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The Most Prominent Innovative Smart Home Ideas and Trends
Summary Outline:
Smart technology is constantly evolving so much that it has started to help people live their lives comfortably and create new ways to keep our homes easier to control.
With the industry evolving rapidly, it can take much work to be on top of the trends. Hence, we have outlined and spoken to the experts to bring you the best new innovative home trends for the year ahead.
Now that you have the basics covered and are looking to make your home a smart home by installing EV chargers, solar power and battery storage to help manage the spiraling energy costs. Intelligent home security brands now sell affordable wall-mounted solar panels for charging cameras, lights and sensors.
Heres is a review of innovative smart home ideas alone with resource information to build the home of the future:
- 1: creating a future home
- side note: first thing, you need high-speed connectivity
- side note:Voice control really can make life easier
- 2: automating HVAC and utilities
- side note: having good air quality
- side note: reduce utility costs
- 3: smart home lighting
- side notes: More About LED bulbs and Automated Lighting
- side notes: Secure Your Home With Tech
- 4: enjoy music everywhere
- side note: other smart home entertainment
- 5: home automation features
- side notes: Remote Control Curtains and Blinds
- side notes: smart mirrors for the bathroom
- conclusion
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1st:Creating a Future Home:
What will a future home look like? It’s a home where everything is connected and managed by Internet of Things (IoT) through a central hub that is connected to the cloud. View the hub as the home command center and via IoT, this command center can using a mesh network –
- turn on/off and schedule home lighting and other appliances
- control and monitor HVAC needs
- analyze home energy production from solar, wind and other home energy devices including battery storage and grid exchanges
- provide on-demand home entertainment and activities
- manage smart home appliances, robotics, and features that provide needs and comfort for the family – and which these smart appliances are automatically updated by the manufacture though the cloud and IoT
- secure the home with systems that can be monitored and recorded
- intake outside appointments and scheduling via the cloud from doctors, dentists, and other service providers
- connect all family mobile devices for communication, scheduling, and tracking usage based on family principles.
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- The central hub via IoT will be connected to the cloud where any household need can be monitored, controlled, and notified by family members’ mobile device no matter where they may be located.
- The cloud will also function as a hub where online orders, doctor or dentist appointments, service appointments, manufacturer upgrades, and other communications can be relayed from the cloud to the IoT home hub and disseminated to where it needs to go.
- This is what a future home will look like. But for now, the goal is to simulate a future home by incorporating some of the ideas that can be controlled via IoT (Internet of Things). Let’s get started!
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Your Home Wi-Fi Might Need An Upgrade or Replacement:
There’s nothing special about Wi-Fi routers, but you won’t get the best from your gadgets without a robust and reliable connection across your entire home. As crazy as it seems, your internet provider should offer affordable Wi-Fi extenders for boosting the signal around your home.
But investing in a mesh-style system could be the best solution, especially for a large house full of constantly online streamers. And for the ones who want to ensure a strong signal throughout as it provides maximum speed for almost 200 connected products.
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resources: High Speed InternetAbout High Speed Internet illustration – types of internet connections information – understanding internet speeds information – future of internet information Making Connections illustration – how to setup internet information – how design home network information Connection Internet youtube – home networking 101 youtube WiFi Connections
How WiFi Router Works illustration – WiFi automation diagram illustration – Wifi extenders diagram illustration How Setup WiFi at Home information – WiFi vs Ethernet information – setup wireless network information – mesh networking information What if a WIFI Router youtube – mesh WiFi explained youtube – upgrade weak WiFi signal youtube – Wifi and bluetooth youtube Future Home Hub
Future Home Hub (resource information) IoT Hub illustration – command center illustration – diagram illustration – cloud computing illustration What is IoT Hub information – what is a home network information – what is cloud computing information How IoT Hub Works youtube – IoT hub beginners guide youtube – connecting IoT to cloud youtube – how to use cloud computing youtube -
Voice Control Really Can Make Life Easier:
What is voice control, and how it makes life easier? It is one of the questions that might have come to your mind. The answer is simple. Smart speakers in the forms of Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri have been the best example of it.
They can stream music, answer your queries, read the news, narrate books and video call friends and family without needing to reach for your phone.
