Home-niscient: home automation utopia here at last
Now they have infiltrated many aspects of our everyday life, connected objects are also reaching into our homes through home automation systems. Thanks to these connected objects, interacting with our environment or controlling our home remotely via a cellphone, PC or tablet is becoming feasible.
Safety, comfort, security: home tweet home
“Nowadays, consumers get involved with home automation via security. Securing the home is a crucial expectation. They agree to devote some budget to this, and this expectation becomes the starting point for a home automation system more geared to comfort”, explains Niama Esqualli, Head of Partnerships at Orange Smart Home solutions.
In fact, there are many applications for connected objects in home security and safety. This starts with staying connected to home when away and ensuring peace of mind by being notified if anything out of the ordinary happens, but it also entails being able to see inside your home on your tablet or smartphone, or contacting a security system in case of a break-in and suchlike.
But that’s not all, in terms of applications:
- Comfort: you can now make your heating switch on remotely before heading home or program it to switch on depending on the outside temperature, or even close all the shutters without getting out of your armchair.
- Health: for people at home, as Niama Esqalli points out, “health is a major concern, particularly for older people who want to remain in their home. You could envisage installing sensors in a home in line with a specific medical condition. For example, to detect falls for someone prone to losing their balance”.
With increasingly higher home bandwidth and a multiplicity of screens, the home offers a favorable habitat for connected objects, where they can set up unrestrictedly
Orange Homelive, at the heart of scalable home automation
With Homelive, Orange offers a solution for controlling home objects and services very simply from a cellphone, tablet or PC, to manage your home at all time, wherever you are and with whatever internet service provider you have chosen. At the heart of this offer is a mobile application associated with a whole range of connected objects to choose in line with your needs: smoke detectors, window and door opening sensors, motion detectors, temperature and light sensors, etc.
Homelive is now in its infancy, but by its very design it is destined for development, enhancement and extension with new connected objects. New fields, such as well-being or controlling energy consumption, will also be explored.
