What Makes a Home Automation System Smart

 


Home automation is a rapidly growing market in today’s technology-savvy world. It’s an appealing blend of technology and convenience (and a plain old cool factor) that, not surprisingly, has resulted in a multi-billion-dollar industry…and growing.

Very simply put, a home automation system is a system that helps to automatically control home appliances using different technologies and controllers. Home automation systems work to make the operation of a variety of home appliances more convenient and save energy, which in turn saves money. Home automation is appealing to many people because it simplifies electrical or electronic device use.

Sensors are a key component that make home automation possible. Sensors are triggered, which in turn sends signals/data to the main controlling device. The main controlling device of a home automation system may be a hub or it may be a tablet, PC, or smart phone. Once the controller receives the data, it will use that data to control the actuating device. Actuators are becoming more and more expanded, including things like lights, thermostats, fans, door locks, security cameras, even coffee makers and speakers.

Connectivity and communication is important for home automation systems if there is to be effective remote access and control of the smart devices. All the components work together within the parameters you set and even make energy-saving improvements where possible

Type Of Home Automation Systems

There are three main types of home automation systems. These are described below:

  1. Power Line Home Automation System. This type of automation utilizes existing power lines to transfer automation information and is therefore inexpensive, but it require additional converter circuits and external complexity.
  2. Wired Home Automation System. This type of home automation has all of the involved equipment and devices connected to a main controller via a communication cable. All operations are centralized by whatever computer is continuously communicating with this main controller.
  3. Wireless Home Automation System. This type of home automation expands and updates wired automation by using wireless technologies such as wi-fi connection, ZigBee, Bluetooth, etc. Wireless automation systems provides remote operation capabilities.

In this article, we’ll take a brief look at some of the possible components of a home automation system to give you a feel for possibilities. Because home automation systems can be customized to fit your home and lifestyle perfectly, it’s important that you identify your own priorities and situation for the ultimate home automation. Below are products that, based upon our research, come highly recommended due to their ease of installation and use, convenience, and effectiveness.


Home Automation System Component: The Hub.

The hub for a smart home automation system is a hardware device that connects the devices that are on the home automation network. In general, hubs are network devices that serve as a headquarters of sorts for data from connected devices. The hub is then able to send this data along to one or more other devices. A smart hub is important for home automation because, often, the device components are non-computing. They will often sense things (such as motion, light, temperature, etc.), and that data enables the devices to link to the hub to enable communication and control. Smart hubs typically have an integrated switch to maintain necessary information and to determine how and where the data is forwarded.

Not surprisingly, the hub is often the first place to start in designing a home automation system. This is because it plays a key role in the connectedness and usefulness of additional, or accessory, devices. In addition, once you have a hub in place, it’s easier to add additional devices at your convenience, even one at a time if that’s what works best for you.

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