Weekend Spices: Check Out The Smart Home Devices That Will Simplify Your Life

When used properly, smart home technology should simplify your life rather than complicate it. You ought to be able to tackle routine duties more quickly and manage your home more effectively than previously. Sometimes, niggling problems that you’ve had at home for years could even be resolved by smart home technology.

Here are some low-cost smart home devices that can solve problems and simplify your life.

1. Vacuum robot.

Anyone who has children or dogs has probably developed a love/hate connection with the vacuum. Although it cleans up the messes, using it might take some time. While a robot vacuum glides across hardwood and carpet, collecting pet hair, crumbs, and anything else in its path, you can get on with more important things. It may be set to begin at a specific time and automatically return to its charging port after the task is finished.

2. Digital doorbell.

When the doorbell rings, you are already working—using a wrench, installing a light bulb, doing dishes, or anything else. There’s no hurry to rush to the door. To connect to a video doorbell located on the outside of your home near the front door, just touch a button on a smartphone app. You may identify the people present and order them to either beat the deadline or remain put for a minute.

3. Sprinklers that think.

Until you invest in a sprinkler system that is connected to the Internet and has a smartphone app, setting up a schedule for it to follow has never been simple. The app allows you to switch the system on and off anytime you want, no matter where you are and is far easier to use than the timers on the sprinkler control box. If it begins to rain while you are at work, for instance, you may use your smartphone to remotely connect with the irrigation system and temporarily halt the watering cycle.

4. Motion Detector.

A motion detector is one of the most useful smart home devices that can be used to keep an eye out for intruders, turn on and off lights, keep track of family members’ whereabouts, and more.

5. System for wireless lighting control.

How often do you jump into bed only to discover that you left the kitchen light on? To get out of bed and go to the kitchen switch seems like absolute torment once you’re there. With a wireless lighting control system, you can quickly turn off all the lights in your home by pressing a button on your smartphone or a remote control sitting on your bedside.

6. Plug That Is Linked.

In your haste to go, you forgot to turn off the coffee maker. Avoid bringing the scent of stale coffee home. Rather, spend money on a little piece of hardware that connects to an outlet. You can control appliances from your smartphone by plugging the coffeemaker into the smart socket. Additionally, it functions with everything plugged into an AC socket, including lights, box fans, and irons.