This document discusses smart homes, including:
- Smart homes automate home environments using communicating technology units controlled by central software or gateway.
- Home automation has progressed from single gateways to introducing artificial intelligence and smart robots.
- Smart homes offer benefits like improved quality of life, reduced costs and consumption, and increased efficiency and monitoring. Features include security, lighting, heating/cooling, and more.
- Considerations for smart home systems include mobile apps, energy management, compatibility, security, and communication protocols. Many suppliers offer solutions globally including in the UAE.
2. SmaRt hOme
Smart home is the automation process to manage and control premises
environment with technology elements or units that are enabled to
communicated with a central unit or gateway thought a control entity of
software, panel, web management interface etc. with objective to simplify
the life, reduce the cost, efficiency of technology use and automation.
Home automation went through different stages, starting with central
machine or gateway controlling the unites, then the introduction of artificial
intelligent unites that support any other vender unites and the introduction of
smart robots which can be delegated to perform a task
3. Why SmaRt hOme
Make Life Better
Quality Improvements
Proactive
Reduce Consumption
Management Efficiency
Cost Savings
Monitoring
4. SmaRt hOme Main Features
Doors &
Gates
Security &
Access
Heating
&
Cooling
Media
Smoke
Detector
Lighting Video Cameras
Triger
for
action
Safety
Cleaning
Plant
Management
Motion
Sensor
Smart Curtains Trackers
Health
Garage
Smart
Assistant
* The entities that can be part of smart home are unlimited
6. System Features to Consider
Mobile
Application
Energy
Management
User Friendly
Support
Voice
Command
Touch Screen
Scheduling
Compatibility Personalization
Security
Standards
APIs
8. Top SBC–Smart Board Controller
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Raspberry Pi
Beagle Bone Black
ODROID-C1
UDOO Dual Basic
Radxa Rock2 Square
NanoPC-T1
MinnowBoard MAX
ODROID-XU4
pcDuino4 Set-Top Box
Banana Pi
Cubieboard4
A single-board
computer (SBC) is a
complete small
computer built on a
single circuit board,
with main features
required of a
functional computer
which made as
demonstration or
development
systems, for
educational systems
and now heavily
used for home
automation with
limitless possibilities
10. Top Home Voice Assistant Devices
Each one of the voice assistance has different benefits of artificial intelligence and
sure can control home appliances by voice command and some will follow
Google will have an advantage of its search and applications integration
Amazon will have an advantage of its store and online shopping
Microsoft will have an advantage of its own search and OS management
Apple will have an advantage of iSO applications management
Amazon
Alexa
Google
Home
Apple
HomePod
Microsoft
Cortana
12. SmaRt hOme by UAE Operators
Etisalat
Etisalat has a partnership with Belkin where they provide a smart home solutions
du
du has a partnership with Fibaro where they provide a smart home solutions in
addition to voice assistance
Both operators proving end to end smart home solutions