3. What is smart home
Smart Home technology intelligently gives you ultimate
control over your home by automating the lighting system,
dimming, blinds, electrical appliances, audio and security
systems.
Smart homes connect all the devices and appliances in your
home so they can communicate with each other and with you.
4. How does it works
Anything in your home that uses electricity can be put on the home
network and at your command. Whether you give that command by
voice, remote control or computer, the home reacts.
Smart homes work with fairly simple systems: receivers and
transmitters
Receivers detect a certain signal from the transmitter, that issues a
command.
5. Why smart home: the benefits
Smart Home is applicable in various aspect
of our home and environment to suite our
different preferences.
Comfort or Ease of control
Entertainment
Security
convenience at all times,
lifestyle personalisation and
User friendly
6. Why Smart Home: Comfort/Ease of
Control
Smart Home offers ease of controlling devices around the home. This
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(s);
Automatic shut down of appliance when not in use;
Automatic setting and maintenance of right temperature for each
room;
Automatically adjust/ regulate light intensity based on room
luminosity.
7. 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 house.
Easy Control
Parental control feature 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.
8. Why Smart Home: Security
Security Camera
Controlled motion sensitive cameras which allows for observation of activities
Capture and record video surveillance.
Emergency
Initiate emergency alarm or audible intruder alert
Activate sprinkler and fire extinguishing system in case fire emergency
Automatic de-activation of electric systems and activate emergency light
Controlled Access
Granting access using finger print, eye or face recognition
The System informs the user if a visitor is at the door; the owner can then grant or deny
access
9. 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
10. Conclusion
Keeping in mind that technology is rapidly changing, it is
important to recognize how technology is changing how we
function within our households.
The cost of smart home technologies is really high. In a
middle or lower class families are can’t afford this technology.
The minimum cost is $1000. also cost is depends on how
‘Smart’ you really want.
The smart home technology is not available in India. But it will
come in near future.
