What is smart housing? What are the advantages of the connected home? What advice do you have before installation? Here are some answers.
The arrival of smartphones and the explosion of new technologies (smartphones, tablets, laptops, connected objects) has democratized and simplified the old “home automation”, which can today adapt to all needs to simplify our life at an affordable cost. This sector, which was already booming, saw its sales increase during the recent confinement.
What is smart housing?
It is a dwelling where various equipment can be remotely controlled and automated thanks to an application. This connected equipment may be heating via a connected thermostat, light via bulbs or connected sockets, roller shutters, the refrigerator, the lock of your home, your water meter.
Thanks to the sensors integrated into these connected objects, and a dedicated application, your smartphone (or tablet) becomes the remote control that controls your home.
This technology is becoming more and more part of our daily lives. It adapts to our needs to facilitate many of our daily uses for housing and the person, particularly e-health (bracelets, watches, refrigerator, water meter). The promises of our connected home:
Whatever their generation, the American aspire to live tomorrow in smart housing. Whether we are talking about the house of the future, connected house or home automation, these new uses around the habitat will develop strongly.
Smart Housing is particularly appealing to seniors who have already integrated some new solutions into their homes. Indeed, more and more older people integrate these new technologies when changing residence or adapting their accommodation.
A study carried out by (Research Center for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions) informs us that 55% of seniors would be ready to invest in smart housing to improve their quality of life at home.
So that in World today, 94% of housing for the elderly is not adapted to their advancing age. This equipment could play a major role in improving the quality of life of seniors in their homes, associated with renovation work adaptation and accessibility of housing.
There is no doubt that the Covid 19 post-containment period, which is beginning, will see the development of these connected objects in the home; voice assistants from Orange, Amazon, Google, connected locks or even connected doorbells.
These devices require no contact have already experienced strong growth during confinement for their usage benefits.
What are the benefits of Smart housing?
The main purpose of a smart housing or apartment is to simplify your life and has many daily advantages around 5 features:
- Ensuring better security in your home
- Saving you energy
- Improving your comfort and quality of life
- Preventing and monitoring your health
- Promoting communication with your loved ones and external services while saving you time
Some examples of use:
Comfort and quality of life:
You can program the shutters in all the rooms when you wake up, the towel dryer in the bathroom a few minutes before the shower, the overall temperature is set at 22° when you get home before you go to bed in the evening the light goes out in all the rooms.
You can also connect the outside of your house: the garden, swimming pool, and garage can benefit. Your garage door can open when you drive in your car, and your electric car can even charge itself!
Financial economy:
Depending on your specific needs, you can adjust your consumption more precisely, allowing you to save energy and money.
Security and tranquillity:
You can control and automate certain tasks such as closing electric shutters, your gate, simulate a presence and be alerted in the event of an intrusion, cut off the water supply in the event of a leak, notify dedicated services in the event of fall or discomfort, detect smoke, trigger presence detectors, carry out video surveillance.
Health and wellbeing:
Remote monitoring, sensors integrated into the floor coverings can notify dedicated services in the event of a fall or discomfort. Desmon Tres and connected objects can help you keep you in good shape or medically (follow our fitness and health indicators, receive medical data, regulate our treatments, alert our medical team, contact relatives in the event of loss of bearings, take medical measures.
Communication and social connection:
Voice assistants and the control of household appliances can allow us to stay at home quietly and contact outside local services, our family and those around us from our sofa.
What are the tips before an installation?
- take advantage of the adaptation of your accommodation or a change of accommodation to carry out a complete installation,
- study the aid available
- in your current home, do not hesitate to install this equipment as you go, room by room, or by functionality,
- there is no point in installing features that you will not use, and remember to preserve manual access in the event of a breakdown,
- Direct your purchases towards responsible and professional brands and check with your service provider the security of your data and the safe use of each object (for example, do not use your voice speakers management of the opening/closing of locks to measure security).
What budget for a SMART HOUSING?
To get a fair idea of your final budget, depending on the surface area of your home, your needs and the elements you want to connect (voice assistant, heating, lighting, gate, shutters, alarm, video assistance, lock, air conditioning,), you should contact professionals specializing in home automation and ask them for detailed quotes.
So connected, not connected? The question no longer arises. Your home will be increasingly equipped with IoT (internet of things) devices and objects to simplify your daily life and many other uses and services that we can’t even imagine yet!
What is Arcbazar?
Arcbazar is a business model that connects space owners and designers through architectural competitions. Space Owners benefit because they get multiple design solutions at an affordable cost. Designers benefit because they win cash, improve their portfolios, and step into the professional World through real and exciting design challenges.
How Arcbazar Works:
A renovation job, an addition to the home, modelling of retail space, design of an entire family home, a landscape project, a mixed-use development, or any other architectural design project. The Space owner describes the project, uploads images, and provides basic dimensions.
At Arcbazar, designers can sign-up to participate in these enlisted design challenges. Clients eventually set the award money, the project timeline, and rank all design submissions. Arcbazar then distributes the award money among the first three ranked winners.