Smart Homes in Singapore | Guide to Building Smart Homes in Singapore

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A smart house can handle it all, from keyless access to color-changing lights and voice-activated streaming. Let’s take a look at how you can make your home smart on a budget. We give you a beginner’s guide to Smart Homes in Singapore. 

Smart Homes?

Smart houses are one application of the Internet of Things (IoT). Creating a smart home entails replacing ordinary household items like lights and entertainment systems with sophisticated equivalents that can link to the Internet and the home WiFi network.

This allows them to all be controlled from a single point, which may be a voice-activated speaker or a specialized app on your smartphone. Many interesting things become feasible as a result of this.

Smart Homes in Singapore

What are the benefits or conveniences of having a smart home?

When you stroll up to your house after a long day at work, your main door automatically unlocks, allowing you to enter. You walk inside a home that is softly lighted, with the air conditioner blowing a cool breeze. After supper, you decide to unwind with a long-awaited movie or serial drama. Your 55″ television begins streaming your Netflix queue with a simple voice command, while the lights dim themselves automatically.

When it’s time to sleep, your bedroom lighting will turn a soothing lavender colour. The air conditioner is turned on to your selected temperature, the front door is locked for the night, and everything else is turned off. Sounds like a scene from a dystopian future, doesn’t it? Everything we’ve stated is entirely feasible with the proper equipment.

What do I need to know before making my house smart?

There is no limit to attaining a technologist’s idea of living in a completely automated home, controlled by simple voice commands or a tap of a touchscreen because virtually every household appliance can be engineered to link to a unified network and operate wirelessly (thus made smart’).

In actuality, the existing smart home ecosystem is a jumbled mass of numerous protocols — some proprietary, others open source — depending on brands and standards, which means that not every smart home gadget can communicate with one another. As a result, there’s a chance you’ll come across a smart home device or two that won’t function with your present configuration, prompting you to add a hub or even a separate network to control the wayward devices.

As a result, it is critical to select devices with broad compatibility (the ability to interact with as many platforms as possible) in order to maintain a cohesive smart network.

Is it costly to install smart homes in Singapore?

Smart home devices cost many times more than typical ‘dumb’ appliances. A standard LED light bulb, for example, costs about a dollar or two, but a smart version can cost more than 20 times as much. Proponents of smart homes, on the other hand, point to improved power and resource management, which leads to long-term savings. Lights and lamps, power plugs and switches, speakers, televisions, door locks, and doorbells are currently the most popular smart home products.

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