Technology has come on leaps and bounds in the consumer electronics space, yet if you open the covers of a typical interior design magazine, you find very little evidence that anything has changed. While interior styles are modernized somewhat, technology is yet to make its way into everyday design. 

This trend is something of a tragedy. High tech gadgets can utterly transform what it means to live in a home. And while solutions exist, few people are actually using them, partly because they don’t know what’s out there. 

If You're Not Yet Automating Your Home, You're Missing A Trick

​It turns out that there are plenty of options for “automating” your home. Typically, what this means is that technology takes over the role of managing aspects of your household, allowing you to get on with your routine without having to fuss over the thermostat or set the lighting. Computers that lace your property do it all for you. Furthermore, the automated home is all controlled from your smartphone via the internet or a home assistant, like Amazon Echo. You just install the necessary app on your phone or set up your home hub to begin making instructions. You can either choose to set things manually or tell the software to get on and do things automatically, based on your behavior or location. So, for instance, you might ask your home hub to activate the heating if you’re cold or to maintain the temperature at a given level whenever you're in the house. It’s pretty sophisticated stuff. ​

Of course, these are just the canonical examples people use when discussing home automation. The tech, however, now offers much more than just the ability to set the central heating remotely. Here are some of the other ways that it is transforming lives. 
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Echo (4th Gen) | Spherical design with rich sound, smart home hub, and Alexa, amazon.com

Amazon Smart Thermostat – ENERGY STAR certified, DIY install, Works with Alexa, amazon.com

Install Automatic Gates & Garage Doors

Nobody wants to get out of their vehicle to open their gates or garage doors while the wind is howling and the rain pouring down. Now, though, you don’t have to. With home automation, all you do is drive your car up to your garage or the front of your property, and any barriers will automatically recognize your vehicle and lift to let you in. To install a system like this, all you need is a regular garage door company, and that’s it - it’s surprisingly simple. 
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​Arrange A Welcoming Party

When you arrive home from a busy day, you want to feel as if your home cares that you’ve returned. Well, with home automation solutions, you can do precisely that with lighting. 

A variety of companies now make smart lights - lighting systems that you can control via an app on your phone using your home’s WiFi system. You can rig this in such a way that the moment you walk through the front door, the lights come to life, lighting the way as you move from room to room. 

Get A Laundry Text

Finally, you can now get smart appliances that will text you when your laundry is done. Same with your dishwasher. How cool is that? 

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