Home automation is a trend that is taking the world by storm. Such a superb concept that gives you access of so many happenings and devices in your home with just a single click on your mobile phone, regardless of how far you are from your home. Sounds astounding, isn’t it? Let us understand this futuristic concept in detail so you could derive maximum of its advantage.
How home automation works
A system that enables you to have full control over systems like thermostats, door locks, sprinkler systems, lighting, and many more with the help of a mobile device. The mobile device works like a remote control that controls all the systems at home while you being out anywhere in the world.
We can say it is like an internet of things, wherein every gadget or system in your home gets an IP address so that you could monitor and control it via remote control. These systems offer you tension free vacations, as you can go out and enjoy your vacations without worrying about home security.
Home automation has developed into such a magnificent and impressive network only recently, as some time back such systems were either restricted to VIP usage owing to its pricey nature, or they only used to cover two or three features like lighting, heating-cooling, and door locking that it could control.
Home automation controls almost every single gadget and even those small light switches in your home. In case you forget switching off the light in your kitchen, or the tap in your garden while leaving for office in the morning, no need to go back to turn them off, as you could do the same with the help of your Smartphone.
Essential components of home automation
Once you know how home automation works, you must also know what all you can add to the list of things you would like to monitor and control with this system. Usually, simple binary devices are the ones that home automation system connects and controls. Binary devices are the ones that work on the principle of “On-Off” or “Open-Close.” This way you can connect lighting, taps, electronic locks, motion sensors, cameras, thermostats, fir detector, humidifier, washing machine, sprinkler, or any other binary device you have in your home.
How home automation helps you save money
A home automation system can help you save money, and can make your home green in the following ways:
Saves electricity
The motion sensors switch on the lights when someone enters home, and the lights switch off when there is nobody in the room. In a rush if you happen to leave some of the lights switched on at home, you can switch them off without coming back to home.
Water conservation
The sprinkler systems installed in gardens keep on sprinkling and so much of water goes waste. The sprinklers that come under the modern home automation systems are the timed ones that do not waste water, and turn off automatically after sprinkling for quite some time, thus, enabling water conservation at home.
The same goes for the taps and showers installed in kitchen and bathrooms. With the help of motion sensors attached to them, they turn off as soon as you take off your hands away from the tap.
Home automation systems work to connect all smart gadgets and appliances in your home so that your everyday life becomes convenient and comfortable. They also are energy efficient, so they help increase the energy quotient of your home and save your money.
