The Future is Today with IoT Enabled Smart Homes

Once a dream, home automation is slowly but steadily becoming a part of daily lives around the world. In fact, it is believed that the global market for smart home automation will reach $40 billion by 2020. A smart home is being touted as the biggest innovation in the real estate sector today. The rising need for consumer convenience, safety and security, energy consumption is the major driver of the smart home market. Smart home automation and IoT are creating a lot of buzz. A smart home comprises of various features and technologies that are interconnected by the Internet of Things (IoT), voice first technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Smart Meters etc. For instance, curtains, windows, doors, and even garage entrances can be operated remotely, today, with just a press of a button, or by using a connected smartphone.

A smart home is a house which is highly advanced that gives you control over all your electrical appliances, lighting & security systems, windows and doors. Apartments and villas with complete home automation systems are highly popular in today’s real estate industry. This is drawing the hearts of a lot of customers due to the advanced mechanism that is now making the lives of the residents more comfortable, effortless, safe, and more functional. There is a significant range of possibilities when we speak about smart home applications.

• Controlled smart home appliances
• Controlled electrical fixtures such as air conditioners, fans, and lights
• HVAC
• Enhanced safety and security of home
• Smart locks and switches
• Voice-based home assistant supporting natural language

Increasing awareness about the need for environmentally sustainable development and living is another reason for the rise in the increasing demand for smart homes. For most young professionals, smart homes are no longer a concept or differentiated product offering, but essential components of their dwelling specifications. The developers need to understand the consumer preference and incorporate these into their products. Few of the many popular features of Indian Smart homes are:

Security and Surveillance: A smart home has a 24/7 surveillance facility. It has features like video door monitoring & CCTV security outside the houses, which saves your property from outsiders and trespassers. A range of tools like closed-circuit cameras, sensors, alarms, and motion detectors, with voice recognition and face recognition software, ensure you are constantly safeguarded against any threat. It monitors gas leakage detection, fire detection, and control, and saves you from life threatening hazards.

Control all Functions Remotely: Smart homes are able to know when to turn off the light the moment you leave the room, deactivate the lock with your face recognition, and much more. IoT enabled smart home automation can keep all your IoT devices integrated in a way that it can exchange data with each other and communicate swiftly. Now, technology is so advanced that you can manage cooking, washing clothes and dishes, cleaning, etc. While you are away at work, you can open the door lock and allow your child or a guest to enter your place.

Climate and Temperature Control: Drastic environmental decline and peaking pollution levels in several cities in the country have today made smart home solutions for temperature and atmosphere control, highly coveted, among real estate investors and potential home buyers. By leveraging the power of IoT to combine lighting, air purification, and thermostat controls, several smart home technology solution providers, today offer energy-efficient integrated climate and temperature control solutions.

Entertainment: Smart home entertainment devices build a connected viewing and listening experience. These devices also include gaming consoles to keep you off boredom when at home. The launch of Smart TV, connected to one’s smartphone, laptop, tablet, and more, paved the way for several innovative entertainment devices used in modern homes.

Electrical: Smart Homes have smart electrical features such as smart air conditioning, smart refrigerators, and centrally regulated air conditioner to give you a comfortable and sustainable living. The power supply of all these appliances can be smartly controlled from any corner of the house. This makes up to be a very convenient feature to determine where energy can be saved. Features like lighting control you can control the lights with remote on/off or presence detection. It also allows you to choose the time of light activation according to the sunset time of your city. This saves you the energy of manually lighting up the rooms when it starts to get dark.

Save The Resources: As we all know the way we are consuming various energies, one day in future, we would lose them, and nothing would be left for our future generation. Using IoT, Home automation actually can change this scenario in smart lighting and energy application. The system is built in such a way that if one device is instructed to shut down, other connected devices can also start the shutdown process. Even, if you leave for your work without switching off the lights or water supply, you can manage all of them using your mobile app and save the enormous amount of energy and bill.

Emaar Digi Homes Sector 62 Gurgaon are voice enabled smart homes launched by Emaar India. Spread across 5.64 acres and part of 14.02 acres development, Emaar Digi Homes Gurgaon offers 2& 3 BHK luxury apartments ranging from 1508 sq. ft. – 2589 sq. ft. Emaar DigiHomes are new-age homes designed to work on your touch and voice commands and take contemporary luxury living to a new level. One of the biggest USP of Emaar Digi Homes is its voice & touch-enabled Home Automation System. Home automation system gives a centralization control to the various household activities and home appliances. In simple words, through a home automation system you can easily control the utilities and feature of your home with an app in your Smartphone to make life more convenient and safer and even spend less on utility bills.

Smart Features of Emaar Digi Homes Gurgaon Home Automation System:

• Voice & touch-enabled automation through smartphone.
• Voice activated AC switch ON/OFF control, music, ambient lighting and naturally, automated drapes set the mood for the evening.
• Biometric entrance authorization on the main gate of every home.
• Door Lock, and Video Door Phone so that you interact with guests at your door through video before providing access.
• Smoke & Gas Sensors for the extra security
• Remote controlled voice & touch video activated door access with your mobile app from anywhere. And you can also. Biometric Authorization to unlock the main door.
• Smart mood lighting, AC ON/OFF, TV, Geyser and other appliances
• WI-FI Router with a panic button in Master Bedroom with Smart Glass
• Voice Command controlling device in the living room
• Voice Enabled home automation for Lighting, AC, Curtains, TV, Microwave, Smart Lighting in Toilets

Puri Diplomatic Greens Sector 111 Gurgaon is a 20-acre luxury residential property in Gurgaon. The project’s remarkable, contemporary apartments encompass only 15% ground coverage with up to 85% being green landscaped area. A 20,000 sq. ft. Club House with various amenities and recreational hub decorates the complex. Arcop Associates are the architects responsible for these impressive residences, while S. Bose are the landscape architects.

Puri Diplomatic Greens incorporates intelligent Smart Home Automated features.

• Smart homes efficient service starts at the concierge desk in the lobby area there is also 100% power back up and fiber optics cable.
• Complete home automation with one touch controls for lights, electrical, dimmers and motions sensors, your smart home is at your fingertips.
• Robust 3 tier Security System with CCTV in the basement, video door phones, intercom.
• From the entry guard to every apartment, motion sensor panels and burglar alarms keep unwelcome arrivals away.
• Natural calamities like fire are also managed by state-of-the-art fire detection systems.