Smart Home Trends in India: Now and Beyond
‘Smart’, as the word reads, is the technology that learns and curbs the burden on humans to accomplish a job, whether it is smartwatches, smartphones, or smart TVs. The same theory goes true with smart homes — an emerging technology that understands the utilization pattern of the house owner, decreases the effort a person takes, and enhances the safety and security of the house.
A couple of years ago, smart home technology was difficult to grasp due to the civil workforce required to automate the home. Besides the circuitry that an individual has to do at home, smart devices leveraged a common center to transmit information to home gadgets like fans, lights, and switches, among others. As such, the entire process hindered the adoption to smart homes.
Apart from the smart switches, smart lights, and smart thermostats, smart home technology has witnessed the following developments with regards to technology and availability:
Smart Wi-Fi Equipment
Considering the growth impetus of smart homes, legacy companies of smart equipment have started off developing products that do not need a hub and are straightforward to set up and control. With the inclusion of Wi-Fi technology in the smart equipment, it has become effortless for any house owner to set up and utilize them effectively.
Now, devices armed with Wi-Fi technology are capable to communicate directly to the apps sans the need for the hub.
Sleek Connection with Wi-Fi Mesh Technology
Apart from the Wi-Fi-driven smart products, companies have also shed light on the requirements of Wi-Fi mesh technology that can link several Internet of Things (IoT) products without any bug. This technology helps provide optimum coverage within the house and ensures that every product is connected to each other.
Managing Homes Made Easy with Voice-assistant Technology
Established market players have emerged with the voice-assistant technology that works on voice commands of an individual.
With control systems and voice assistants making forays, house owners can easily manage their homes distantly. Smart homes have become even easier to leverage with voice assistants being able to figure out the contextual meaning of a person that pulls in a remarkable advancement in speech technology.
Given the tech advancements and wider availability of smart products in the marketplace, the adoption of smart home technology has surged and so has its inclusion in smart products. The IoT creates huge chunks of data. When we talk about smart homes and IoT products, machine learning (ML) will help innovate myriads of applications and aspects beyond the conventional technologies.
It will help monitor the energy usage of all the smart devices and offer an exhaustive report of energy usage patterns. The initial step to adopting a better living is to know where you are currently going wrong.
Also, it will help understand the user pattern and the utilization of devices, which will further help provide recommendations for effective utilization of the smart products and understand them to behave automatically.
Owing to this technology advancement over the recent past, house owners can now know their homes better by monitoring their energy usage and thus be more eco-friendly.
This leads us to another major aspect of smart homes that is triggering a shift towards the adoption of home automation — it helps house owners curb costs considerably.
