Smart Home
What Is A Smart Home
Smart technology is making our daily lives more comfortable, convenient, and safer, every day. As more and more products are developed with smart technology built in, the features you can automate in your home is growing. But what is a smart home?
A smart home is one that uses technology to automate and control home systems. The key to home automation is the ability to remotely control your connected home from your phone, computer, and more recently virtual assistants. A smart home is more than just programming lights or the coffee maker to turn off and on at certain times, but a fully integrated system you can seamlessly monitor and control everything. Additionally, one of the core aspects of smart home technology is the continued machine learning of your patterns by analyzing the information from your connected devices.
In a smart home, everything from large appliances to vacuums to home security systems can be connected to the internet, each other, and be controlled remotely. Your home can be as "smart" as you'd like, from having a few connected devices to a fully automated house. The core driver of smart home solutions is convenience. In addition, smart home technology can help improve energy efficiency, comfort, and home security.
How Does a Smart Home Work
Home automation works through a concept known as "the Internet of Things" or IoT. In your home, internet-enabled devices are all connected to a central network, your Wi-Fi network. Each of these items will be assigned a unique IP address, giving you the ability to access, monitor, and control the objects or features remotely.
How to Make Your Home Smart
At the core of the smart home is a central platform or hub to which the various intelligent devices are connected. In the past, creating a smart home hub required a substantial monetary and technological investment. However, today advances in machine learning, virtual assistants, and the products they integrate with are making smart home technology accessible to everyone. The easiest and most cost-effective way to create a smart home is first to choose the virtual assistant ecosystem which will function as your home's central hub. Keep in mind that your smart home relies on the Wi-Fi connection, so you need to make sure to have high-speed internet.
Smart homes are highly customizable, giving users the freedom to choose what features and devices within the home to connected to a central hub. You can also add or remove connected devices at any time. Home automation is more than just convenience, learn about the other benefits of smart homes.
Foolproof Home Security
With a smart home surveillance, you can leave your house without any fear of theft or damage. Smart home security allows you to monitor your house in real-time. Moreover, it has a set of sensors that detect suspicious activities and alerts the owner.
It has door & window sensors, motion detectors, and video cameras that are work continuously to crack down break-ins.
Smart Lighting System
Smart lighting is an important component of our IoT Home Automation Solution. With smart lighting, you can set all your lighting's conditions and hue as per your wish. Moreover, it also adjusts automatically as per the natural light conditions.
Create a perfect ambience in your room with just a single tap on your smartwatch. You can also turn off the lights as you leave the room.
Control Temperature
With the smart home solutions, you can also set up the optimum temperature of your room with utmost convenience. Many smart home systems have the feature which allows you to make changes in the thermostat with the just voice commands.
Whereas in many other home automation systems you can manage the thermostat with just a tap on your smartwatch.
Redefine Entertainment
Redefine entertainment with home automation technology. Control your music systems, television channels to play your preferred playlist or TV show with just a simple command on your smartphone. The audio-visual systems powered by IoT technology deliver a sound quality of top-notch level.
Install smart speakers to broadcast sound in all the corners of your house.
Prevent Disasters
Many at times it happens that there's a leakage or an electrical issue, but we get to know about it only when the situation had gotten worse. In such a situation, smart home solutions come to the rescue as it “self-monitors” themselves and notifies the owners whenever necessary.
Detect appliance failure, electrical issues, and plumbing leaks with smart home automation solutions.
Advantages of Our IoT Home Automation Solutions
Smart devices for your home
Smart Home Applications
Household Security
You can arm your home before going out or going to bed. It alarms locally and send the information to your mobile phone APP if someone breaks in or opens the door and window. Then you can watch the video captured by the camera to help apprehend the thief.
Devices: Camera + Door/Window Sensor
Warning When Doors and Windows Are Left Open
Do you occasionally forget to close the door and window before going to bed at night? This can be solved with IFREEQ door and window sensor that automatically reminds you to close them.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Door/Window Sensor
Fire Prevention
Once the smoke density in the air becomes too high, the smoke detector is immediately triggered and alarm both locally and remotely. The app on your mobile device will push a notification no matter where you are, it allows you to be promptly notified of the emergency and handle the incidents before it develops.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Smoke Detector
Gas Leakage Prevention
Natural gas is a silent killer. According to authoritative data, there are 2.5 natural gas explosions every day. After the kitchen is connected to the natural gas detector, once the concentration of natural gas in the air reaches 4% of the explosion threshold, a high-decibel alarm will be triggered. The alert will also be issued via the phone app. Our IFREEQ Wall Switch can also be linked to automatically engage the air vents to vent out the gas, preventing disasters from happening.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Gas Detector + Wall Switch
Water Leakage Monitoring
Are you concerned that the water pipe might crack and damage the floor when you are on vacation? Water leak is one of the most expensive problems homeowners encounter. This problem will be solved when you install an IFREEQ water leakage sensor on the floor. It will give out a warning once detecting the water leakage, minimizing your property damage.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Water Leak Sensor
Elderly Care
When no signs of elderly activity have been detected over a period of time, the hub will automatically issue the alert in caring for their safety. If the elderly are experiencing physical discomfort, an emergency call can be placed via a IFREEQ Wireless Mini Switch at the touch of a button.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Vibration Sensor + Motion Sensor + Wireless Mini Switch
Door Opening Triggers Lamp To Turn On
The lamp in the living room will automatically turns on to welcome you once you arrive at home and open the door.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Wall Switch + Door and Window Sensor
Easily-installed 3-Way Light Switch
Did your builder forget to install switches on both ends of a long hallway, or are the switches located inconveniently? Your traditional switch can be directly replaced with our IFREEQ light switch. Without additional cost or invasive new wiring, you can easily replace a IFREEQ light switch and bind it with a battery powered IFREEQ wireless switch, conveniently and quickly controlling lighting from exactly where you want.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Wall Switch + Wireless Switch
Automatic Air Conditioning
When somebody is at home and the temperature is too high, the air conditioner will be automatically switched on; and off,if the home is empty. There is no need to worry about forgetting to turn off the air conditioner any more.
Devices: Air Conditioner Controller + Temperature and Humidity Sensor + Door/Window Sensor + Motion Sensor
Intelligent Curtain Control
With a wireless curtain controller, you can open/close the curtain in your bedroom while staying in bed after affixing the IFREEQ wireless switch at an accessible position.
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Curtain Controller + Wireless Switch
Voice Based Lamp Control
Interoperable with Amazon's Echo, you can control lamps using voice control: "Alexa, turn on the bedroom lamps;" Alexa replies: "OK, bedroom lamps are on."
Devices: Hub(Required For Zigbee Devices) + Light Switch + Echo