Everyone loves it when internet makes better our daily lives. To celebrate this easiness brought about by internet of things, below are the best internet of things devices that you may wish to invest in for your home:
Ecobee3 Thermostat
The device is able to learn your schedule and preferences, and then adjusts the temperature as per your preferences. It is more enjoyable and better looking, as compared to plastic pieces in many homes.
Their presence will aid greatly in energy saving, as they keep your conscious high. The thermostat can settle their own bills time to time. You are also capable of cooling your house down using your phone, with no need to get out of bed. It is most convenient for large houses if accompanied by many remote sensors.
Also Read: Best Fastest Internet Browsers that's worth tryingThough costly, many remote sensors allows control of temperatures in various rooms.
Philips Hue Lighting
Philips hue uses the lighting concept and it works well. The Hue devices family enables the ability to change the room’s mood easily.
The Hue is not cheap. If interested with adjusting the room lighting at a cheaper price, try out Cree bulb which in order to function requires a hub. Though it is not as colorful, it can be controlled using a mobile device, hence saving cash.
Nest Protect
Nest protect smarten and spruce a device you take for granted. The connected carbon monoxide and smoke detector looks better than the gray chunk plastic in material on the ceiling, which also functions well and alerts in case of any potential dangers.
If not around home, the device will send a notification to your phone. It also has a handy feature that notifies using a flashlight if the nest protect detects you are walking in the dark. It also has the capability of changing non-emergency alerts from the app directly instead of disconnecting the whole device.
Amazon Echo
Amazon echo is a Bluetooth speaker. The device acts as a Google for your home, giving the current weather forecast, crawls up the web for any emergent information, fires up music, sets calendar events and alarms, and any other home device as per your request. It is very simple to operate and use.
Sonos Play: 1
This is a music device which, despite being small in size, can stream music easily from Pandora, Google play, Siriusxm, amazon prime, spotify and others devices.
Nest Cam
Nest cam is great or monitoring. It gives a wide-angle, of resolution 1080p stream that enables you to watch from your phone. It is not a replacement of the home security system but rather very useful if you have a child who requires close monitoring.
It will send an alert to your phone in case of any suspicious activity at a time limit of one and half hours. However, it is also possible to trace the past happenings via the cloud.
Belkin Wemo Switch
This device aims at making users anxious in case anything is left plugged in in their house. The device plugs into an AC outlet, already existing, then connects to your homes Wi-Fi network allowing you to turn on or off anything which is plugged into the device via an app in your phone which corresponds to it. If a certain home device is consuming a lot of power, you can set it to be shut down automatically it gets to a given cost per day.
Roomba 980
Roomba is a robot vacuum which is quite expensive. The device can be scheduled to start cleaning automatically at certain times regardless of your presence or not.
August Smart Lock
August smart lock is a niche device that allows remote controlling of a door lock. The app is simple to install, though is quite thick, and also goes over the deadbolt instead of fully replacing it.
It allows you to have your door open by unlocking it without any need of a touch. It comes with an accessory called August connect that adjusts the smart lock. It only allows entry of some people in the house, even in your absence.
Logitech Harmonized Home Control
This works best for individuals with few smart devices. The remote is capable of connecting things like the Philip hue, the nest thermostat or even the sonos.
It allows controlling of multiple devices with no need to direct the remote to what you would like to control. Hence, it helps narrow down multiple processes that else would be complicated.
Internet of things book.
'Internet of Things: A book by Gerard Blokdijk. The full info can be found at https://store.theartofservice.com/internet-of-things-a-user-guide/ right now.
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This article was written by Simon Parker. Simon Parker works for
Minerva Security, a company which deals with commercial business security and fire alarm systems.