What NJ Architects Are Saying About How to Incorporate the Latest Smart Home Tools and Designs
Mike Sweebe • Feb 26, 2020
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Whether you are building a new home, adding on to your existing house, or looking to remodel, upgrading to smart home technology can improve your life and lower your bills. Residential architects in NJ are using these tools more frequently in their designs as consumers see the value they add. What are smart home tools, and how can they be incorporated into the design and build of your home? 

Understanding Smart Home Tools and Technology

Smart devices are those that connect to each other or the wider world via the internet. When appliances, gadgets, and other technology can send information, take specific commands, and communicate, then life becomes more comfortable and your home runs more efficiently. Today, smart tools include everything from lights to doorbells, from appliances to clocks.

These types of features allow for home automation, which enables you to control various features and functions in your home with just the press of a button. Say you are playing with your kids but need to get dinner started. Smart technologies can allow you to start appliances, like a stove or crockpot using an enabled device, like your phone, from wherever you may be. Life in New Jersey is busy, these technologies can make your life easier.

What Smart Tools do New Jersey Architecture Firms Recommend?

We love technology that makes your life easier, helps you save money, and keeps your attention where you want it to be, which is making memories, not managing your house. The best smart tools are those that complement your lifestyle and automate tasks that take up time in your regular schedule. For example, if you have a pet, then investing in a smart feeder ensures that your four-legged friend gets fed on time while managing his portions. It can even order more food for you when you are running low.

Other smart design features cater to your entire home and can help save you money, too. A Wi-fi enabled, learning thermostat can make sure that you and your loved ones stay comfortable, that your house is protected from harsh weather, and that your utilities remain low. You can control the temperature of your home from wherever you are, which means you can keep the temperature low when no one is home and adjust the system using your phone as you head back home. Smart thermostats also alert you to potential problems, so you don’t have to wait until your pipes burst to find out your furnace when out. 

Also, New Jersey architecture increasingly includes smart technologies that control and monitor home security. Smart locks can allow children, neighbors, or trusted friends into your home via keypad or smartphone without the need to share keys. Indoor and outdoor surveillance cameras can help you keep an eye on your home and loved ones when you are away, too. 

Smart lighting allows you to control the lights in your home from your enabled device, including when you aren’t home. The latest offerings in this category even enable you to program the brightness and color of each bulb, so you can have the exact ambiance you want in each room. And you won’t have to come home to a dark house ever again!

Smart technologies are available to help you manage your sprinkler system, to control the heating and air vents in every room of your home, to detect leaks in at-risk areas of your house, and to open and close blinds for light and privacy. You can even find smart versions of kitchen gadgets and small appliances, as well as larger electronics like refrigerators and stoves. 

Talk with your residential architect about how smart home technologies can improve your home’s design and function and what value they can offer to your family. 

 

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