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Personalize Your Smart Home for The Ultimate Automated Lifestyle
Personalize Your Smart Home for The Ultimate Automated Lifestyle
No one wants a cookie-cutter house; different families have different needs and preferences, and what works in one home may not be the right choice for another home. The same is true of home automation systems: You may be looking for someone to install a custom home theater or whole-home audio system, while your neighbors may be more interested in outdoor audio or lighting control.
Furthermore, different homes pose different challenges in terms of installation, wiring and integration. A one-size-fits-all approach to designing a smart home is not going to give you an optimal result. By personalizing your smart home, though, you can create a system that’s better suited to your needs and preferences, and it will likely work better, too.
That’s why we want to talk to you about all the ways you can personalize your Minneapolis, MN, smart home. Want to know more? Keep reading.
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USER EXPERIENCE
While the software that runs your devices is important, what matters more is the experience of using that software to manage your devices. A home control system that’s overly convoluted makes it less likely that you’ll actually use it, which means all that time and money will have been wasted.
For a better approach, make sure you’re asking the right questions when you’re in the design phase of the project. Instead of focusing on which devices or components you want, figure out what you want your system to do and how you can make it fit your and your family’s lifestyle. Your automation system should account for your daily routines, including your commute to and from work.
Once everything has been installed, it’s important to ask that your integrator take some time to thoroughly demonstrate how everything works in your system. In fact, have your whole family take part; your system should be easy enough to use that even the younger (or elderly) members of your household can handle it.
Lastly, make sure your integrator presents their proposal in person so they can walk you through their vision for the project. This helps ensure that you don’t end up with features you don’t want or need, or without features you asked for.
INTEGRATION
A smart home only works as well as everything within that home is integrated. You may have a home control system that manages every device in your house, but if those devices aren’t integrated, then you’ll be jumping back and forth between multiple menus to accomplish relatively simple tasks.
For example, you may want your system to turn on your kitchen lights, fire up your favorite Spotify playlist and adjust the temperature when you come home from work. Without proper integration, doing this could involve multiple steps and menus to adjust three devices. If everything is integrated properly, though, you can press one button and have all three tasks accomplished in seconds.
Better yet, your system should know when you come home every day and take these actions automatically. The goal of building a smart home is to simplify and enhance your life, and there’s no better way to do that than to have your devices do what you want without you having to issue a single command.
Are you ready to see what the smart home life looks like, or does your system need streamlining? Call us today at (612) 353-5087. You can also fill out our contact form or click on the chat box at the bottom of your browser.