Ever wondered about a life like Tony Stark of Marvel's Avengers movies. Tony
Stark aka Iron Man talks to his virtual personal assistant Jarvis to perform
his day-to-day tasks, operates his home controls, and also controls his Iron
Man suit. With the current technological advancement, we can do most of the
things that we see in the movie, excepts for controlling the Iron Man suit,
as we don’t have that.
So, today in this article we will discuss the Home Automation Basics, if
you never did or thought about controlling your home electronics products
with your voice commands, this beginner's guide is for you.
Home automation means controlling your home appliances like lightings,
music system, television, security systems, etc. through WiFi internet or
through voice commands, which will make your home a Smart Home.
Technically, home automation is part of IoT, the Internet of Things, it means when two electronic devices talks to each other without any
interference of a human, that communication is known as IoT.
An easy example of IoT will be working of a smart security system. The
smart security camera when detects any movement then it can send a
notification with a live camera feed to your mobile automatically. In this
scenario, the security camera has communicated with your mobile device
without your involvement.
The Need For Home Automation
In the current world, we have lots of electronics products in our home.
This home automation technique will help us to integrate all these
electronics products together, it can also help you to manage your
electronics device through your mobile device remotely from any parts of the
world.
So, now with home automation, there is no worry that you have switched Off
that light or fan leaving home or not, as you can control all switches on
your fingertips on your mobile devices.
Basic Requirements for Home Automation
Now if you have decided that you want some automation in your home then
let’s discuss about some basic things which you require in your home.
1) Stable WiFi Network
Any WiFi network which can connect you to the internet can be used but we
recommend to have a strong home broadband WiFi network which can ensure zero
downtime. A stable and strong WiFi network will help us so that their will
be no hindering in our home automaton commands.
2) A Smart Virtual Assistant
A smart virtual assistant home device is an important aspect in home
automation. Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple Home Pod, etc. are some of the
popular virtual assistant devices you can get for your home. We will discuss
the details of Virtual Assistant home devices in a separate post, click here
to check out.
Smart Virtual Assistant
3) Smart Lightings
The first and most basic things that you can do in your automated home is
controlling all your home lightings through voice or remotely by an app.
There are many manufacturing brands that makes smart lights nowadays. We
will discuss them in details in a separate post, click here to check
out.
Smart Lightings
4) Smart Switches
Smart switches are similar to our traditional switches but they have some
additional smart features like they can be connected to the internet and
can be controlled through mobile app or voice control.
It can also have advanced features like schedule operations and auto
day-night light controls.
Smart switches can be used in a home automation system to control your
traditional non smart devices.
We will discuss smart switches in detail in a separate post, click here
to check out.
Smart Switches
5) Smart Security Systems
A smart security system connects to the internet through your Wi-Fi
network. You can control and monitor your smart security devices using
your smartphone or a web app. Smart systems generally include some
security cameras, door and window sensors, a motion detector
devices.
We will discuss smart security systems in detail in a separate post,
click here to check out.
Smart Security Systems
6) Smart Appliances
Nowadays many appliances are coming into the market which can connect
directly to your smart home network and can interact with your other smart
home devices. Few examples of such smart appliances are Smart Televisions,
Smart Refrigerators, Smart Coffee Makers, Smart Weighing Scales, Smart
Robotic Vacuum Cleaners, etc.
We will discuss smart appliances in detail in a separate post, click here
to check out.
Smart Appliances
Conclusion
If you have read all the related posts of this article then you can start
creating your smart home on your own.
You can start with the first 3 requirements of this post and slowly as
per your need you can add more smart devices.
Hope you have liked this post and could have learned some basics of
Home Automation.
0 Comments