The future of Wireless Home Monitor technology
I don’t know about you, but most people would jump at the chance to automate more things in their lives if doing so were affordable and could be achieved with reasonably minimal effort. Well, you’re in luck. Most of us are able to automate at least certain aspects of home life today because they don’t cost an arm or a leg, and they aren’t difficult to install. This blog focuses on how you can simply and relatively inexpensively control many of your daily tasks. Not only that, most of what I cover can be handled remotely, meaning you don’t even have to be at home to do this awesome stuff.
Today, all you need to implement a home automation system is an Internet connection and (in some cases, but not all) a device to control it, such as a smartphone, table, or computer. Of course, you have to purchase a system or appliances, but many of them that utilize your Wi-Fi network (or even your home’s power lines) are inexpensive. Another bonus with today’s home automation technology is that you can start as small as you like and build up to as large as you like. For example, with a kit such as the WeMo Switch + Motion kit from Belkin, you can begin with just a smart wall outlet and a motion detector, but can add more and more WeMo devices to your heart’s content.
Benefitting from Wireless Home Cameras
The idea of home automation is really cool and futuristic, but if that’s your only motivation to automate the things in your home, you just might be missing the forest for the trees. Sure, you can impress friends by turning on your fireplace with a tap of your iPhone, but benefits of home automation go way beyond bragging rights.
Convenience is key!
Convenience is indeed the key; otherwise, what’s truly the point? The words “home” and “automation” fit together perfectly to describe how to get things done easier, better, and faster than ever before, which equates to convenience. Want a few examples of how today’s home automation is convenient? Okay, here you go:
✓ Your teenage son calls from a friend’s cellphone and tells you he’s locked his keys and everything else he owns in the car you let him borrow. This kid is 30 minutes away — not good. Suddenly you remember you had installed a device in your car that enables you to unlock it (and even start it) from a million miles away with your smartphone. A few taps and swipes on your phone, and your son is back in the car. Convenience.
Wireless Camera
✓ The lawn needs mowing before company arrives this weekend, but you’ve been in meetings all week on the other side of the country, and now you’re stuck in the airport. Whip out your Android phone, open your robotic lawn mower’s app, and tell it to get to work. The lawn’s done before your plane even lands. Convenience.
✓ You and the family are singing “Let It Go” of Frozen fame for the 100th time on your road trip to Disney World when it dawns on you (three hours away from home) that you left the lights on and an electric heater running in the bathroom. You calmly fire up your iOS tablet, open the app for your home automation system, and turn off the lights and the outlet the heater is plugged in to. Dare I use the “C” word again? You bet I do. Convenience.
Security
Fewer things in life are more appreciated than security — in this case, knowing (or at least feeling) that you’re more safe doing things a certain way or using certain devices. Today’s Internet-based home automation technology gives one just that kind of security. Sure, home security companies have been in existence for decades now, and they are great at what they do. People also have had personal means of protection that usually work as intended, provided they’re used properly. Wireless Security Cameras have also been providing more home security for some time, although they typically were expensive to install. With today’s tech,however, you can secure your home in myriad ways you never were able to before:
✓ Wireless Alarm System provide a look into your home from anywhere you have an Internet connection.
✓ Motion detectors keep you privy to any activity in your home.
✓ Smart locks and security apps allow you to lock and unlock your doors, no matter whether you’re home or visiting family halfway around the globe.
✓ When coupled with the use of door and window sensors, apps can alert you via text or email when someone enters your home uninvited.
✓ You can control lighting within your home from anywhere you have a connection to the Internet, making it appear to folks outside that someone is home. And these are just some of the things that Internet-enabled home automation systems and devices can do to help raise your level of personal and family security.
Today, all you need to implement a home automation system is an Internet connection and (in some cases, but not all) a device to control it, such as a smartphone, table, or computer. Of course, you have to purchase a system or appliances, but many of them that utilize your Wi-Fi network (or even your home’s power lines) are inexpensive. Another bonus with today’s home automation technology is that you can start as small as you like and build up to as large as you like. For example, with a kit such as the WeMo Switch + Motion kit from Belkin, you can begin with just a smart wall outlet and a motion detector, but can add more and more WeMo devices to your heart’s content.
Benefitting from Wireless Home Cameras
The idea of home automation is really cool and futuristic, but if that’s your only motivation to automate the things in your home, you just might be missing the forest for the trees. Sure, you can impress friends by turning on your fireplace with a tap of your iPhone, but benefits of home automation go way beyond bragging rights.
Convenience is key!
Convenience is indeed the key; otherwise, what’s truly the point? The words “home” and “automation” fit together perfectly to describe how to get things done easier, better, and faster than ever before, which equates to convenience. Want a few examples of how today’s home automation is convenient? Okay, here you go:
✓ Your teenage son calls from a friend’s cellphone and tells you he’s locked his keys and everything else he owns in the car you let him borrow. This kid is 30 minutes away — not good. Suddenly you remember you had installed a device in your car that enables you to unlock it (and even start it) from a million miles away with your smartphone. A few taps and swipes on your phone, and your son is back in the car. Convenience.
Wireless Camera
✓ The lawn needs mowing before company arrives this weekend, but you’ve been in meetings all week on the other side of the country, and now you’re stuck in the airport. Whip out your Android phone, open your robotic lawn mower’s app, and tell it to get to work. The lawn’s done before your plane even lands. Convenience.
✓ You and the family are singing “Let It Go” of Frozen fame for the 100th time on your road trip to Disney World when it dawns on you (three hours away from home) that you left the lights on and an electric heater running in the bathroom. You calmly fire up your iOS tablet, open the app for your home automation system, and turn off the lights and the outlet the heater is plugged in to. Dare I use the “C” word again? You bet I do. Convenience.
Security
Fewer things in life are more appreciated than security — in this case, knowing (or at least feeling) that you’re more safe doing things a certain way or using certain devices. Today’s Internet-based home automation technology gives one just that kind of security. Sure, home security companies have been in existence for decades now, and they are great at what they do. People also have had personal means of protection that usually work as intended, provided they’re used properly. Wireless Security Cameras have also been providing more home security for some time, although they typically were expensive to install. With today’s tech,however, you can secure your home in myriad ways you never were able to before:
✓ Wireless Alarm System provide a look into your home from anywhere you have an Internet connection.
✓ Motion detectors keep you privy to any activity in your home.
✓ Smart locks and security apps allow you to lock and unlock your doors, no matter whether you’re home or visiting family halfway around the globe.
✓ When coupled with the use of door and window sensors, apps can alert you via text or email when someone enters your home uninvited.
✓ You can control lighting within your home from anywhere you have a connection to the Internet, making it appear to folks outside that someone is home. And these are just some of the things that Internet-enabled home automation systems and devices can do to help raise your level of personal and family security.
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