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The rising trend of voice control means that now there are more compatible products, from sound bars, laptops, TVs and even cars. It means you can buy better quality speakers with the same smart functionality.
These voice-control components will become a major part of future homes. Where voice commands are tagged by the central hub and can be use used to order food, schedule appointments, and to be notified on incoming communication that is tagged and vital.
resources: Home AI-AssistantsHome AI-Assistants illustration – AI assistant diagram information Best AI Assistants information – how to use AI assistants information – how setup google home information – how setup amazon echo information Build Custom AI Assistant youtube – local voice control youtube AI Home Assistants
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2nd:Automating HVAC and Utilities:
HVAC stands for heating-ventilation-air conditioning – it is what makes home living comfortable – and it is the most expensive utility cost that the home consumes.
- HVAC units heats and cools our home during seasonal needs, it heats our water for bathing, showing, and cleaning, and it circulates the air through the house to provide maximum comfort.
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- Making your home smart is not only promoting luxury. Instead, it means we’re all looking for ways to keep bills manageable. And there are plenty of quick tips for saving energy, including installing smart thermostats.
- Doing so allows you to set and control the room temperature automatically; or when you are away from the house to reduce home heating/cooling costs. And the future holds that these systems, when connected to IoT, will use weather forecasts to set temperatures to maximize energy savings.
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Having Good Air Quality:
Is air purification another area to work on when introducing smart tech? Breathing clean, fresh air is important for our overall health. This is especially true for households living in urban and subrange areas where air pollution, allergens and other particles that can enter into the home.
True, you could keep the windows and doors tightly closed. But that keeps the air inside stale and humid. It’s important to have a air ventilation system that intakes air from the outside, circulates it through a filtration system, and then vents it outside along with damp air from showers, washers and cooking.
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So the smart answer is to have air purification systems – either a whole ventilation systems and/or the use of air purification units. The most upgraded air purifiers can also detect particulate matter and adjust the power accordingly.
Another smart option is the installation of smart ceiling fans in bedrooms and other key areas of the home. Ceiling fans connected to smart outlets can operated automatically based on temperature and other sensors that require the increase or decrease of air flow.
Ceiling fans can also help keep the home cool in the summer and warmer in the winter by shifting their spin cycle all nicely controlled by smart technology.
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Reduce Utility Costs:
The best way to reduce home utility costs – other than conservation – is to produce your own energy to power your home. Having home solar panels on the roof or in the garden can generate electricity that can be use to power electrical needs and/or sold to the utility grid for credits against your home electrical use.
Future homes will become energy production homes with:
- solar panels on roof and in other sunny locations
- home geothermal systems that taps energy from underground: see diagram
- wind turbines
- solar water heaters
- energy efficients windows and doors view examples
- and interior sensors and monitors connected to IoT to manage home utility use.
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3rd:Smart Lighting:
Although app-controlled light bulbs seem like an expensive folly, they’re undoubtedly versatile. They help improve security, transform bedtimes and boost your mood.
- Smart lights can be on duty as your security and mimic people’s actions at home even when they’re not.
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- Color-changing bulbs help energize you in the morning or relax in the evening. Set your lights to dim as you sleep and brighten them to wake you gently. You can ensure a calm end and gently start any day.
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More About LED and Automated Lighting:
Smart LED light bulbs allow you to control the the type of lighting that sets the mood that you need for work, sleep, and enjoying time with others. But that requires you to work with individual bulbs if you want to turn them on or off.
A better approach is to install smart light switches and sockets – all connected to voice commands. You can then use voice – or your mobile devise – to turn on/off any lighting throughout the house and garden.
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Another advantage for switching to LEDs for your home and garden lighting is the cost savings. LED light bulbs reduce electrical costs by 75% or more over standard incandescent light bulbs; and 40% less energy use than CFLs. Plus LEDs don’t release much heat like the other two bulbs; thus reducing your heating costs during the summer.
LEDs light bulbs also have a longer shelf life – meaning, you will not need to replace a LED after many hours of use. With that said, they are less expensive in terms of life use than other light bulbs.
