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How Smart Home Devices Will Play a Large Part in Your FutureHere are 4 areas where smart devices in the home will have a huge impact.
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When your home is more efficient you and your family will be too.
“ The ability to make adjustments on the fly means you can directly impact your monthly energy bill.”
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Just a decade ago, the idea we could control our home’s climate with a single thermostat that could also learn our day-to-day habits to maximize our energy use was the thing of science fiction. Today, gadgets like smart thermostats make smart home climate control not just doable, but a mainstream option for energy-savvy homeowners. The smart home industry shows no signs of slowing down either; and according to Gartner, 8.4 billion connected tools were projected to be in use by 2017, up 31 percent from 2016. With that many connected devices flooding the market, how will our connected devices play a role in how we live our lives at home?
The next wave of smart home adoption and mainstream use points to areas like home security automation and sharing data to simplify our lives. The question is how will we adapt to smart home technology and use it to our advantage. Here’s what the future holds for homeowners.
Enhanced Security
Today's home security systems give us the power to monitor our home’s security in real time. For instance, Lorex Technology’s security systems and Nest Cam allow remote viewing from their app, giving users control to see their homes and learn the daily habits of their neighborhoods, mail carriers and package deliveries right from their smartphones. Those enhancements will open the door for machine learning and automation, as security systems will learn our habits and make adjustments to enhance security capabilities.
Optimize Your Energy Use
Our homes often burn through valuable energy without knowing where the issue is. Whether it’s an old fridge depleting your energy efficiency or an outdated HVAC, we can use connected devices to monitor and optimize our energy use. Curb Energy and Sense are monitoring device that work with your circuit-breaker panel to give you a look at real-time energy consumption data for your entire home. When you see abnormal patterns in energy use, you can track down the culprit to an appliance or see which times of day use the most energy and make adjustments. The ability to make adjustments on the fly means you can directly impact your monthly energy bill.
Share Your Data
The ability for our home’s connected devices to share data and simplify our lives will revolutionize how we do everything from addressing home repairs to ordering groceries. Smart refrigerators will be able to learn what groceries we have and what we don’t by giving us a real-time image of what’s going on, whether we’re in the next room or at the grocery store. Or better yet, the future of connected refrigerators will learn what we’re out of and what we need and order groceries for us. A similar concept can apply towards the future of our appliance repairs. When a connected dishwasher stops working, it could download its latest software automatically to troubleshoot or schedule a repair.
Control Your Devices in One Place
With so many billions of smart gadgets and connected devices coming to our homes, we need a way to manage them in one place to use them efficiently. Whether we want to make adjustments to our thermostat, lighting or order supplies, a connected hub like Amazon Echo or Apple's HomePod can help do it for us. Better yet, a smart assistant or hub can ultimately integrate as a member of the family that knows our favorite dinnertime playlists, can read a story or shares the weather before we head out for a day of play.
The future of connected devices is already here with more gadgets and smart home advancements changing the way we live. The trick is learning how to maximize it to our advantage to simplify our day-to-day lives. Start with the areas of your home that will make the most impact on security to reducing your energy costs and add in the smart devices that make your life easier.
Susan Finch is a freelance writer living in Atlanta, and loves helping businesses improve their bottom line with compelling copy that sparks action. When she's not writing, she's traveling with her family and plotting her next creative pursuit.
The next wave of smart home adoption and mainstream use points to areas like home security automation and sharing data to simplify our lives. The question is how will we adapt to smart home technology and use it to our advantage. Here’s what the future holds for homeowners.
Enhanced Security
Today's home security systems give us the power to monitor our home’s security in real time. For instance, Lorex Technology’s security systems and Nest Cam allow remote viewing from their app, giving users control to see their homes and learn the daily habits of their neighborhoods, mail carriers and package deliveries right from their smartphones. Those enhancements will open the door for machine learning and automation, as security systems will learn our habits and make adjustments to enhance security capabilities.
Optimize Your Energy Use
Our homes often burn through valuable energy without knowing where the issue is. Whether it’s an old fridge depleting your energy efficiency or an outdated HVAC, we can use connected devices to monitor and optimize our energy use. Curb Energy and Sense are monitoring device that work with your circuit-breaker panel to give you a look at real-time energy consumption data for your entire home. When you see abnormal patterns in energy use, you can track down the culprit to an appliance or see which times of day use the most energy and make adjustments. The ability to make adjustments on the fly means you can directly impact your monthly energy bill.
Share Your Data
The ability for our home’s connected devices to share data and simplify our lives will revolutionize how we do everything from addressing home repairs to ordering groceries. Smart refrigerators will be able to learn what groceries we have and what we don’t by giving us a real-time image of what’s going on, whether we’re in the next room or at the grocery store. Or better yet, the future of connected refrigerators will learn what we’re out of and what we need and order groceries for us. A similar concept can apply towards the future of our appliance repairs. When a connected dishwasher stops working, it could download its latest software automatically to troubleshoot or schedule a repair.
Control Your Devices in One Place
With so many billions of smart gadgets and connected devices coming to our homes, we need a way to manage them in one place to use them efficiently. Whether we want to make adjustments to our thermostat, lighting or order supplies, a connected hub like Amazon Echo or Apple's HomePod can help do it for us. Better yet, a smart assistant or hub can ultimately integrate as a member of the family that knows our favorite dinnertime playlists, can read a story or shares the weather before we head out for a day of play.
The future of connected devices is already here with more gadgets and smart home advancements changing the way we live. The trick is learning how to maximize it to our advantage to simplify our day-to-day lives. Start with the areas of your home that will make the most impact on security to reducing your energy costs and add in the smart devices that make your life easier.
Susan Finch is a freelance writer living in Atlanta, and loves helping businesses improve their bottom line with compelling copy that sparks action. When she's not writing, she's traveling with her family and plotting her next creative pursuit.
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