Smart Home Guide For Beginners: Automate Your Home On A Budget

Today’s hottest home design trend is the smart home. A smart home is a wi-fi connected home complete with a wide range of smart devices including smart hubs, smart assistants, smart lighting and home security systems, smart entertainment systems including smart tv’s and gaming consoles, smart thermostats, door locks, switches, and more. In fact, just about every aspect of today’s modern home can be transformed into a smart home.

     While smart homes are much safer, more convenient, and more energy efficient, they can also cost a lot of money. Transforming your current home will cost more than adding smart devices to a home that is under construction, but it can be done, and it can be done affordably, at that.

With that being said, we are going to take a look at some of the basic components needed to automate your home on a budget. Let’s get started:

Smart Plugs- smart plugs can turn just about any electronic device in your home into a smart device for extraordinarily little money. Lamps, radios, televisions, diffusers, and more simply get plugged into a smart plug and once configured, can be turned on or off with your voice commands.

Smart Switches- smart light switches are used to automatically control room lighting via an app, or with voice commands and an Amazon Alexa enabled device. No neutral smart switches are designed for older homes and are easy to install, set up, and use.

Smart Doorbells- smart doorbells are an inexpensive way to add additional security to your home’s front door. With a built-in camera, you can see who is at your door even if you aren’t home. You can even talk to them using the smart doorbell app.

Smart Lighting- smart light bulbs enable you to turn them on and off, dim them, change their colour, even set timers and automatic schedules using a mobile app, or voice commands and an Amazon Alexa enabled device.

Smart Cameras- a smart home security system and smart cameras add an extra layer of security for when you are home or away. You can check in on your family, your pets, or your babysitter from just about anywhere, or receive alerts of an intruder, fire, water leak, or carbon monoxide leak.

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