5 Big Trends Shaping the Future of Home Automation
Home automation systems have been available for some time, delivering a host of lifestyle-enriching benefits to families. Like any technology, the capabilities of these high-tech household amenities have evolved and matured over time, making them a more seamless, natural part of a home environment. Even voice control is becoming more natural than ever before.
Sage AV has experienced and lived the remarkable transformation from basic control systems to uber-intelligent, self-aware, comprehensive automation solutions that address the needs of people with all budget levels today. With our daily work with clients and trade partners, we know which features are most requested and making a real difference in the way people live, work and enjoy their homes.
Here is a list of our Top 5 Automation Trends shaping home environments today:
Smart Power
As the number of electronic devices in homes continues grow, your local power grid struggles to feed stable, consistent electricity to your home. This results in surges, spikes, sags and voltage irregularities which can damage your home’s electronic equipment. Sure, those ubiquitous surge strips plugged in behind entertainment centers and home office desks are helpful, but they address only a small fraction of the overall problem and protect only a handful of electronic components. The best power management solution is a system that not only protects against surges and provides battery backup during power outages, but also regulates and conditions electrical voltage for the safe and optimum operation of all devices.
Intelligent Lighting
Smart bulbs. Natural Lighting. It may be hard to believe something as “basic” as lighting is on-trend. Yet it has quickly become one of the most impactful, versatile and lifestyle-enriching automation features to date. Besides turning on and off automatically at preset times, a home’s lights can now intelligently react to motion, sunlight, weather and even the activities of other home devices. With the ability to dim, brighten and incorporate colored light sources, automated illumination enhances both indoor and outdoor environments, offering greater convenience, aesthetics, energy efficiency and peace of mind. At Sage AV, we believe well-designed and well-choreographed lighting never goes out of style.
Single-App Setup
Smartphone apps have streamlined nearly every aspect of our lives from photos to seeing a package arrive. It can do the same for the control of electronic devices in and outside your home. Smart thermostats, light switches, even AV equipment and designer motorized window shades often come with their own independent app. It’s handy, sure, but at a certain point, scrolling through multiple apps to prepare the house for your arrival and departure gets cumbersome. We liken it to the coffee table that used to have 6 or more remotes on it that everyone had to understand!
With our team’s expertise, multiple individual apps can be consolidated under a single, universal app that is named the way you want – and works the way you want. This streamlines the experience and makes monitoring and managing a home simpler, more convenient and more powerful.
Artificial Intelligence
Speaking with virtual assistance has become common practice. From reciting jokes, reading recipes and answering mathematical questions to relaying commands to smart light switches, electronic locks and more, these AI-driven systems have simplified the management of homes tremendously. And, they have advanced.
We’re quickly approaching the next phase in AI, where devices can learn the patterns and behaviors of families within a private system and adjust their operations accordingly. Instead of determining a schedule for lights to follow, you can let the internal AI engine of an automation system figure it out for you. Energy usage data aggregated and analyzed by AI can dictate when and at what setting your home should be for maximum energy savings and comfort. The beauty? You don’t even have to think about it. AI has a way to go, but it has come extremely far. And we see it as a key piece of the world of automation related to efficiency and adaptability.
Predictive Maintenance
Just as your furnace or other home systems need routine service, so too does your automation system. Fortunately, technology now enables our team at Sage AV to understand many things before they happen and resolve technical issues remotely without touching a thing. You reduce scheduling onsite visits from our technicians or even contact us with any questions. Automation and control systems can now notify us of issues. We can fix it quickly, efficiently and privately so there’s minimal to no downtime or inconvenience.
These trends reflect an exciting shift towards more integrated and intelligent home automation solutions. Sage AV embraces the technological progression, and we evaluate things as they come to market to ensure you receive the best solution. We offer a range of smart, future-ready automation solutions to ensure your home or office is as convenient, safe and enjoyable as possible.
