The Future is Smart Homes

Smart homes are the future. Everyone loves the things you can get without much effort. The web and smart home technologies are life-changing for every person around the world and will continue making a difference in the future.

What are Smart Homes?

You may be wondering, what is a smart home? A smart home is a house that has, appliances, such as lighting, heating, air conditioning, TVs, computers, entertainment that are capable of communicating. In addition, they can communicate with one another and be controlled remotely or by a time schedule. Some examples of these smart home technologies are smart thermostats that are connected to your personal Wi-Fi and allow the user to schedule, monitor, and control the temperature. Another example is smart locks that can grant or deny any visitors at the command of the user. If the user comes near the smart lock it can unlock the door for them. The devices are so smart that they begin learning the user’s comforts and behaviors and adjusts to them automatically.

Cost of Basic Smart Homes

Now a day’s cost is the first thing that comes to a person’s head when trying to figure out whether they should purchase something or not. The prices vary depending on what you purchase to create a smart home. If you want a fully smart home obviously the pricing would be higher than having just a smart thermostat and some lighting. A fully smart home can cost up to $12,000, this is for the basic home automation. But depending on wiring in your house it can lower the price or increase it. Sometimes if you want things to work easier for yourself or the family you have to spend a little more to achieve that. That is what a lot of people decide to do because they want systems that they can easily control from cellphones. If you forget to turn something off or lock your doors, you can pull out your phone and complete it from there.

Disadvantages of Smart Homes

Sometimes there is information that you wish you would have never been told or things you wish you would have never seen and if you could you would take it back. The web is a source that sometimes gives people the information they weren’t seeking and access to things they wish they would have never had access to. This can be a disadvantage of the web. Searching for something you wish to seek can sometimes not come up with the answers you are wishing to find and because of this, you are still wondering what the answer is to whatever you were wondering. A huge disadvantage is that you look up something and get an answer that is not the truth but you don’t realize it is not the truth. Sometimes people post things on the web and it is just something they believe and know the truth of the matter.

– Cost

A Key disadvantage of owning a smart home is the money you have to spend in order to own one. Some products can be fairly spendy for some homeowners.  If you don’t have WIFI this can cause a problem with owning the products because they are reliant on WIFI to function. For some people owning a phone can be difficult because of the learning curve of the product and this can be the same for a smart home. You have to learn how to use smart homes so it can be effective and for some people, this can be very difficult. The main worry that people have is that because the devices are connected through the WIFI they can be hacked into and there have been cases of this occur so you have to be careful about certain brands and taking every precaution for this to not occur.

Alexa and Google Home

The web and smart homework hand in hand with one another. The web and smart home are very helpful everyday tools. Some things that run in a smart home pull information off of the internet such as the Alexa which pulls information such as the weather or how to quickly make your favorite recipe off of the internet so that you don’t have to go manually type it out yourself in Google search. Like mentioned earlier the web “makes use of hypertext to access the various forms of information available on the world’s different networks.” So, without the web, smart home devices wouldn’t be able to draw information to feedback to you.

The web brings smart home technology to life and that is what makes knowledge so accessible. Smart home technology draws information from the webs resources of collections, documents, and other resources and makes them accessible to you instantaneously. Also, such devices will push voice searches to become more prominent as web technology becomes more advanced and AI more “intelligent”.

Some facts about Smart Homes

Discovering new knowledge about smart devices and the web is not necessarily something super important but more just along the lines of fun to know. The web and smart home have very interesting facts about them that you most likely never knew. Smart homes have been something that has been around for a long time. A lot of times people believe that smart home has been created just recently but smart homes have been around for a long time just not in the way people may have realized. For example, we have garage doors, and how about thermostats before there were none. Smart homes aren’t the only ones with interesting facts, the web has them as well. “The first website to ever go online was on August 6, 1991”. “There are more devices connected to the Web than living human beings.” That is insane to think about with all humans alive devices are still greater.

Garage Doors

If you’re considering adding Smart Technology to your home, you should take into consideration the garage door. They say the garage door is the new front door. If that’s true for a lot of us, then there are a few ways to do this fairly inexpensively. 

The most inexpensive way to do this is to upgrade your current garage door Opener with Smart  Technology. This is assuming that your current Opener is in good working condition. The other option would be to purchase a new Opener that has Smart Technology already built-in. The latter option can, in some cases, save you money in the long run.

So, let’s say you have an Opener that looks so old that it could be featured on American Pickers. But it’s still hanging in there and is getting the garage door up and down, no problem. And your kinda attached to it thinking that one of those team members from American Pickers might stop by one day and offer you some pretty good money for it. Well, no problem; you can add a MyQ Hub to most Openers for around $30. Now you have a smart Garage Door that can be controlled and monitored through an App on your smartphone. 

But, if you would rather save your $30 and use that to invest in a new Opener that has been manufactured with MyQ technology built-in, that might be the better option for you. Most Openers manufactured these days will already have Smart Technology built-in and so the MyQ Hub is not necessary. And there are a vast array of options that are offered along with the Smart Technology: Such as cameras, LED lights, and utility variations. A good quality Opener integrated with MyQ Technology can be purchased starting at around $130 fresh from the factory, not bad.

If you’re unsure, it always makes sense to reach out and ask a garage door specialist.

Future of Smart Homes

In the future, our smart homes will be able to connect to everything in the home. Not only that but in the future, they are going to create ovens that can sense what the food needs to be cooked to be perfect and automatically do that. They also are looking to create

“Smart refrigerators will help reduce waste by letting you know when the carrots in your fridge are about to go bad and offer up several recipes for them to boot.” Not only that but, “In just a few months’ time you’ll be able to install the FridgeCam in your fridge freezer. Log in to the camera from wherever you are in the world via your smartphone to see if it’s time to restock your grocery supplies.”

Those are just a few things for the kitchen, for the bathroom, you can have a shower or bath that with start with the push of a button from your smartphone which then will, “induce relaxed brain waves, while nose-geared gadgets like Olfinity will let you program and control your own aromatherapy session from your iPhone while you soak.” All of these things will turn our future into something we never imagined.

Summary

In our day, and age we have been blessed extremely with the opportunity to have access to tools that make our lives much easier. Examples of what makes our lives easier on a day-to-day basis are the web and smart homes. Both of these we have access to at the tips of our fingers and it truly can transform a life. From having the ability to search for something and receive immediate answers to having a home that you feel safe in and can access from anywhere around the world.