Selection Criteria of Smart Home System

Selection of Smart Home Components 

One of the main things to think about when building a smart home system is ‘how can we best use technology to improve our daily home lives? If you keep this as the central question when choosing new home automation technologies in your home, you’ll be able to get by with the best smart home system; making your life better/easier.4 Major Smart Home Technology User Needs

When analyzing the average homeowner, there are 4 main user needs for smart home technologies:

✅ To secure your home: eg. security systems

✅ To create the best (most personalized) environment: eg. heating and lighting systems

✅ To enhance home entertainment: eg. Music/Sound/Entertainment System

✅ To automate small but important daily tasks that you may forget: eg. Garden watering systems and automated buy/shop orders.

Smart Home automation

The correct order of these reflects the priority/importance level of each of these use-cases for homeowners i.e. security is arguably the most important use of smart home technology, and everyday task automation is the least important.

Home Security

Home Security is at the top of most people’s list when it comes to smart home systems. Your home is your castle, and therefore it is important that you do your best to protect your home – whether it is from intruders, the risk of a fire or even water damage (most of the damage/insurance claims). one of the big reasons).Following is a quick overview of the various options you have in building a complete smart home security system:

• • • ✅ Burglar Alarm System
    • ✅ Fire/Smoke Detection System
    • ✅ Leak Detection
    • ✅ Power cut detection
    • ✅ Alarm and Security Monitoring
    • ✅ CCTV Surveillance 
    • ✅ Access Control and Smart Lock
    • ✅ Lighting (exterior and interior)
    • ✅ Equipment Tracking

Home environment control

Controlling the internal environment of a home is a basic homeowner’s need. Smart technologies allow you to control environmental factors at Evo level, allowing you to create areas at your home to meet the specific needs of this area.

Heating: Technologies give you the ability to set different heating temperatures in different rooms.

Lights: Technologies like Smart Switch and Bulb that allow you to pre-program lighting moods, control lighting remotely through an app, and set rules.

Daily task automation

People’s lives are becoming increasingly hectic, and the more repetitive tasks that can be automated, the better – leaving you with more enjoyable/rewarding tasks to do. Examples of daily tasks that can be easily automated include:

Irrigation / Irrigation System: Set smart rules to water your garden automatically.

Garage door opener: Remotely control your garage door via your mobile phone.

Food Order/Shopping/Delivery to Store: Order essentials home, when they are sold out (or about to expire).

Home Entertainment systems

Home entertainment equipment has improved greatly over the years, with most homes now having ‘professional grade’ sound and TV systems. Technology is always improving entertainment systems, with a focus on ‘connected entertainment’ over the years, that is, connecting all the different entertainment devices and sources.

Music/household sound systems: Create zones throughout your home, so you can play music from a single input source (or multiple input sources) to different areas (this can be rooms or groups of rooms).

Video entertainment sharing: The biggest trend right now is the ability to share content across screens and devices, meaning you can watch your favorite Netflix series, amazon Prime in the comfort of your life, on your iPad, or on the go. iPhone – without missing a second of the action. There are varying levels of sophistication to this type of content synchronization and sharing, from Google’s Chromecast to Sky Q – Amazon and Apple are also getting in on the act (along with the Amazon Fire Stick and Apple TV etc.).

Things to consider when designing a smart home system

As well as mapping daily and occasional activities around the home, other factors to consider when designing a smart home system include:

Technological compatibility: An increasing number of different smart home technologies are available on the market, so they are necessary- or at least the ones you want/need to play together can do so. The largest common communication protocol shared between most wireless smart home devices is called Z-Wave – so if you’re buying a wireless smart home device, you should check whether it’s part of the Z-Wave alliance or Z-Wave. Wave compatible.

Number of Apps vs. Single App: Each smart home device now comes with its own app, but you should consider whether you want to use one app to control your smart home device – or specific Want to use specific app for devices. Ways around this are using a single all-in-one smart home app like Wink or sharing apps via IFTTT (a smart home recipe tool you can use to set up rules/recipes between devices). adding up.

Security/Hacking Risk of Technology: Smart home devices have a history of being vulnerable in terms of security – primarily due to a lack of care around passwords, and (in some cases) technology providers without sufficient-adequate security features. Failed to build.

Future-Proofing: Make sure your smart home automation system is future-proofed link in all of the above points, especially ensuring that it is compatible/runs well with the wider smart home ecosystem. Like the mobile phone space dominated by Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, it is likely that smart home devices will be anchored towards some standardized system/operating system.

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