No matter if you had the best time of your life away from home, you tend to relax and feel more comfortable in your home. No place can be like your home, but there’s no doubt common daily problems in your home can make you feel annoyed at times.
For instance, not being able to remember if you closed the garage door or not can hinder you from concentrating on anything else. Thanks to the advancement of technology, you can invest in a integration and always have an open-close status with you on your phone, no matter where.
These problems may seem little, but they can lead to inconveniences, stress, and insecurity. In this article, we’ll talk about how smart devices solve annoying problems in your home, so you can make your life easier.
1. No More Yelling in the House
We all know how inconvenient it can be to scream at the top of your lungs to call everyone at the dinner table or even tell your kids that it’s time to sleep at night.
To prevent you from engaging in a plethora of other similar situations, you won’t be able to thank enough the intercom features offered by Google Home and Amazon Echo.
You can tell your devices to broadcast a particular message to everyone in your home without having to scream or individually go to each family member to convey the message.
You will have the option to either broadcast the message to every device in your household or only a specific one, which makes your “task” even easier.
On Alexa, you can leverage the drop-in feature that helps you connect with another Alexa device, so you can have a one-on-one conversation with your family member in real-time.
2. Get Notified When You Have a Water Leak
Whether an old appliance, the basement floor, or your water heater, this is where you have to commonly deal with the issue common for every household, AKA water leakage. These leaks can be frustrating and even cost you thousands of dollars down the road. They can cause structural damage, harming your floor and walls. Your property can also be affected by mold and grime, which is highly unpleasant to any homeowner.
What’s great is that water leak detection systems can notify you instantly as soon as they detect water leakage with the help of sensors to ensure you take quick action at the right time without worsening the situation. Some sensors can also help you keep an eye on the water temperature to prevent frozen pipes.
3. Stop Using or Handing Out Keys to Your Home
Creating duplicates of your home’s door key and losing them over and over again can surely be frustrating. Not to mention, we can all relate to how we have to scour for keys in our purses or pocket every time we have to lock or unlock the door.
However, you can save yourself the hassle by installing a smart lock. A smart lock allows you to unlock the door with a passcode that will only be known to you, your family members, and other people that you want to give entrance, such as the housekeeper or nanny.
You can always change your passcode when they no longer need access to your home, which also makes you feel secure.
Some homeowners may think that installing smart door locks are hard and require professional assistance. To clear your misconception, you can even install a smart lock yourself and it’s not much different to installing a manual lock.
4. Control Home Appliances and Even Routers from Anywhere
Not being able to recall if you turned off your kettle, light bulbs, or straightener when you leave home can make you anxious until or unless you get back home. We all have been there and know how frustrating this could be.
Investing in smart plugs allows you to keep an eye on your devices when away from home and even turn them on or off. This can be ideal when you are away on a long vacation, and you can keep switching the lights on or off from time to time to ward off burglars.
It’s essential to bring your attention to the fact that you can save a lot on energy bills this way. Whether you’re too lazy to get up from your cozy bed to switch off the light or are away from home, you can keep a check and turn off unnecessary lights. Therefore, it’s better to use smart plugs for appliances or certain lights that you commonly use.
One more thing that could be significant to you with smart plugs is the router. One hack that always tends to perform best when your Wi-Fi network is slow or glitchy is resetting it. Rather than having to get up and reboot your router, you can do it from your phone without moving an inch.
However, keep in mind that controlling your router won’t really work when your network is entirely down since it will need a Wi-Fi connection.
5. Keep the Thermostat Under Your Control
Thermostats can also pile up your electricity bills, and those bills can surely be dreading to look at. You may forget to turn off the thermostat when leaving for work, or may be too tired to adjust the temperature when you’re all comfortable in your bed.
To ensure electricity bills aren’t heavy on your wallet, you can get things under your control with the help of a smart thermostat.
A smart thermostat lets you control the temperature no matter where you are and even set schedules. This way, you can trigger your smart thermostat to turn on when you are about to reach home from work and ensure your personal space has just the right temperature.
Furthermore, some smart thermostats pick up on your preferences and apply them automatically to save you the hassle. You may even be able to find certain models of smart thermostats that let you create pin codes to lock out the controls, so only you can increase or decrease the temperature and have better control over hefty bills.
6. Give Porch Thieves an Extremely Tough Time
Ordering something online that you were really looking forward to and losing the package in the hands of porch thieves can be annoying. After all, you ordered the package for yourself, not for the thieves!
What’s great is that you can replace your traditional doorbell with a smart one. There are a plethora of viral videos online exposing porch thieves, so having a smart doorbell can deter them from stealing your packages.
Moreover, you get real-time notifications from your doorbell as soon as an activity is detected. Some doorbells also allow you to talk to the person whether you are at home or not. All this facilitates you in quickly detecting a thief and telling them that you’re calling the cops. Isn’t it a great way to actually have all the packages to yourself?
7. Always Know the Open-Close Status of Your Garage Door
Not knowing 100% whether you closed the garage door can be extremely stressful. It may even lead you to take a trip back home just to confirm since it provides an entry point to just anyone to your entire home and personal valuable belongings.
A smart garage door not only lets you view the status of your garage gate no matter where you are but also controls it. This means even if you’re in another country, you can always view whether your gate is opened or closed and also who is using it.
You can allow access to your family members or other people who need access to your home by controlling it away from home. This gives you a sense of security, peace, and convenience.
Even better, you can create a schedule for your smart garage door to automatically close at a certain time of the day, so you never have to worry about leaving it open for strangers or burglars.
8. Maintain a Lush Green Garden or Lawn
Another common problem for homeowners who love having a well-maintained garden or lawn is related to sprinklers. You want to keep it lush green and fresh, but at the same time, struggle with the timings of sprinklers.
You also don’t want to waste water when it’s already raining or has just rained, and your sprinkler turns on. There’s nothing to worry about, and you don’t have to feel guilty.
Instead, you can invest in a smart sprinkler system that you can control from your phone according to your needs and preferences. You can also create schedules to not have to deal with dead plants.
What’s even cooler is that some smart sprinklers have built-in weather data that keeps adjusting to the seasonal changes and skips turning itself on when rain has been forecasted.
9. Never Be Grumpy or Lazy for Another Minute in the Morning
Most of us are coffee addicts and need our hot and fresh cup of coffee in the morning as soon as we step out of our bed to get started with our day in the most productive way.
With a smart coffee maker, you can control all the settings right from your phone. You can also choose the temperature you want for your coffee and brew it as you like. This way, you can be sure to wake up to a hot and delicious cup of coffee and go about your day without wasting a minute.