The following are the most common questions we ask ourselves right after we leave our house: “Did I lock the door properly?” Did I left the stove open?” “Did I left the air condition on?” These questions bother us so much that we even drive back to our house and check if everything is okay. Do you ever wonder how easier your life would be if you can just check your house right where you are without going back?
That idea is now possible thanks to modern technology. We now have the power to see and control our house wherever and whenever we are.
WHAT ARE SMART HOMES?
Smart homes or home automation connects your property to your tablets, smart phones, or laptops through the use of different gadgets. With just a simple voice command or a tap of your finger to your device, you can now control whatever it is that’s inside your house. Left your air condition on? Just simply command the gadget to turn off and voila, it’s now closed! Worried for your child’s safety? You can simply watch your children through a camera. Everything that’s inside your house in connected through the internet and can be controlled by your own gadgets.
It sounds like something that came out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s a reality that everyone can enjoy right now. Home automation is now widely use in several commercial buildings and residential properties in the Philippines.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
There are two ways in which smart homes work. The first one is automation. Automation refers to the ability of the program to schedule or to monitor your house’s devices. This includes time related commands. For example, you want to turn off all the lights in your house at exactly 10:00 PM. The automation system makes this possible. Learning how automaton works can do magic to your life.
The second factor is the remote control. Using any Internet-connected device, you can easily control and monitor the things in your house. Through the help of monitoring apps, you can check when each of your appliances are used, what time the lights turned on and off, and check who are the ones who entered your property.
THE BENEFITS
Home automation has many benefits. Here are some of them:
1. Security: The main reason why smart homes are popular is because it allows you to make sure that your property is guarded 24/7. Crime rates are not getting lower and so it is everyone’s priority to make sure that the whole family is safe. Smart homes allow you to do that whenever and wherever you are.
2. Remote access: Who doesn’t want to have control of their house even if their away? Though home automation everything inside your home is unified and you no longer have to worry about the gas being on when you go away for a quick weekend getaway.
3. Efficiency: As soon as you learn how to sync in home automation to your lifestyle, it will right away make your life easier and better. You can schedule when the coffee maker will turn on just right before you drink your first cup of coffee. You can learn why your electric bills turned out that way thanks to the apps included in the automation.
4. Saves energy: Smart homes can also help you save precious energy. Since you’re already using a high-end type of technology, it manages to cut-down human error that often inflate energy bills. You can control how much you spend on your appliances and other energy-inducing systems thanks to automation.
5. Saves money: Contrary to popular belief, smart homes are not that expensive. When you cut down your energy you also deflate your monthly costs. They also don’t require any major home renovations upon installment. You’ll quickly earn again the amount that you spared for the whole technology in time thanks to the mount of money that you saved from energy and emergencies.
SMART HOMES AND THE LOCAL REAL ESTATE
Expect smart homes’ continuous ascend in the Philippines. Residential developments like condominiums and townhouses are now expecting to provide access to this type of technology. In the future, home automation will be a must have in every corner of the Philippines and we can’t wait for that.
