Technology can improve and enhance our lives. More people buy smart home devices to enjoy a more convenient and comfortable life. But what is a smart home, and what are smart home devices?

This article will talk about smart homes, smart devices, future trends of smart home devices, and the five best smart home devices to help improve your quality of life.

What is a smart home?

Imagine that all the lights come on automatically at sunset. Sounds pretty convenient and smart. That's the magic of a smart home.

A smart home is where the Internet of Things (IoT) devices communicate to create an integrated home system. Connect your smart devices and appliances to your home WiFi to communicate. You can run your entire smart home ecosystem from one app or even voice control.

Some people would argue that it is a smart home if you replace the home appliances with technology products. If you can't make life easier with smart devices, there's no point in buying smart home devices.

What is a smart home device?

Before building a smart home, we first need to understand the definition of smart home devices. Smart home devices should be "Convenient," "Real-time," and "Secure."

1. Convenient: Your home devices are automated. Set up an automated system. Your home devices can turn on/off at specific times or under specific conditions. This automation is designed to improve your quality of life.
2. Real-time: Remotely control your home devices anytime, anywhere you want. Even if you are not at home, you can remotely turn on and off home devices such as kitchen appliances, dehumidifiers, and lights. It allows you to have a comfortable indoor environment while saving water and electricity bills.
3. Secure: Protect your home at all times and shorten the reaction time to danger. For example, smart home security cameras monitor your home and send you instant alerts when something happens. They can sound an alarm to scare away unwanted visitors. With the AI-driven person detection function, smart home cameras can also detect suspicious people and send you real-time notifications.

What is the future of smart home devices?

As AI technology is integrated into smart home devices, dozens of companies like Google, Apple, and Samsung have rolled out smart home platforms. Smart homes will become more intelligent, with more functions across multiple products. More brands are developing and promoting connectivity standards to increase compatibility among smart homes.

 

5 Tips for Buying High-Quality Smart Home Devices

[Smart Home Devices Purchase Tip 1: Right Connection Protocol]

There are many different wireless technologies for IoT. WiFi is the most widely used, while other protocols include Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and sub GHz. Connecting your IoT devices to your home WiFi network is simple and easy. If you have to use a different protocol, check out how it works with your devices. Make sure you choose the one that's right for your home. Refer to Technologies That Make Life Smart to learn more.

[Smart Home Devices Purchase Tip 2: Stable Working Status]

You want to ensure that whatever connection protocol you use is stable at all times. Your smart devices cannot be powered off or dropped frequently. Maintaining a stable connection between smart home devices and the app is essential.

[Smart Home Devices Purchase Tip 3: Friendly User Experience]

User experience is vital when considering a smart home device you will use every day. Is it easy to set up and manage? Does it support Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or HomeKit to control your devices using voice commands? Is the app intuitive enough?

[Smart Home Devices Purchase Tip 4: Guaranteed Certification]

Any product is easy to copy. The market is full of fake and shoddy products. These products appear indistinguishable from the outside. However, they do not match the stringent safety standards held by reputable companies.

[Smart Home Devices Purchase Tip 5: Flame-Retardant Materials]

Electric plugs carry high electrical loads, so their flame retardancy is an important influencing factor. Smart devices that use high-quality flame retardant materials in their construction are recommended.

 

The Best Smart Home Devices for 2022

Your home is never more than a few taps away with smart devices.

Best Smart Plug: Tapo P110

A smart plug is the easiest first step into the smart home ecosystem. Smart plugs give you complete control over the connected devices, even when away from home. You can check if everything is off or on wherever you are and remotely manage your "dumb" appliances.

Tapo P110 has an unbeatable price. It can monitor real-time power consumption and energy spending via the Tapo app to save smarter by managing your appliances for when electricity is cheaper. It can be connected to Amazon Alexa or Google voice assistant for voice control, set schedules and timers, and group devices for one-tap control.

Best Indoor and Outdoor Home Cameras: Indoor (Tapo C210) & Outdoor (Tapo C320WS)

It's essential to monitor your home for safety when away from home. It is also helpful to watch pets or children when we have to leave the room they are in temporarily.

Tapo offers various models with Full HD and HD resolutions. Among indoor cameras, the Tapo C210 features a pan/tilt motion, allowing you to rotate the camera horizontally and vertically. You can capture every detail in a 3MP ultra-high definition. They support smart detection, including Motion Detection, Person Detection, Baby Detection, and Custom Privacy Zones.

For outdoor cameras, we have the Tapo C320WS. It has a high-sensitive starlight sensor that captures 2K QHD images even in low-light conditions and a white light that ensures vivid full-color sight at night.

Best Smart WiFi Lighting: Smart Bulb Tapo L530 & Smart LED Light Strip Tapo L920

Smart home lighting allows you to tailor the perfect ambiance by setting brightness, temperature, and even light color. It can be controlled from an app or voice commands using Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.

The Tapo L530 smart bulb allows you to quickly create scenes and everyday life by setting brightness, temperature, and color, with 16,000,000 shades. You can also save your favorite lighting as a setting for future activities. The Sunrise and Sunset Modes help automatically activate your light according to your time zone.

The Tapo L920 smart light strip immerses you with dynamic light effects. You can also fill your senses via its Sync-to-Sound mode. The 50 separate color zones provide nearly infinite customizable color opportunities to bring vibrant joy to your life. Cut it to whatever length you want and attach it to any surface with the 3M peel-and-stick adhesive.

Have you found your favorite lighting for watching movies? Save it as a setting to select it for future movie nights. Customize modes for different moods.