If you want to turn your old homeinto a smart home, you'll need to do more than just learn some DIY tips. You would also need to link up the different smart devices with a smart home hub.
The purpose of the hub is to store all the rules and logic and this happens either in the cloud or on a local server.
Examples of smart home hub includes Amazon Alexa , HomeKit or cloud based hub like IFTTT. These smart home hubs let you connect different devices and services together, creating "recipes” for the home.
For example, let’s say you want yourPhilips Hue light bulbs to turn on when your BOSCH washing machine has completed its washing cycle. You would create a recipe like this:
IF BOSCH washing machine completecycle = YES
THEN turn on Philips Hue light bulbs
You can also use IFTTT to sendyourself a text message or an email when the cycle is complete.
- Before You Begin
The first step in building your smarthouse is to establish objectives. Then, choose the one you care about most: energy saving, convenience, or comfort. The device you choose for your smart
home will change depending on your priority.
- Connect Smart Devices Using a Smart Home Hub
One example of a cloud based smarthome hub is IFTTT. IFTTT’s name comes from the programming conditional statement “if this, then that.”
Although IFTTT is primarily used like a smart home hub to communicate with smartdevices in your home, it may also be used to connect various smart devices together.
IFTTT is a fantastic tool that canhelp you connect all of your smart devices in your home to create a cohesive experience. With IFTTT, you can set it up so that when one device performs an action, it will trigger another device or group of devices to do something as well. This makes for a much more seamless and efficient smart home overall!
- Ensure Your Smart Home Is Set Up Securely
A lot of people are excited about thepotential of the Internet of Things (IoT). The idea is that everything in your home will beconnected to the Internet and be able to talk to each other. While this is common, there are certain security issues that might arise from it.
Because everything in your home will be connected to the Internet, it is possible for hackers to hack into and gain access to your devices and use them to spy on you or even control them.
How Does IoT Work?
IoT devices are connected to theInternet and are able to communicate with each other within the cloud based account. They can also be controlled remotely using a mobile app or a web browser.
An IoT ecosystem contains web-linked intelligent devices that use built-in systems, like processors and communication hardware, to gather data, send it out, and take action based on what they learn from their surroundings. Usually, these IoT devices share the sensor information they’ve collected by connecting to an edge-computing device like a local server or an on-site smart home hub where the data is either sent within the home network for logic processing and analysed right there locally.
- Convert Your Old Devices Into a Smart Device
If you have an old webcam lying around, put it to good use by turning it into a smart camera!
Smart security cameras are a fantastic way to stay up-to-date on activity in your home, even when you're away. It also gives you the peace of mind knowing that your home is being monitored, even when you're not there.
It is also important that when you start to add on other smart devices to your home, that you ensure that they are compatible with your smart home hub or Application.
As much as you can it would be betterif you avoid needing to use various applications to coordinate all of your smart devices.
The Home-A-Genius Difference
As IoT is a common solution given bymany smart home providers, here at Home-A-Genius, we provide you a better solution that is more secure and versatile.
Home-A-Genius smart home in Singapore operates withinthe local network; i.e. it works independently withoutthe internet, while connecting the devices within the same network.
This means that your data iscollected and stored locally on your devices and not in the cloud. So, you don't have to worry about anyone hacking into your system to get hold of your
data.
No Internet connection is needed tostore rules and logic - as they are all stored with the local server in your home.
While our hub works on edgecomputing, we also allow for cloud backup to allow for system restoration if need be.
