The Smart Appliances That Will Actually Make Your Home Better

If your wants and needs are simpler, just a few relatively inexpensive appliances will deliver most of the conveniences a high-end smart home can deliver, and on a much more modest budget. And if you make sure those smart appliances are compatible with each other, you’ll build a solid foundation that you can expand over time. The key is knowing which smart appliances home products don’t depend on a smart home hub to operate. While hubs offer advantages—the most important of which is having a single user interface to control everything—they’re not always essential. One thing you must have, however, is a good wireless router—ideally one that can reach all corners of your home. You can find below common ways you can build a hub-free smart home system. 

Every smart appliance you add to your house will make it better and cooler. 

In décor, lighting plays a major role. It is an essential feature, often forgotten, in planning a space, and the easiest to transform the mood of a particular room. It is even better if it’s smart lighting! Smart light systems at home are very handy and are very easy to install. Their smart plugs allow lamps to be easily controlled, including timers to have them lit or turned off at particular moments during the day. 

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 Smart speakers

What’s easier than telling your smart speakers through your smartphone to “dim the lights” from the comfort of your sofa? Indeed, these smart speakers can be your personal assistant at home. You can tell them everything you want, and they will do it. They also serve as a central interaction point for home security cameras, displaying video feeds from the latter on connected TVs or their own displays, among many other things.

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 They deliver both comfort and cost/energy savings. These devices go beyond establishing a heating and cooling schedule based on when you anticipate being home to enjoy those benefits. They can detect when you’re home and when you’re away so that your HVAC system operates only when it’s needed! The latest trend on this front is to equip thermostats with sensors. You can put it in the rooms you occupy most frequently so that the thermostat operates on the basis of where you are in the house, instead of triggering heating and cooling cycles based on the thermostat’s location, which is typically in a hallway you only ever pass through. 

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 Home security cameras

 You should never take home security lightly. Make sure you are seeing every angle of your house. A quality home security camera will enable you to keep a watchful eye on your home, especially while you’re away. Indoor models can help you monitor your children and pets, while outdoor models can catch prowlers in the act—and hopefully discourage them from coming around in the first place.

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 Conventional smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are inherently dumb devices. Their alarms might be loud, but if no one’s home to hear them, what good do they accomplish? A smart smoke detector will sound a local alarm, too, but it will also send an alert to your smartphone—and to anyone else you authorize as a contact—if danger is detected. Some smart smoke alarms incorporate emergency lights that can help you find your way out of a smoke-filled home; while others include advanced features such as an integrated smart speaker. If money is an issue, Roost, for instance, offers a less expensive alternative: A smart battery that can make your existing smoke detector more intelligent.

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