Home Automation

So you’re interested in home automation and smart home technology but you’re worried it’s not right for you or your home for one reason or another. You’ve heard a lot of things about the tech, good and bad, and you’re not sure what’s true and what’s rampant internet rumormongering gone wild. There are a lot…

Home automation is becoming increasingly common in residences across the country and the systems become easier to use every day, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some occasional hiccups. Through installation issues to misconceptions about what the systems can do, homeowners have various complaints arise about their own home automation networks every now and then.…

The current state of home automation is becoming clear to more and more people as they integrate such technology into their own homes or see its possibilities in the culture around them. Automatic locks, remote lights, adjustable thermostats and other devices and tricks, all available at the touch of a finger on your smartphone, are…

So, you’re convinced of the benefits and conveniences of home automation, yet you’re still reluctant to finally bite the bullet. You’re worried about how difficult it will be to install, manage and maintain. Well, there’s good news. Home automation is not nearly as difficult as you might think. They may call it smart home technology,…

As with all things, there are upsides and downsides, and home automation is no different in that respect. While smart home automation has a number of benefits to the savvy homeowner, there are some aspects that may not please everyone. When considering installing smart home technology in your home, it pays to be aware of…

Home automation seems fairly self-explanatory: a network of technical systems that puts your home’s essential functions in the palm of your hand, allowing you to control everything with the greatest of ease. And all of that is true, of course, but it’s hardly the entire story. There are a number of things about home automation…

We’ve dreamed of home automation for more than a century now, imagining houses of the future equipped with eager and ready artificial servitors ready to fulfill our every whim: bringing us a glass of water, cooking dinner, tending the garden. We’ve imagined sassy robot maids and mournful homes, still plugging away at pre programmed tasks…

You’ve seen it on TV, or maybe at a friend’s house: a fancy home automation set-up that responds to their every spoken whim. It seems exactly what you’d like to have in your own living set-up, but perhaps you balk at the idea of installing such a system, or paying for it. All you keep…

It’s becoming clearer every day that the future of home ownership involves more than a fair bit of automation. Home automation – that is, putting a number of home systems and operations into a computer-controlled program that allows you to control them from one centralized platform – may have once seemed the province of cheap…

As part of your home security system, homeowners might consider taking the next step and integrating some level of home automation into their everyday lives. We’ve all seen some utopian vision of the fully smart house — whether it’s the Jetsons making home cooked meals by pushing a few buttons while Rosie the Robot putters…