Once a dream, Iot’s home automation is slowly but gradually becoming part of everyday life around the world. In reality, the global demand for smart home automation is estimated to hit $40 billion by 2020.

This does not come as a surprise when you know the comfort and ease that smart home systems offer. As these IoT systems are integrated, multiple operations are easier to handle. In reality, IoT home appliances also help to minimize costs and resources, not to mention time.

There is a wide variety of IoT-powered computers these days. They include thermostats, refrigerators, protection controls, and even dryers and kettles. As time progresses, more smartphones are likely to be introduced to have smarter functionality.

Home Automation IoT – Smart Homes and the Internet of Things

Let’s take a closer look at IoT before going even further. ‘Internet of Things’ is an umbrella word used for all devices that make it possible to connect a computer to the Internet.

These systems are based on data collection. The data is then used for tracking, managing and transmitting information to other computers over the Internet. This causes complex actions to be triggered automatically if such circumstances occur. Think of a smart kettle in a clear case. The kettle can be configured to be turned off automatically until it hits a certain temperature. It can even submit a message to the customer at the same time.

Now extend the same definition to the entire house and to all the gadgets present. It’s a smart home operated by IoT. Instead of going up to the computer manually and taking action, these steps may be taken by clicking a button. Nowadays, most smart IoT home automation systems allow you to monitor them with an app or even voice commands.

Now imagine that you don’t really need to take such action. In other words, the smart home will know whether to take those measures and take them automatically. That’s where the promise of home automation and IoT lies.

Here are some potential situations that we can expect in the future.

Lighting up

Intelligent lighting is all fashion these days. They may be scheduled to turn on/off and change their strength. However, a further phase may be taken in the future. With IoT activated around your house, the lights will respond to any other action you take.

For example, the lights will respond to your home theatre. They will turn off or dim any time you start watching a movie. Moving on, they may also be reacting to the genre of film. For eg, they will switch off entirely if the lights feel you’re watching a scary movie, giving you the perfect feeling.

Doors 

In the future, doors will also become smarter. Only think about them opening as you enter or near. This can be made possible by means of a mobile screen or facial recognition. This can be taken to the next level by getting the rest of the house to take steps in tandem with your admission.

For eg, the lights will turn on as soon as you reach the door. Alternatively, they will turn off if you’re going.

Windows

Windows will also become smarter. Imagine that the shutters open immediately as the sun rises and shuts at dusk. You might also be able to configure them to shut automatically when it’s raining. Take the previous example of a home video. Your curtains can be lowered while you watch a movie.

Thermostat 

These days, you can remotely monitor your home thermostat through apps. You do not even need to do that in the future. The thermostat is going to be able to know whether you’re outside your house. It will then check the room and the outside temperature and set the correct temperature for you. It can also know when you perform various acts and change them accordingly, such as when you are taking a shower or exercising.

Gardens 

The gardens will get smarter with IoT in the future. You’re going to be able to put IoT sensors in the yard. If these sensors sense dryness in the soil, the irrigation system can be activated. Robotic lawnmowers can be deployed automatically if the grass reaches a certain height.

Home Runnings

A number of the house can now be connected to smart devices. There are smart sockets that turn on/off machines automatically. Smart alarms will play music when you wake up or even say the news. Voice assistants may also run whole schedules where lighting, home electronics, thermostats, alarms and other gadgets are monitored.

Going forward, this will be extended to the entire house. Find the schedule of the morning. The shutters will open just before you wake up and help you get rid of the giggling. Even before you wake up, the coffee maker is going to start making your morning cup ready. The bathroom is going to have the water heated for your shower. Your stereo will start to play those morning tunes like your morning cup. Your TV will also turn on and screen you your favourite news channel. Of necessity, the thermostat can be adapted to a suitable temperature.

Benefits from IoT Smart Home Technology

A cool house on a hot day—far from the only profit you receive. Now let’s see the most important benefits of smart home IoT implementations.

Tracking and Monitoring

The IoT greatly increases your ability to manage and track all operations taking place at home. The refrigerator will inform you if your yoghurt is ruined after two days or if you can add milk to your shopping list.

Every day, the IoT programmed captures data on how your household operates, processes it and provides you with the most valuable insights.

Costs and electricity savings

With accurate data on the work and energy usage of each smart unit, you can conveniently maximize their use and change your smart home settings in a more cost-effective manner. You should even let the smart home device do all on its own. If no one is at home, the machine can shut down machines that are not in operation and reduce power usage.

Effect on the climate

Except for lowering the costs, saving electricity helps to reduce the negative effects on the atmosphere and to enjoy a ‘greener’ existence.

Improved Safety

The smart home surveillance system is a fantastic tool to secure your house, as it has complete control of both inside and outside your home. Security cameras, smart locks, sound, smoke, and other sensors—all of these devices work together and let you know if anything goes wrong.

You can check what’s going on inside and outside the home, sitting in the office or lying on the beach halfway around the world.

Convenience

People have always wanted something to be more comfortable and easy, and IoT in smart homes, perhaps, is the biggest accomplishment in this direction. It’s perfectly up to the challenge of simplifying and changing your life: a lot of processes operate separately in your household, but total power is always in your hands. Isn’t that the day that our ancestors dreamed of?

Of course, all of these things are not going to happen immediately. There are several obstacles to the widespread adoption of IoT-enabled smart homes, the primary of which is cost. Privacy is a more big issue. Then there are the existing technical constraints that cause difficulties in a smooth communication between multipolar IoT devices.

GeekMindz has a deep background in smart home automation initiatives, including IoT design and development, big data analytics and data science. Together with one of our customers, we have built a power monitoring and control system that offers a wide variety of benefits for consumers, utility providers, energy producers, environmental researchers and policy makers.

Using our strong engineering skills, industry experience and consumer awareness, we help businesses execute their innovations, design and grow smart home IoT solutions, launch their projects and achieve good returns. Here are only a couple of the services we offer in the IoT and Smart Home segment:

1. We connect IoT devices to smart homes and create interconnected environments where each element is at the peak of its capacity and enables reliable, stable and productive results.
2. We have experience collaborating with various IoT smart home systems and big data applications. Using our professional experience, we will select the right technology framework for your project and ensure that the technologies we choose fulfil the consistency and scalability criteria of the future framework.
3. We focus on data science to make the IoT device smart and autonomous. Using machine learning, computer vision and NLP technologies, we integrate intelligence and automation into data processing and equip users with the interfaces they really enjoy.
4. We develop beautiful web and mobile apps for smart home tenants, build easy-to-use and grasp dashboards, and fill these dashboards with valuable insights that help companies and their clients make data-driven decisions.

Concluding

Thanks to the increasing investment in IoT, the future smart home is already here, and is evolving rapidly. Today, we will see amazing connected networks for households and service providers that help people save a lot of money, increase the convenience and efficiency of their homes and, at the same time, go green.

We agree that further advancement of IoT and the introduction of artificial intelligence technology into embedded environments will help to create a modern household concept—an autonomous ecosystem that predicts what its occupants need or want and provides them with genuinely seamless user experience.

Are you looking for an established and competent product development firm to execute your smart home and IoT project? Please email our GeekMindz team to share your ideas. For years, we have helped companies harness the opportunities of the Internet of Things and Big Data and incorporate smart technology technologies into their ecosystems.

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