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Since everyone likes to have a smart home, we thought of giving some tips to create your own smart home. Therefore we plan to publish a series of step by step guides on connecting existing devices/appliances with smart switches. Our primary concern is to support you with your developments while assisting in selecting the most dependable and cost-effective solutions.
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What is a Smart Home?
A home equipped with lights, heating systems, and electronic devices that can be controlled remotely by smartphone or a voice assistant can address as a smart home. Fully automated Smart homes also can protect themselves from theft and burglars.
Smart Home description can fit in a few lines, it includes a vast area. There are a few basics that we think it is essentials that we need to consider while designing a smart home. The list can increase if you are in a developing country.
Things to consider before building a smart home?
1-3 points mostly apply for developing countries we will try to address the issues in our future issues.
- People who live in developing countries should plan for thunder lightning & surge arresting system to avoid damage to the connected devices.
- If frequent power fluctuations occur and if the wifi router often reboots probably there may be times, that smart devices go offline for quite a long time which can stop you from operating the systems remotely.
- Power variations also can create a surge or increase than the nominal voltage. Possible Solution for sudden low voltage / high voltage
- What devices do you wish to connect with the automated system?
- Does your Wi-Fi router coves the whole house?
- What is the daily routine that needs to be automated?
- Up to what extent can you do the installations by your self?
- Finally, you might have to talk to your landlord if you plan to change the core wiring systems.
Affordable Smart Home Gadgets
With the competition, many companies have started producing smart gadgets. Furthermore, we have listed a few cost-effective models which we plan to use in our future guides.
- Itead Son Off
- BroadLink
- Xiaomi
- Philips
- Amazon Echo Dot
- Google Home Mini
