Modern Home Technologies: 6 Ideas to Design a High-Tech Smart House
Luxury living and technology have always gone hand in hand.
From the sophisticated ‘hypocaust’ heating systems used in the villas of ancient Pompeii, to the ornate mechanical clocks adorning Renaissance-era palaces, cutting-edge conveniences have been an integral part of what defines living well. Now, today’s cutting-edge modern home technologies also include smart functionalities, resulting in the highest standard of convenience and elegance the world has ever known.
But, of course, not every smart solution is made equal. So, we’ve created this list of the six best high-tech home technologies for creating a more luxurious and modern standard of living. No gimmicks, just golden solutions to make your life at home better.
1. Smart Locks and Cameras
When smart home owners are queried about the technologies they love most, smart locks and home video surveillance cameras consistently top the list. Together, these devices provide comprehensive home monitoring, allowing homeowners to instantly verify a visitor’s identity, grant or revoke access, track activity, and more, whether in person or remotely from any phone or tablet.
2. Smart Lights with Motion Sensors
Smart technology has elevated the utility and convenience of motion-activated lighting. With a little design help from a smart home integrator, modern smart home owners can achieve effortless and seamless illumination. Think layers of soft light that brighten and dim automatically as you move from room to room, and recessed linear lighting that turns on automatically for nighttime bathroom trips, with both color and intensity customized to minimize sleep disruption. In other words, lights that are perfectly adapted to you.
3. Smart Climate Management
Third on our list is smart climate management, or smart thermostats. These devices provide modern smart houses with constant comfort and energy savings. With multiple sensors spaced throughout the home, conditions can be calibrated to optimize the comfort of specific rooms, such as keeping your bedroom comfortably cool as you sleep. They can also be programmed to make adjustments according to your activity or sleep schedule, such as automatically reducing climate controls when the house is unoccupied, and resuming them shortly before your return.
4. Automated Blinds
Automated blinds work with smart lighting and smart climate management to create a technology trifecta for perfecting the home environment. They eliminate the perpetual hassle of raising, opening, drawing, and lowering, automatically protecting privacy and shepherding in sunshine according to your preferences. No more scrambling for cords or struggling with imbalanced drawstrings - just quiet, quick adjustments you never even need to leave your seat to complete.
5. Whole Home Audio
A smart home that has been pre-wired to support whole home, built-in audio ensures you never miss a beat – literally. Your favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks move with you as you go from room to room, with each speaker selected, positioned, and installed to ensure optimized whole-home coverage and audio quality.
To learn more about how smart, modern whole home audio works, check out our interview with Jim Moran of Origin Acoustics.
6. Home Automation Controllers
Finally, this entry may be less likely to get a mention from fans of modern house technology, but that’s not because it isn’t important. In fact, it’s fundamental to getting the most out of each system we’ve already listed. It’s the backbone that holds all of a modern house’s technology together and provides the easy, intuitive access that makes these conveniences actually convenient. It is the home automation controller.
A top-quality, luxury smart home automation controller is what grants you full access to and control of your smart devices. It’s what enables you to create complex automations that make it feel as though your home is reacting intelligently to your needs. So, while its contributions may not be as instantly recognizable as your lights, locks, or speakers, it’s perhaps the most indispensable modern home technology on this entire list.
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