The Smart Home technologies are part of the current world digital transformation concepts like
IoT / Internet of Things, Real-Time Monitoring & Control, Digital Twins…
As you can see in the diagram above, we can install plenty of components depending on our needs:
- we can install simple sensors like: a door sensor, motion detector, temperature sensors & humidity sensors…etc
- we can as well connect to smart surveillance cameras, with simple or with advanced features (depends on your budget!)
- smart switches can be also a good option for the people who want to control lights, water-taps and other stuff remotely
- the smart home concept can be extended and go beyond all of that and include plenty of smart home appliances like A/C, microwaves, washers and others
All these devices and sensors will be connected to what we call a “smart home gateway” or a “smart hub”.
this gateway is responsible of collecting data from all devices and sensors, and it’s also the responsible of
talking to smart switches or appliances when a remote control or remote action is requested by the user.
To communicate with Smart devices and sensors, most of the solutions in the market use what we call “low-power” AND “low-cost” Wireless technologies like: Zigbee and Z-Wave Protocols. Some technologies are using Bluetooth, MQTT, HTTP… protocols, but they have more power and networking needs.
Finally, The smart gateway will use the notmal Home WiFi to communicate with the smart home application software installed on your smartphones like: Tuya or Smart life (or others).