights to dim at a certain hour to help you fall asleep. If going away from home, you can set the lights to randomly turn on and off to make it seem someone is inside when all that was happening is the lights playing pranks.
When all the other home systems are connected to the brain, you get a convenient way to coordinate and control temperature, lighting, and security with audio/video capabilities. Our Smart Home automation Installer can setup your system to your needs.
The ability to control cooling and heating set points when away from home can reduce the power bill by 10-30%. The security video feed from an internet-enabled webcam, nanny cam or even a smartphone camera lets you peek inside your home at any time.Any appliance with internet connectivity can be controlled. For example, pet owners can check up on and micromanage feeders. The home brain can be set to alert and update you with email or text messages whenever an appliance does something or an event occurs. According to real estate agent estimates, home automation increases two major selling points of homes – convenience and security. This results in the automated home on average getting a 3-5% increase in resale value.
What Are
the Favorite Uses
for Home Automation?
- Lights: Never touch a light switch again. When your lights are connected to your home automation system, you can easily turn them on and off, as well as dim them, from your device.
- Home Theater: Upgrade your movie and TV viewing experience with automation. You’ll be able to control every viewing center in the home from one place. Put something on for the kids in the den while you are watching the big game in the living room.
- Music: Access all of your music, from Pandora to iTunes, with complete control over volume, surround sound, and more.
- Voice Command: Smart speakers like Alexa and Google Assistant bring your home automation to a whole new level. You don’t even need your device on hand when you can control everything with your voice. Play music, adjust the lights, change the channels, and more. Almost any function of your home automation system can be integrated with your smart speaker.
FAQs.
The home automation system can fit any budget. There is a starting cost but thanks to company partnerships, it is lower than ever before while providing a larger choice of devices.Every lifestyle can find a suitable home automation system but the size of the home and the number of compatible devices are the two greatest factors that determine the price.
If you already own compatible devices, they can be connected to the Smart home automation system straight away. The larger the house, the more devices you will have to install to do the same thing.The home automation system pays for itself over time through energy savings. Talk to the salesperson about customizing the system for your needs.All companies are starting to produce automated, interconnected and remotely controlled devices. We’re already using them all the time, now it is just a matter of connecting them into a single system.
Of course, home automation is designed to be controlled remotely, which includes internet and phone connections. There are no added fees, charges or subscriptions.Wherever you have an internet or phone connection, you can control and coordinate your automated home system using a smartphone, tablet, e-reader, and other devices.
The connection works both ways and the automated home system can contact you whenever a scheduled action occurs or something out of the ordinary happens.For example, you can set up an alert for when a camera notices someone in front of the door. Tap a button to get a live audio/video feed from the front door and see a delivery person.
You tap another button and now your device’s microphone is connected to the camera’s. You talk to your device and chat with the delivery person.You can set up the home automation system to make everyone think there is always someone at home, no matter where you are and what you are doing.
The messaging can be customized so you can get a notification when kids get back home from school or that the feeder or door flap has activated. You can track your pet throughout the house and make sure it is always safe, fed and sound. Our Smart Home Automation Installer go through extensive training.
Add and remove devices as you see fit. You are the king of your castle and the home automation system makes your devices into butlers that do as instructed. Start off with a single device and then expand or shrink it as you please. Add:
- Spa
- Pool
- Remotes
- Touchscreens
- Access control
- Irrigation control
- Video surveillance
- Window treatments
- Wireless door locks
- Home theater controls
- Multi-room audio systems
There many more functions you can also add.Other technologies can be added to a home automation system as long as they are compatible with it. Thanks to partnerships between companies, the compatibility between devices keep growing with each passing day. Check out Control 4