Smart homes make my life easier, forget pushing phone buttons or typing into keyboards to access apps, play your music, or more importantly make calls. Thanks to a rapidly growing digital assistant marketplace and voice-activated technology advancements, you can subsequently do all this plus much more by simply talking into your device.
Gone is the era of touch as the standard user interface; as it notably and gradually conceding to a new and totally different era of digital assistants and voice. Now, consumers can engage with various search engines on a relatively deeper level, not to mention more meaningful ways.
In the current market, consumers are utilizing voice search to perform multiple actions, including getting directions, shopping, booking travel, making reservations, and much more.
The digital assistant marketplace was predicted to hit USD 8.9 billion between 2017 and 2023 as per the MRFR (Market Research Future) report, and looking at it over the years; it is well on that course. Several factors are thrusting the digital assistant marketplace growth.
According to the MRFR report, the factors include increased investment in the smart homes and IoT technology, increased usage of smart speakers in residential applications, growing mobile personnel, not to mention an increase in the outsourcing trend.
Moreover, other factors also include increased social media popularity, increased customer engagement focus, as well as big data analytics and cloud applications use, and popularity.
To boost customer satisfaction as well as increase revenue, firms across the globe are revising several consumer experience policies. This is also likely to boost the demand for digital assistants.
This excerpt will seek to define digital assistants, their basic operations, standard features, as well as the top digital assistants in 2019 and how they compare.
Smart homes make my life easier, forget pushing phone buttons or typing into keyboards to access apps, play your music, or more importantly make calls. Thanks to a rapidly growing digital assistant marketplace and voice-activated technology advancements, you can subsequently do all this plus much more by simply talking into your device.
Gone is the era of touch as the standard user interface; as it notably and gradually conceding to a new and totally different era of digital assistants and voice. Now, consumers can engage with various search engines on a relatively deeper level, not to mention more meaningful ways.
How can a smart home make my life easier?
I was listening to the radio the other day and the talk show host was talking about how he couldn’t think of a single reason to have a digital assistant. I use my digital assistant every single day for a variety of purposes so I found this comment to be strange. Having a smart home is not just about showing off your fun toys to your friends, although I know that can be a bonus. A well-designed smart home can also make your life easier in many ways. I will write about a few of the ways that my smart home has made my life easier and then offer some suggestions for getting started building your own smart home.
Voice controlled technology for hands free activities.
You may be thinking; how useful can this really be. Yes, it’s true you can turn your lights on and off without getting out of your chair. The clapper was doing that years ago. Well, now you can turn off every light in the house at once (assuming you bought enough light switches) or you can light up the path to the kitchen with a few words. Maybe you already have a remote control installed that can offer you this same functionality. I can tell you that I had a remote control before I got the Alexa controlled lights. Additionally, I still have the remote control because I used the Lutron light switches that offer both remote control and voice control. I find that they both come in handy in different situations. Sometime I want to turn on the lights when my hands are full or I am not near the remote. Sometimes I use the remote so that I don’t have to pause the TV or wake up my wife. Whatever the situation it’s nice to know that I have all of the options at my fingertips. But why stop at lights, there are so many types of devices that come with digital assistant compatibility now that there are just too many to list here. It seems no matter what you want to do, there may be a device for it. Everything from controlling the temperature of your house to locking your doors.
Automating activities creating schedules and scenes.
Some of the most exciting features of the smart home can be tied together to change the entire mood of the house. You can create a scene that performs multiple actions in a series with just a single command. For example, say you want to watch a movie, but not just watch a movie. Maybe you also want to close the blinds to keep the glare off the TV. Dim the lights for optimal viewing pleasure, and even turn on the popcorn maker and get the popping started. Since all of that is in preparation for a movie night the next step would be turn on the TV. All of this and more can be placed in a scene and executed with a single command.
Never worry about forgetting to turn something off.
How many times have you left the house and then wondered; did I lock the door? Did I close the garage? Did I turn off the lights? Wonder no more, your smart home is here to save the day. Since your smart home digital assistant has a phone app, you can check all of these things and more with a few clicks of the phone. If you did forget to close the garage door, just simple click the close button and your assistant takes care of it for you. With the ever expanding list of smart devices in your home you can control almost any electronic device in your home from anywhere.
Secure your house and provide access for guests and workers.
Let’s face it, the world is not always a safe place to live. There are so many ways that things can go wrong it can be overwhelming to think about. A great use of smart home technology is to take some of that worry and stress and just get rid of it. How do you accomplish this, well a good place to start is with your home security system. According to the FBI home burglary is the most common threat to your home in the nationwide. Only 1 out of 10 home burglaries get solved and homes that do not have a security system are 3 times more likely to get burglarized. Home security systems have been getting cheaper and cheaper over the years and some now can even be used without subscription monitoring. Adding a home security system can give you the peace of mind to go about your day without worrying about what’s happening at home, but how does that make your life easier? What if you could take out your phone and turn your alarm system on or off without even being at your house? Then you could use that same phone to unlock your front door to let in the cleaners or the handyman; of course you would also want to lock the door and re-arm the alarm system after they leave. Well with the advances made in home security systems and door locks you can do all of those things and more.
Create a mesh network providing Wi-Fi access with no blind spots.
Do you get tired of hearing your kids complain about the Wi-Fi in your house? Streaming your TV or trying to surf the internet with a bad Wi-Fi connection can be enough to send most people into a rage. As your smart home device collection grows, so does the dependence on having a great Wi-Fi signal. Luckily this is a solvable problem with the right whole home mesh Wi-Fi system and there are many to choose from. What a whole home Wi-Fi mesh system does is create and network of routers strategically positioned around the home to provide maximum coverage to every room. Because with most of these systems you can add as many extenders as you need it really is a great option for ay home. Having a less frustrated family can make anyone’s life easier, this smart home upgrade is crucial for accomplishing a stress free life.
- Choosing the Right Locations for Your Wi-Fi Mesh Routers
- Choosing the Right Whole Home Wi-Fi Mesh System
Another great thing about building a smart home, some of the smart home features can help you get breaks on your homeowners insurance.