How to Make Your Home Smarter: Top Tips for Creating a Connected Space

Making your home smarter is a great way to make your life easier. Connecting your home devices and appliances to the internet, you can control them remotely and make your life more efficient.

In this blog, we will cover the following topics:

• The Benefits of Having a Smart Home

• How to Make Your Home Smarter: The Best Ways to Improve Your Space

• The Future of the Smart Home

• Our Expert Builder Recommendations

The Benefits of Having a Smart Home

Many benefits that come with having a smart home. Here are just a few of the most notable:

There are many benefits to making your home smarter. One of the biggest is that it can help you save energy and money. By connecting your devices to the internet, you can monitor and control them remotely, meaning you can make sure they're only using power when you need them to.

One benefit is increased security. With the ability to monitor and control the security system from anywhere, homeowners can rest assured that their property is safe even when they are away.

Another benefit is that it can make your life more convenient. Imagine being able to turn on your lights or start your coffee maker from bed using your voice. Or imagine being able to let your friends into your house without having to be there yourself. Smart homes make all of these things possible.

How To Make Your Home Smarter: Top Tips for Creating a Connected Space

Making your home smarter doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. Here are some of the best ways to get started:
 

1. Invest in an intelligent home assistant: Smart home assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home can do much

of the heavy lifting when making your home smarter. They can connect to and control many of your devices, making it easy for you to manage your home from one central location.

2. Get a smart thermostat: A smart thermostat is one of the best ways to save energy and lower energy bills. By connecting to your home's internet, a smart thermostat can learn your heating and cooling habits and make adjustments to save money.

3. Add some smart lighting: Smart lighting is another excellent way to save energy and create a more convenient home. You can set your lights to turn on and off when you want them to, or even adjust them automatically based on the time of day.

4. Consider other smart devices: Besides the devices we've mentioned, many different smart devices can make your home smarter. Some other popular options include smart door locks, security cameras, and even appliances like washers and dryers.

The Future of the Smart Home

The possibilities for the future of the smart home are endless. As more and more devices become connected to the internet, we'll be able to do more and more with them. In the future, we may even be able to control our homes using just our voices or thoughts. So if you're looking to make your life easier, there's no time like the present to start making your home smarter.

Our Expert Builder Recommendations

Many clients have asked for service and advice when building their smart homes. We urge all our clients to ask this simple question: what does a smart home mean to you?

At Binai Construction, we believe a smart home is a home that provides ease of life, benefiting you with simple-to-automate tasks.

It is easy to get excited about the novelties, bells and whistles of a schmick device, but it's crucial to ensure the system you choose works for you and your needs.

Here are our three expert builder tips:

1. Start small. Investing in small purchases such as lightbulbs and powerpoints is a great way to test the waters to see if an automated life is for you. Expand to a small yet straightforward system like Clipsal Wiser, with a dedicated app you can build on.

2. Try to avoid the complicated (and expensive!). When starting your first smart home, you want to avoid hardwired systems such as a C-Bus panel. They are great in theory, but once they glitch, they require a dedicated programmer to reset and reprogram the system.

3. Thorough research of each new device is essential. You want to make sure this is an investment you can build on if you choose to. We highly recommend checking the compatibility of other devices to ensure that different brands of different versions can integrate and talk to each other.