You’re more familiar with smart home tech than you think!
A common misconception is that having a smart home means users must learn how to operate a complicated new system. However, today’s smart home installations are based on technology consumers are already familiar with and know how to use.
Consider the smartphone or tablet, ubiquitous in most homes and workplaces. According to Statista, in 2019 55.5 million people in the UK owned a smartphone and almost every UK resident between 16 and 54 were smartphone owners. And research by Deloitte suggests that 90% of adults in the UK own a smartphone and 95% of these adults use their device daily.
Consequently, the UK population across many different generations can navigate their way around different apps on their devices to help them through their day. Communications, maps and directions, social media feeds (for work or entertainment) and problem solving are all intuitively accessed and controlled to deliver the results users need and desire. Similarly, smart devices can remind us of appointments, tasks, birthdays, and other important waypoints, all automatically enacted once the system has been set to a certain set of preferences and needs.
Modern smart homes are similarly app driven, so the best way to think of them is like one huge smart device. They are created to be controlled by a specific person or group and to also automatically service their needs by carrying out automated tasks in the background that have been programmed in by an Avande Select expert.
In many ways the smart homes of today are easier to control than other technologies that the general population are already familiar with. Everything is presented in a simple icon-based app that allows real time, intuitive control of every aspect of a home. Want to watch TV? Hit the TV icon. Adjust the lights? Hit the light bulb icon in the same app.
If users have ever owned or even just used a smartphone/device for a short time, they can control their new smart home with ease. One of the things that the smart home industry prides itself on is making interacting with the system humancentric and intuitive. The truth is you don’t have to understand what is happening in the ‘back-end’ in the same way that you don’t need to understand what is happening under the bonnet of a car to drive one.
If there is ever any type of issue or questions about our systems, our expert technicians stand ready to help.
Greater control
Ease of use is also promoted by other technologies that are familiar to most end users. If a wall mounted light switch is not a challenge to operate, then our smart home systems aren’t either.
In addition to app control, most smart homes will have wall mounted controllers offering instant management of the home’s systems. Again using obvious and intuitive icons to access the different parts of the system. These wall mounted controllers can be ‘push button’, much like a traditional light switch, or offer control over a small screen similar to a smart device, but in an always available wall mounted version.
With the electronic versions obvious icons access different parts of the system and for the switch variety each one is clearly labelled.
Controlling parts of buildings using switches or a button is one of the oldest technologies present in homes, ever since domestic properties were furnished with artificial light in fact. The modern smart home controller is merely an extension of this already familiar system.
Greater ease
Ease of use is also promoted by other technologies that are familiar to most end users. If a wall mounted light switch is not a challenge to operate, then our smart home systems aren’t either.
In addition to app control, most smart homes will have wall mounted controllers offering instant management of the home’s systems. Again using obvious and intuitive icons to access the different parts of the system. These wall mounted controllers can be ‘push button’, much like a traditional light switch, or offer control over a small screen similar to a smart device, but in an always available wall mounted version.
With the electronic versions obvious icons access different parts of the system and for the switch variety each one is clearly labelled.
Controlling parts of buildings using switches or a button is one of the oldest technologies present in homes, ever since domestic properties were furnished with artificial light in fact. The modern smart home controller is merely an extension of this already familiar system.
Did you know?
- Smart home technology is app/icon based. Consumers already know how to use it
- Avande Select systems are easy to order from a bespoke build online site unique to each building, dwelling and customer
- Lifelong support is provided for all Avande Select Systems
- Home automation has minimal or a positive aesthetic impact on interiors
- Home automation delivers efficiency and control, as well as fun
