Smart home

1. WHAT IS SMART HOME?
It is one of the applications of smart technologies within our
home, in creating a comfortable home and an effective lifecycle.
It improves automation control and monitoring of household
devices and connect via standard means of communication for its
operation.

2. Features of Smart Home
• Few of the features include but limited to:
• Home security system
• Control Exterior and Interior Lighting
• Automatic window and curtain
• Automatic Garage Door
• Distributed entertainment System
• Intercom/ Telephony System
• Home Energy management system

3. WHY SMART HOME?
• Smart Home is application in various aspects of
our home and environment to suite our different
preferences.
• Comfort or Easy of control
• Entertainment
• Security
• Convenience at all times
• Lifestyle personalisation
• User friendly

4. Why Smart Home: Comfort/Ease of
control
• Smart home offers ease of controlling devices around the
home . The is one of its outstanding feature.
• These features offers automation and remote control of
devices around the home from any location within such as:
• Automatic control of garage door and gate
• Automatic shut down of appliance when not in use
• Automatic setting and maintanance of right temperature
for each room
• Automatically adjust/regulate light intensity based on room
luminousity.

5. WHY SMART HOME: Entertainment
• Smart home offers multi room entertainment network which enables
listening of audio music and watching of movies from any part in the
home.
Easy Control
Parental control features on television channels for children to watch only
certain programmes.
Digital Access
Access favourite CD’s , DVD’s from any music system and television around
the home
Digital Storage
System automatically stores most played music based on number of play

6. WHY SMART HOME: Security
Security Camera
• Controlled motion sensitives cameras which allows for observation
of activities.
• Capture and record video surveillance.
Emergency
Initiative emergency alarm or audible intruder alert
Activate sprinkler and fire extinguishing system in case fire
emergency.
Automatic de-activation of electric systems and active emergency
light.
Controller Access
Granting access using fingerprint , eye or face recognition
The System informs the user if a visitor is at the door; the owner can
then grant or deny access.

7. WHY SMART HOME: Health
• SMART homes offers benefits for the disabled
and elderly persons in the various ways:
• Monitory system
• Automated alarm systems directly connected
to hospitals in cases of incidents like a fall or
collapse
• Alert systems for the notification on
prescribed medications

8. WHY Smart Home: Health
• SMART homes offers benefits for the disabled
and elderly persons in the various ways:
• Monitory systems
• Automated alarm systems directly connected
to hospitals in cases of incidents like a fall or
collapse
• Alert systems for the notification on
prescribed medications.

9. EXAMPLES OF CURRENT PRODUCTS
• Alexa
• Google Assistant
• Wink hub 2
• Samsung Smarthing Hub
• Google Thermostat

10. BENEFITS
• Managing all of the home devices from one
place.
• Flexibility of new devices and appliances.
• Maximizing home security.
• Remote control of human functions.
• Home management insights.

11. CHALLENGES AND FUTURE
• Privacy and data protection
• Cost of Implementation
• More vulnerabilities in overall system.
• Complexity in multiple functionality.
Smart home is the most emerging technology
technology growing rapidly at a competitive rate
in the technological world enhancing home
security, entertainment, comfort health.

12. DRAWBACK
• Security , one of the main benefits of a Smart
Home , is potentially now vulnerable in a new
context.
• As an inherit risk of the Internet of things ,
data collection by devices connected to the
internet means this data is now stored online.