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Secure Your Home With Tech:
Home security was more about having an expensive fitted alarm system and CCTV cameras. However, it no longer is. Thankfully intelligent home security systems are more about now alarms, sensors, and cameras syncing with your smartphones. They will notify you of any activity at home and in its territories.
The new intelligent doorbells can tell you about a visitor when they approach, even if they haven’t ring the bells, and will save photos and videos as evidence.
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A safe home is a more valued home in terms of design and automation. That is what makes future home so appealing – the feeling of your home being safe and monitored regardless if you are in the home or away on business or vacation.
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4th:Enjoy Music Everywhere:
We’ve fallen in love with music streaming, playing high-quality music over Wi-Fi to enjoy your favorite playlist in the kitchen or living room and a nighttime mix in the bedroom.
- You can stream music wirelessly around the house from a traditional analogue turntable. Add in Alexa and Google Assistant compatibility; you don’t need to get your smartphone out. Just ask, and your virtual DJ will do the rest.
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- However, the most crucial factor here is that you can use better-quality speakers. Being a die hard music fan, you can enjoy the best quality audio with smart app control.
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Other Smart Home Entertainment:
Technology has evolved nicely from the days when the family enjoyed a movie by visiting a CD-movie rental store. We can now view just about any movie and series via streaming to our smart TV. No need to pick-up and return movies. You simply stream and watch your movie as often and when you want in the convenience of your home.
Smart TVs can can also be connected to IoT, which allows you to watch entertainment on your TV, desktop monitor, or mobile device simultaneously. Plus the TV can be connected to your home assistant and with a voice command look up a recipe, make an order, watch a video concert, and perform any other task via the internet.
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5th:Home Automation Features:
We have summarized above the many home automation features that can be added to your home to make life easier and more manageable. These features over time will evolve into a future design that brings the home and the outside world together for entertainment, work, services, and other functions via a home IoT network.
- Not only will this investment into home automation make live easier, it will also increase the value of your home. The younger generation, who are looking to buy, expect to have home automation features. So anyhome that is neatly networked for automation is a valuable proposition for the younger generation.
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- Other home automation features that can be connected to your home IoT and voice command include:
- operating different types of robotics for cleaning and servicing
- locking and unlocking entrance doors to the home
- scheduling your garden irrigation and lighting needs
- managing garage opening and access
- adjust home lighting based on the amount of natural lighting
- opening and closing window blinds: note below
- add voice controls at your mirror as you get ready for the day: note below
- plus more varying features to manage home life: view article: 78 home automation ideas
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Remote Control Curtains and Blinds:
With the latest technologies, fancy houses and hotels have had remote control curtains and blinds for years. However, with better battery technology and intelligent wireless control, it’s now convenient and economical to cherish the luxury lifestyle at home.
They have a wide range of plug-and-play gadgets for opening and closing curtains and blinds by using your smartphone with one click. Now, you can set timers for dawn and dusk, improving sleep habits and enhancing your home security while you’re away!
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Do you know that automated blinds help with energy efficiency as they can be set to close when the sun sets and the temperature starts to drop, maximizing heat retention? And it likewise works in reverse during hot summer days to close the blinds or curtains during the day to keep the inside from heating up – opening back up when the sun sets to let the cool air outside penetrate in.
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Smart Mirrors:
What can you do with a smart mirror in the main bathroom? Well, the first thing is that you can use the mirror to get ready in the morning. And as you get ready, you can use your voice command to:
- view the weather forecast for the day
- note the latest commute time and alternative routing
- hear the latest news and events
- listen to some music to get the day started
- search online for a particular cosmetic use
- send a command to turn on/off appliances or lights
- forward a message, reminder, task, or other to a family member’s mobile device
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You might think that a smart mirror is a bit too much automation. But consider how much time you spend in front of the mirror, especially in the morning hours when so many decisions need to be made. One simple command as you prep for the day can answer many morning questions before walking out the door to begin your day.
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Conclusion
In a nutshell, if there has been one problem with innovative home technology, it’s that not all devices like talking to each other. Matter aims to change that by offering cross-party compatibility across many leading innovative home brands.
- The result should mean Hue lighting, Samsung SmartThings, Ikea, Amazon, Google and Apple will all work seamlessly together.
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