Imagine living an empowered life of comfort and ease where you have more time to enjoy pursuing hobbies and passions. Maybe you want to spend more quality time with family and friends. Practical Smart Home automation routines can help you achieve the dream of an automated life.
Let’s take a look at a full twenty four hour day of this automated living to see the impact of smart practical home automation routines.
It’s six o’clock in the morning and you are dreaming pleasant dreams warm in your cozy bed. You start hearing song birds chirping and singing softly and then gradually louder and a dim light becomes slowly brighter.
It’s as if the sunrise has slowly awakened you from your slumber, only it’s a simulation from your smart light and a Voice Assistant (Amazon Echo). This is your practical wake up routine that you created with automation. See Here
Now that you are completely reenergized from the night’s peaceful rest, you start your morning routine to prepare for work.
As you brush your teeth, put on makeup, and get dressed, you listen to your morning flash news briefing. You choose the news sources and Alexa will inform you of all the morning’s headlines. Also the daily forecast to determine what to wear.
Now you know what to wear after hearing the weather for the day and you dress accordingly.
Now that you’re dressed you grab your keys, lunch, purse, backpack, or briefcase, arm your home security system leaving and head out to the car.
As you pull away from the driveway, your location services enabled phone let’s your smart Nest Thermostat know you have left for the day and adjusts the temperature settings a few degrees to conserve energy while you’re away.
You ask your Echo Auto for a traffic report and then start your daily commute. You ask Alexa to play your audiobook and you enjoy listening while on your commute as the book plays through your car speakers through bluetooth.
During your morning routine at work while having your second cup of coffee and scrolling through emails, you get a notification on your phone that your robotic vacuum has completed its daily task of cleaning the carpets.
About mid-morning you decide to check in on your dog, so you open your camera app on your phone and call his name. He quickly comes to the sound of your voice and you push a button to give him a treat. You now go about your daily work.
Later when you are now halfway through the workday you get an alert on your phone from your doorbell cam. Someone has rang the doorbell. You quickly open the app to see it’s the FedEx driver with your package.
In real time you talk to him through the phone and over the speaker on the doorbell cam. You inform him that there’s a chance of rain later today. He can leave the package inside the front door.
You disarm your alarm system and remotely unlock the front door. He opens the door and places the package inside, closes the door and leaves. The door automatically locks when closed due to a custom rule created from your home automation system.
You then arm the system again from your smartwatch and go about your day at work.
Later in the afternoon about 3:00pm you get multiple notifications on your phone and smartwatch. These notifications let you know your kids are home from school. The notifications come from your cameras with person detection and facial recognition telling you who is there.
A notification from your home security system lets you know who disarmed the system. The pin code used was assigned to your kids.
After you receive the notifications, you drop into the living room on your Amazon Echo Show and ask the kids how their day went at school. You have a conversation about homework, chores, and supper and then get back to work knowing your kids are safe at home.
The work day is finished and as you get in your car and head for home, your smart home Nest thermostat adjusts automatically to your home settings so the home is comfortable when you arrive.
By the way, your electric robotic mower has mowed your yard while you were away. It can mow 24/7 day and night and is very quiet. It can even mow in the rain. Now you are free to spend time with the family instead of mowing.
Supper is over and the dishes are done and now you sit down to watch a movie with the family. You ask Alexa to start Movie Time and the main lights turn off in the house and your movie lights turn for viewing enhancement.
The TV turns on and goes to your favorite streaming service. You ask Alexa for a movie and you enjoy the evening with your family. Later in the night, the lights turn off at 10:00pm as created from your bedtime routine.
Now you are getting ready for bed, you brush your teeth, crawl into bed and ask Alexa to start your sleep routine. You say “Alexa, Sleepytime!”. The lights turn off and Alexa starts playing your favorite sleep sounds such as rain and thunder, or ocean waves. Your bedside fan also turns on for a gentle breeze.
You now drift off to sleep and dream peaceful dreams. Waking up in the morning to the sound of birds chirping. You feeling refreshed and ready to take on the world.
This might sound complicated or expensive, or even a little silly, but this is all possible today with smart devices you can pick up at your local electronics or big box stores.
You really can achieve a better quality of life and a peace of mind knowing you have the ability to control and monitor your own world with home automation.
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