After finishing all of the essential tasks that come with moving into a new home, it’s time to think about personalization and all of the non-essential features you want to include in your home. When thinking about this, you’ve probably come across the idea of installing some smart home devices. If you’re still unclear on the reasons to invest in smart home features, you’re in luck. There are plenty of them; we’ll list the top ones in this article. With the immense utility they bring, it’s understandable why they’re rising in popularity. They are becoming more affordable each day, and pretty soon, it will be almost impossible to overlook their importance.
Automation makes things a lot easier
One of the biggest reasons to invest in smart home features is that you can make your daily routine more effortless with them. Your morning coffee can be ready the moment your alarm rings. Your fridge can suggest recipes using the items it registers are about to expire. And, of course, with the help of smart speakers and other similar hubs, you can use voice controls or your phone to play music, turn the lights off in your house from anywhere in the world, or lock the front door if you forget to. Smart home features simply make life more effortless by increasing the flow of your daily routine and saving you time.
They can also positively affect your and your family’s health. Your smart fridge can tell you what you’re missing in your diet. Many devices help patients with chronic ailments like diabetes which connect the entire family with a health database that you can also let your doctor access. And some devices can help you keep up with healthy habits. This can include things like keeping up with your sleep schedule or workout regimen.
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Reduced utility bills
It’s pretty obvious how an energy-efficient smart home device can save you some money on your electricity bill. But the story doesn’t stop there. Some smart home features are designed to reduce your utility bills. Let’s go through some of the most common ways that smart home features can lower your bills:
- Remotely control everything. The ability to control every electrical device from your phone is a power that you shouldn’t underestimate. For example, if you forget to turn off the lights before you leave the house, you don’t have to worry about them burning all day and driving up the electric bill;
- Energy-saving programs. Things like automated thermostats have programs designed to save energy. They do this by automatically turning off the heating/ac when the temperature of your choice is reached and then just working on upkeep by turning it on again if necessary. Some of the even more advanced ones learn from your behavior patterns and self-program to attend to your needs while reducing all unnecessary use;
- Preserving water. With things like a smart sprinkler system, you can decide whether you need to turn them on based on data like the weather forecast. And, of course, there are the real life-savers – leak sensors you can put on your pipes.
From saving money on your bills to preserving natural sources and being more sustainable in your daily life, the reasons to invest in smart home features when it comes to this are innumerable. You can accurately track your monthly consumption and act accordingly with the right mix of devices.
Selling your home
Apart from the long-term money-saving benefits of investing in smart home features, they also bring benefits when selling your property. Every home you buy is, in one way or another, an investment. And one of the best ways to ensure that you’ll be getting a positive return on that investment is by installing smart home features.
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Let’s take buying a home in Brooklyn as an example. If you’re in the process of buying your first one, there are many things you should look for. And, in recent years, one of those many things has become a smart home. Many people now are looking for a move-in ready first home. And the definition of that kind of home has been extended to include smart home features. A survey showed that an astounding 82% of real estate agents said that having smart home features in a home helped “streamline” a sale.
As you can see, having smart home features in your home:
- Increases its value;
- Draws in more potential buyers;
- Makes selling your home a much faster and easier process.
Added security to your home
Home security is a significant advantage of smart home features that turns most consumers toward them. Thanks to devices like smart locks and doorbells with cameras and affordable smart security cameras (which also have energy-preserving modes that only turn on when they sense movement), home security has become a realistic option for everyone. Securing your home can be as simple as sticking small sensors on the sides of your doors and windows that beep every time they open.
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Of course, home security doesn’t just mean protection from potential burglars. It also means ensuring safety from house fires since you know you didn’t leave the stove on. As long as you keep your wi-fi network secure, your home will be safer with smart home features.
To conclude
As you can see, there are many reasons to invest in smart home features. They offer many advantages. Some of those advantages are noticeable immediately, while others are more apparent in the long term. Seeing as they are becoming more affordable on a daily basis and getting better at an even faster rate, it’s obvious what our future looks like. Suppose you want to avoid making your home look like a completely futuristic space. In that case, you can always offset the tech aspects of your home’s design with some low-maintenance indoor plants or a colorful interior design model. But trying to skip out on them altogether will not bode well for the future.
