work or even on a business trip and hearing a call from a neighbor that you are flooding him? Unless you find out about a fire or a gas leak.
A smart home eliminates these risks. Smoke, water, gas, and broken window sensors will warn you of potential troubles in time and help prevent them. Having detected water leaks, the system automatically shuts off the supply of cold and hot water to the risers; in the event of a gas leak, it shuts off the gas.
Unified control center
Smart home elements are connected via a controller or control unit. It receives viber database data from all sensors and processes it, or transmits it to the server for processing control via a smartphone.
Autonomous home or advanced?
A smart home can process all commands via or without the Internet.
In the first case, the devices interact directly through the controller. The user gives a voice command, for example, to turn on the light in the room, the control unit synchronizes with the smart lamp, and it turns on.
The devices exchange data via special wireless communication protocols - Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z-Wave, RF. This is convenient, and the smart home works a little faster than when processing data through a server. However, this way it is impossible to provide complex work scenarios and set up remote access. You will not be able to turn on the air conditioner at home from the office, you will not know about smoke or an open window.
The most popular scheme of smart home operation is via the Internet. In this case, data from sensors is collected via a gateway, but processed on an external server, and can be sent to your smartphone. This allows you to always monitor and manage the situation.