In recent times smart homes have been gaining a lot of popularity. The devices in a smart home are linked together and may be accessed through a single central point—a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or game console. One home automation system may operate door locks, televisions, thermostats, home monitors, cameras, lights, and even appliances like the refrigerator. Nowadays, everyone can afford smart devices. Even if you are not technically skilled, you can use these devices straight away. Therefore it is a good idea to get smart devices for your homes as it helps make your house more secure and gives you more control over your home’s environment.
1. Amazon Echo Dot with Clock
This is an Echo Dot with an ingenious LED clock incorporated into its face. This seemingly insignificant feature, however, adds a tonne of versatility to the Echo Dot, making it an even greater smart home partner. Indeed, we wish other smart home firms would follow Amazon’s lead and make tiny yet significant improvements to already fantastic devices.
2. Nest Cam
The Nest Cam Outdoor can help put your mind at ease. Nest Cam Outdoor is attractive, weatherproof, and powered by a plug. Nest Cam has intelligence built-in to offer you notifications for people, animals, and cars. Nest Aware can even recognize familiar faces. Choose an area of your home to monitor, such as your driveway or living room, and then select which notifications you’ll receive.
3. Ecobee SmartThermostat
The fifth-generation Ecobee SmartThermostat offers everything we liked about its predecessor, the Ecobee4, including Alexa integration, a nice touchscreen interface, and a remote sensor that helps ensure all of your house’s rooms are adequately heated or cooled. Ecobee thermostats can survive up to ten years, however, this is dependent on how regularly you use them.
4. Philips Hue White A19 Starter Kit
The Philips Hue White starter kit comes with two bulbs as well as a hub for connecting them to other smart home devices. While you cannot modify the colours of these bulbs, you can adjust their brightness (up to 800 lumens) and connect up to 50 to a single hub. Philips bulbs are also compatible with a variety of smart home technologies, such as Alexa, Apple HomeKit, IFTTT, Google Home, and Nest.
5. August Wi-Fi Smart Lock
August smart locks, which are easily installed to existing deadbolts, are the ideal choice for everyone from apartment dwellers and renters to high-end homeowners, and its strict security and privacy policies provide customers with a strong sense of personal protection. Over two million users rely on the August Cloud and August App to lock their front door.
6. Nest Doorbell
Google-owned Nest has finally released a battery-powered option three years after the launch of its first video doorbell, Nest Hello. While Nest Hello was and continues to be a superb video doorbell, its hard-wiring installation requirements make it unsuitable for everyone. The Doorbell Battery, on the other hand, looks more modern than the wired Nest Hello and is much easier to install due to its battery-powered nature.
7. Wemo WiFi Smart Plug
Wemo offers some of the best smart plugs on the market, and it has recently proven that it plans to keep that reputation. The all-new Wemo Wifi Smart Plug is the brand’s most spectacular product to date, bringing the best features of the Wemo Mini smart plug to a more compact design.
8. Nest Protect
Nest Protect, a $129 internet-connected smoke and carbon monoxide detector, is the company’s newest product. The Protect, like the Nest Thermostat, offers a sleek design and user-friendly features such as voice instruction. It promises to eliminate the annoyances that cause customers to deactivate their existing smoke alarms while also providing other conveniences such as phone alerts.
9. Samsung SmartThings
SmartThings is a control and automation platform that encompasses a wide range of first- and third-party devices, not simply Samsung’s. Users can manage lights, locks, speakers, cameras, thermostats, and garage door openers from many manufacturers using a single app for Android and iOS.
10. Chamberlain MyQ
The myQ system functions similarly to any other add-on garage door remote control, partnering directly with your opener hardware via the “learn” button. Once associated, you may use myQ’s mobile app to communicate with the hub and send a wireless signal to the opener, ordering it to open or close.
