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Innovative technology helps control your home and office atmosphere/environment, security systems, lights, and entertainment systems. It has been around for some time now, but the general public still needs to be made aware of how affordable and readily available this technology is.

Large automated intelligent home systems could cost you an absolute fortune, but the same applies to PCs, laptops, TVs, and surround sound systems. You can spend thousands literally on any one of these systems. You can also go for a plan within your budget/price range. As these systems become more common, the price is dropping, making safe home technology more readily available for homeowners.

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How Does Smart Home Technology Work?

Smart home tech is controlled by an online web browser login, a smartphone app, or an intelligent panel installed in your home. The latter, which is the same panel, can be built into the wall of your home. Some of these systems are portable; you can take the touchscreen panel from its wall station and use it as a touchpad. When it needs to be charged again, it is simply placed back in the wall station.
All commands and settings are controlled through the application on whichever device the application is installed. You can set your lights to turn on and off at set times and have your entire heating or home cooling system on a timer so your home or office will be at a comfortable temperature when you arrive. Some systems will automate the curtains and blinds in the buildings, so they open, shut, and close at set times.
  • Set your home on a timer
  • Automated lighting system
  • Automated heating/cooling
  • Automated curtains and blinds
This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding intelligent home technology. Also, it is worth noting that even though we use the term intelligent home tech a lot, this technology is not just limited to your ‘home.’ In fact, many offices have been using automated and remote-controlled smart home technology for quite some years. The home cinema and entertainment clever home tech are probably the most popular technology.

See the ZDNet blog covering 7 must-have smart home office devices.

Home Entertainment Smart Home Tech

Innovative home technology has long been used with widescreen TVs and home music systems. So many variations of this technology are available that you are literally spoiled for choice.

Smart Home Music Systems

Music can be controlled via a smart home app, so you literally have an entire sound system that your smartphone can automatically connect to. With speakers fitted to every room, the music can follow you around the house. When you are out of range of one speaker, it will switch off; when you are in the field of other music speakers, they will automatically start playing the music.

If you have a party or people in every room who would like to listen to the same music, then you can switch off the speakers follow feature and select which speaker in the home you want to continuously play the music. You can even have two, three, or four smartphones connect to the system, and each phone can select which speaker to play which piece. Therefore, your offspring could listen to music in one room while you listen to different music in another.

All this obviously comes with volume control directly from your smartphone app or by using the wall panel that comes with the intelligent home system. When it comes to music, the type of speakers you buy, how many, where you place them, and whether you want to have a system that allows more than one person to play their own music on different speakers is entirely down to how much you want to invest in the system.

Smart Home Cinemas Systems

Home cinema systems come in all shapes and sizes. They also connect to the speaker system to have cinema-quality sound in your living room. If you have multiple TVs in the home, these can be controlled via your smartphone app or the wall panel control system with your smart home entertainment installation.

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Integrating Smart Home Technology

If you install an intelligent home system, consider rolling several components into one. That means integrating your CCTV and intruder alarm system into your smart home setup. This way, you will have home security, entertainment, atmospheric control, and lighting control all in one convenient application.

Also, you can add extras su, ch as automated blinds, curtains, and access control. Access control means you can have a computerized home locking system. No more keys are needed, as you can unlock doors from your smartphone application via a keycode (if your smartphone is out of battery) or via biometrics. You can control your front gate opening and closing and your garage door. If you have the money to invest, the world is your oyster with smart home tech.

An innovative home application can now control every aspect of your home. It is incredible that this kind of technology is available and can all be controlled from an application on your smartphone. This is undoubtedly the future of all homes. Right now, it is pretty rare to see this technology in action in your everyday household, but fast forward to ten years, and we are sure that innovative home technology is going to be a part of at least 50% of every household.

This technology is also going to create more jobs as the demand by homeowners to have this tech installed is going to increase over the next one or two decades, so if you are looking for a career in the next big thing, then think about training to become a competent home installation specialist.