Smart Home hubs are devices that easily connect to your home Wi-Fi providing a central command for a variety of smart sensors.
Why is this important for me to know?
A limited way to approach home automation is to add single-function sensors one at a time with separate smart phone apps. Say, a smart thermostat, electronic door lock or motion switched lights, each with their own complementary phone app.
As you add devices, jumping from one app to another on your smart phone to turn on lights or adjust your thermostat becomes a more and more tedious process.
A hub ties all of these devices together, providing one app to control everything. And this is a very good thing indeed…
Rules can be setup linking the functionality of each device together based on events like the time of day, or your arrival home.
For example, a sensor can detect when you arrive home and a hub can direct a door to unlock, lights to turn on and the thermostat to adjust. At bedtime, the hub can turn down the lights and thermostat and send you an alert if the garage door or any windows are open.
Motion sensors can trigger the hub to turn on lights, a security camera and send out alerts.
The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
A smart home hub can be configured to automate many or all of the features you desire, instead of you manually controlling each individual device and function via your phone.
How do Smart Home hubs work?
Smart home hubs work on wireless technology. Similar to Wi-Fi (and Bluetooth), there are several wireless communication protocols manufactures of smart devices use to connect their gadget to the internet.
Some smart devices speak a different wireless language than others.
A hub sitting in the middle acts as a translator allowing all these foreigners to communicate and work together to add convenience to your living space.
Why are different wireless standards used?
For a variety of reasons, ultimately this is good because with a hub, we consumers benefit for the extra features each wireless protocol brings.
The more of these languages a hub can speak, the more versatile it becomes:
Why is this important for me to know?
A limited way to approach home automation is to add single-function sensors one at a time with separate smart phone apps. Say, a smart thermostat, electronic door lock or motion switched lights, each with their own complementary phone app.
As you add devices, jumping from one app to another on your smart phone to turn on lights or adjust your thermostat becomes a more and more tedious process.
A hub ties all of these devices together, providing one app to control everything. And this is a very good thing indeed…
Rules can be setup linking the functionality of each device together based on events like the time of day, or your arrival home.
For example, a sensor can detect when you arrive home and a hub can direct a door to unlock, lights to turn on and the thermostat to adjust. At bedtime, the hub can turn down the lights and thermostat and send you an alert if the garage door or any windows are open.
Motion sensors can trigger the hub to turn on lights, a security camera and send out alerts.
The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
A smart home hub can be configured to automate many or all of the features you desire, instead of you manually controlling each individual device and function via your phone.
How do Smart Home hubs work?
Smart home hubs work on wireless technology. Similar to Wi-Fi (and Bluetooth), there are several wireless communication protocols manufactures of smart devices use to connect their gadget to the internet.
Some smart devices speak a different wireless language than others.
A hub sitting in the middle acts as a translator allowing all these foreigners to communicate and work together to add convenience to your living space.
Why are different wireless standards used?
For a variety of reasons, ultimately this is good because with a hub, we consumers benefit for the extra features each wireless protocol brings.
The more of these languages a hub can speak, the more versatile it becomes:
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