What is a Smart Home?

So you’ve heard the term Smart Home, but you have no idea what it exactly means. Every home could be one, and it’s actually something maybe you’ve already started if you own an Amazon Alexa or a Google Nest.

Basically, a Smart Home is one that has smart appliances and fixtures.
Why are they smart? Because they’re able to communicate through internet connection with other appliances and even with you through your phone. One thing to keep in mind is not to let the term scare you because you’re not a tech-savvy.

So what does this things do?

Nowadays we find a lot of options for Smart Homes Devices;
you can control your house temperature when you’re 30 minutes away, you can see who’s ringing at your door while you're away in Europe or at work, you can program your coffee machine to start making coffee before you even wake up, and more.

Okay, but are they worth it?

For many people, the driving force behind creating a smart home is the potential to save energy and money with automated heating and air conditioning systems. Smart thermostats, such as those made by Alphabet’s subsidiary Nest, quickly and precisely automate the heating and cooling of a home.

Smart Home Devices

Amazon echo dot

Smart Speaker:
Voice control your smart home - Turn on lights, adjust thermostats, lock doors, and more with compatible connected devices.

Ask Alexa to set an alarm.

Tap the top to snooze.

The light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness, day or night.

Voice control your music - Stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Sirius XM, and others.

You can also listen to audiobooks from Audible.

Enjoy stereo sound - Pair with a second Echo Dot for rich, stereo sound.

Fill your home with music with compatible Echo devices in different rooms.

Ready to help - Ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, read the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices, and more.

Alexa has skills - With tens of thousands of skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new skills like tracking fitness, playing games, and more.
Designed to protect your privacy - Built with multiple layers of privacy controls, including a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the mics.

Google Nest Learning Thermostat

Smart Thermostat:
Learns your schedule and the temperatures you like and programs itself to help you save energy and stay comfortable.

Home/Away Assist automatically adjusts itself to an Eco Temperature after you leave, so you don’t heat or cool an empty home.

Remote control lets family members change the temperature from anywhere on a phone, laptop, or tablet.

With Energy History, just check your phone to see how much energy you used and why, or use Quick View on the thermostat’s display to reach.
Energy History, settings, or your schedule.

The Nest Leaf appears when you choose a temperature that saves energy.

Farsight shows you the temperature, weather, or time on your thermostat when you walk in the room.

The Nest Learning Thermostat works with the Nest Temperature Sensor (sold separately) to help make sure a certain room is the exact temperature you want it to be.

Beautifully designed, with polished metal finishes and bright, high resolution display
It’s easy to install your thermostat, typically in 30 minutes or less, with everything you need included in the box; compatible with 95% of heating and cooling systems.

iRobot Roomba 675

Smart Vacuum:
CLEAN SMARTER - The 600 series is a great way to begin cleaning your home smarter.
Just schedule it to clean up daily dirt, dust, and debris with the iRobot HOME app or your voice assistant. - for effortlessly clean floors.

LOOSENS, LIFTS, & SUCTIONS - The 3 Stage Cleaning system & Dual Multi-Surface brushes grab dirt from carpets & hard floors, an Edge-Sweeping brush takes care of corners & edges.

LEARNS YOUR LIFE LISTENS TO YOUR VOICE - Learns your cleaning habits to offer up personalized schedules, while Google Assistant & Alexa allow you to start cleaning with just the sound of your voice.

ADAPTIVE NAVIGATION - A full suite of advanced sensors allow Roomba to navigate under & around furniture, & along edges. Cliff Detect keeps it from falling down stairs.

SENSES & ELIMINATES DIRT - Dirt Detect Sensors alert your robot about dirtier areas of your home, like high-traffic spots, & cleans them more thoroughly.

CLEAN FLOORS EVERYDAY - Provides a system of cleaning features & smart sensors that allow the robot to adjust to your unique home & deliver a daily clean.

CLEANS CARPETS & HARD FLOORS - Auto-Adjust Cleaning Head automatically adapts its height to effectively clean carpets & hard floors.

Ring

Smart video doorbell:
Upgrade your door’s peephole with a 1080p HD video doorbell that enables you to see, hear, and speak to visitors from anywhere.

Get alerts on your phone, tablet, and PC when anyone knocks on your door, presses the doorbell button, or triggers the motion sensors.

Peephole Cam is easy to install and comes with all the tools you need to replace your peephole in under 5 minutes; no wiring or drilling required.

Connect your Ring doorbell with Alexa to hear announcements on your compatible Echo device when your doorbell is pressed and see a live view of your camera if you have an Echo device with a screen.
Talk to visitors by saying “Alexa, talk to the front door.”
Advanced Motion Detection lets you easily adjust the built-in motion sensors to focus on and detect what’s important to you.

Always know when you have a delivery and tell the courier to place your packages in an ideal location.

August Wi-Fi Smart Lock

Smart Lock:
A key that works everywhere.
Lock the front door and unlock it from anywhere.

Works with Alexa.

Connect your August smart lock to Alexa to lock, unlock and check lock status.

Alexa can also provide notifications when your batteries are running low so you can proactively replace them, or you can set up smart reorders to make sure you always have replacement batteries when you need them.

Connected right out of the box.
August Wi-Fi Smart Lock requires no additional bridge to connect to Wi-Fi, so you get full voice and remote access functionality without the fuss.
Requires 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network.

