The fast tempo of life allows us to spend less and less time on routine tasks. Even such trifles as boiling a kettle, closing curtains or turning off the lights around the house before leaving take much time in total. In an effort to make their lives more comfortable, people have developed an intelligent system that performs mentioned actions for them, and called it smart house in UK management technology.
The latest smart home technologies allow to control everything from buttons or remotely using a special remote control. All actions can follow a pre-laid scenario, as well as be performed on command from a smartphone, tablet or computer with Internet access.
Operation principle
The central control unit of the equipment collects information using various sensors from around the house, using a two-core wire, which does not require an additional cable channel. With its help, management is also carried out. This is possible due to the addressing of devices and their identification during the exchange of information.
All moving mechanisms are equipped with electric drives that carry out movement. Each room has a temperature controller and a separate media system can be installed. Installing cameras will make it possible to monitor smart housing from anywhere in the world.
As a result, wireless communication is provided by a special module that exchanges information with the main unit and your devices via the Internet.
Advantages and disadvantages
In comparison with ordinary housing, smart homes are much more comfortable and technologically advanced. Their main advantages are:
- Cost—effectiveness: energy efficiency provided by centralized control allows you to really save on heating and electricity bills, which is globally relevant;
- Convenience: automation is always at the same time with an increase in the level of comfort and the exclusion of routine tasks from everyday affairs, which, as a result, saves time.
- Security: technology allows you to monitor the condition of the house from anywhere on earth.
The main repulsive reasons:
- Price: the cost of equipment and installation is currently quite high;
- Possibility of hacking: you should not forget that now more people are engaged in the security of such systems than in hacking;
- Reliability: complexity always negatively affects reliability.
You can find flaws in everything, their significance is important, and for everyone it is different. The disadvantages are questionable; they are not worth giving up smart technology.