Upgrade your existing lock.
Easily attaches to your existing deadbolt on the inside of your door - so you can continue to use your existing keys.

Never fumble for your keys again.

Auto-unlock detects when you arrive and unlocks the door. Enable auto-lock to lock when the door closes.

Send secure keys to friends, family or people you trust instantly, all from the August app. Cancel access any time.

Philip Hue led bulb

Smart Bulb:
Control your Philips Hue Smart Lights all with just the touch of a button on your mobile device or your favorite voice assistant.
Add up to 10 Hue Bluetooth/Zigbee smart bulbs with the (free) Hue Bluetooth app.

When ready to connect a voice assistant, just go to Settings > Add voice assistant in the Hue App.

Lifetime: 22 years or 25,000 lifetime hours (based on industry average usage), Energy Star Certified

This smart light, while Bluetooth compatible, will continue to work with your Hue Hub and can be seamlessly integrated into your current Hue Ecosystem.

With the Hue Hub, you can control up to 50 smart lights throughout your home (even outdoor).

Create timers and routines to automate your entire smart home lighting setup.

Control your lights while away from home or add accessories such as motion sensors and smart switches to further enhance your experience.

Certified for humans: Struggle-free, tinker-free, stress-free. No patience needed—they’re actually simple.

Control lights with your voice: Easily connect your Philips Hue Bluetooth smart lighting directly with your voice using Alexa or Google Assistant. Works with all Echo smart speakers/displays and Google Nest devices, (Hue Hub required for Echo (1st Gen) and Echo Dot (1st Gen)). For the full Hue experience purchase the Philips Hue Hub (sold separately).

Worx WR140 Landroid M 20V Power Share

Robotic Lawn Mower
[FULLY AUTOMATED] The Landroid M cuts lawns up to ¼ acre all by itself.

Just set the charging base, lay down the boundary wire, measure your lawn with the app, and let it mow.

[WI-FI & APP CONTROLLED] There are many things you can do from the Landroid app: measure your lawn, check mowing progress, keep software up to date, update your mowing schedule and more.

[DO IT ALL WITH THE SAME BATTERY] Worx Power Share is compatible with all Worx 20v and 40v tools, outdoor power and lifestyle products.

[NAVIGATES NARROW PATHS] Patented AIA technology allows Landroid to navigate narrow passageways too difficult for ordinary robotic mowers.

[CUSTOMIZED MOWING SCHDULES] Have Landroid mow every day, every other day, it can even recommend an auto schedule based on your yard’s size and conditions.

[TACKLES OBSTACLES] If Landroid encounters obstacles it will bump them and back away, or you can exclude areas of your lawn that you don’t want Landroid to mow.

Landroid can also tackle slopes in your yard up to 20°.

[RAIN SENSOR] When Landroid detects rain, it returns to the charger to wait until the lawn is dry. Even though its body is rain-resistant, it knows better than to cut wet grass.

[CUT TO EDGE] The 7” offset 3-blade cutting disc gets closer to the edge than other mowers, so you have less trimming to do later.

Dolphin Nautilus CC Automatic Robotic Pool Cleaner

Robotic Pool Cleaner

Sit back and relax while the Nautilus CC cleans the pool for you.

Ideal for small pools up to 33 feet, this compact cleaner will have your pool ready for splashing fun in just 2 hours.

Efficiency is key when it comes to pool cleaning. Unlike suction and pressure cleaners, Dolphins are 8 times more energy efficient and do not rely on your pool pump or filter to get the job done.

Ditch the pumps and hose and save energy with every pool cleaning.

Dolphin does all the hard work for you.

Agile and efficient, the Nautilus CC was designed to clean your pool, effortlessly. With superior scrubbing and filtering capabilities, you can relax knowing your pool’s floor and walls are left exceptionally clean.

Clean your pool with the touch of a button.

Schedule the Nautilus CC to automatically clean your swimming pool each week using 3 settings- every day, every other day, or every 3rd day.

With more than 35 years of cleaning the world’s residential swimming pools, Dolphins provide pool owners with a hassle-free cleaning solution of unmatched performance and longevity.

Get back to what really matters; spending time with family and friends.

Anova Culinary | Sous Vide Precision Cooker Pro (WiFi)

Smart Cooking:

Perfect results every time: never over or undercook your food again.

The Anova precision cooker sous vide (pronounced “sue-veed”) circulates water at the exact temperature required for perfectly cooked meals, no matter what's on your menu.

Use the Anova app to access thousands of free recipes and monitor your cook from anywhere via your smartphone.

What to cook: sous vide cooking's the perfect level of doneness for nearly any food of your choosing.

Chicken, fish, vegetables, eggs, beef, lamb, pork and more are all ideal candidates for sous vide circulation.

The ability to lock in flavor and moisture during the cooking process results in texture and taste that is second to none.

Our most powerful sous vide: powerful and durable enough to meet the demands of a restaurant kitchen, yet compact enough for the home chef.

The Anova precision cooker Pro is the most substantial sous vide Circulator in our lineup.

The Pro is able to heat up to 100L of water when in a covered container, and run for a minimum of 10, 000 hours straight without shutting down.
Constructed with stainless steel, the Anova Pro is drop tested and IPX-7 rated; drop the device on the floor or dunk it under water, and you can keep on cooking.

Easy to use: simply attach the precision cooker to your own pot or container, fill the pot or container with water, add your food in a sealed bag, and cook manually with the built-in controls or with the Anova app.