Your house is part of you and you are part of it, why not give yourself a gift this Christmas? Thanks to Smart Home technology, your home becomes a smart place capable of communicating with you. If your house could talk, it could tell you from how many sockets you lose money, why your head hurts in that room, who moved the TV remote or who is knocking on the door, without having to go near the peephole.
If you want to take advantage of Santa Claus or the Three Wise Men to bring a gift to your home and to you, here are some products that may interest you:
smart lighting
A must For the connected home, before going for a light bulb, choose which room you need, office, living room or bedroom, each one has specific needs that you should take into account to know if you need smart lighting or not. Once chosen, we recommend those of the Trust brand, since it has a wide variety of models that adapt to each room.
- Trust WiFi E27 LED Bulb. This is a pack of two bulbs that you can choose between dimmable, filament or multicolor mode. It has a color temperature of 6,500 Kelvin and a brightness of 806 lm. Thanks to its WiFi connection, it can be controlled by Alexa or Google Home and also from its own application, creating the environment you need at all times.
- Trust WiFi GU10 LED Bulb. It is also a pack of two bulbs that you can choose between dimmable and multicolor. The color temperature is 6500 Kelvin and the brightness is 345 lm.
intelligent environmental control
2020 made us think about the air we breathe and the importance of its quality. It was the purifier boom and many of them carried a quality meter with them that made us realize that perhaps the air at home was not the best in the world. Headaches, sneezing or dry throat can come from poor air quality, excess CO2, pollen, or excess or lack of humidity. If this is what worries you, we recommend these devices so that not a single particle in your home escapes your control:
- Netatmo Smart Indoor Air Quality Meter. Easy to install and understand, with the app Netatmo Home Coach It is very easy to control the air quality of the room in which we find ourselves, in addition we can program notifications so that it notifies us at the moment if there is any deficiency. This model also controls noise and warns us when excess can be annoying. Right now he has a 20% discount on Amazon.
- Netatmo Smart Weather Station. If what interests us is the outside weather, Netatmo also has a station that offers us weather information. It comes with the indoor module, but we can also complement it with an anemometer and a rain gauge. In addition to the information offered by the internal and external meter, we will have access to other aspects such as barometric pressure or the level of external noise. If we complete it with a pluviometer We will also be able to know precisely the amount of water that falls in our garden or terrace, it also allows access to accumulated and forecast rainfall. With the anemometer You can check the speed and direction of the wind in real time on your smartphone.
- Ike’s STARKWINDa. It not only purifies, it also matches your furniture without standing out as a strangely futuristic element. You just have to plug it in and that’s it, it will begin to renew the air in the room in which it is located according to the needs detected. It can be regulated up to three power levels. To make it smart, it is necessary to buy two more items separately: the VINDRIKTNING air sensor and the TRÅDFRI, the connection device that works with the Ikea Smart Home application.
- SPC EVADNE humidifier. Dry environments are not very compatible with well-being and sometimes it is necessary to have a humidifier. The SPC EVADNE model, in addition to being intelligent and notifying you of the humidity status of the room, has the extra function of purifying water thanks to UV light.
- Netatmo Smart Smoke Detector. It is not only about controlling CO2 or the level of pollen, it is also important to control that our physical integrity is not in danger. Netatmo smart smoke detectors trigger an 85dB alarm when detected and their battery lasts up to 10 years.
- Netatmo Smart Carbon Monoxide Detector. In this case, it detects carbon monoxide in real time and notifies you in the event of a leak.
Temperature control
Investing in intelligent control of the temperature inside our home can not only make our lives easier, but also save us money. Before choosing one, the first thing to look at is whether it adapts to our type of heating, whether it is a boiler, central or electric.
- Netatmo Smart Thermostat. It is ideal for boilers, electricity, gas, fuel, wood or heat pump. It has an Auto-Adapt function that takes into account the outside temperature and the thermal characteristics of your home to guarantee the desired temperature. Like the rest of the devices that we have recommended, it is compatible with Google Home and Alexa.
- Google Nest. One of the best sellers from Google and a safe bet if we are looking for a thermostat. It has two models, the Nest Learning Thermostat and the Nest Thermostat E, the main difference between the two is that the E model is compatible with central heating boilers. Then the differences are aesthetic, the E model has a matte screen and the Learning a full-resolution color screen. Both can be controlled with Google Home or from the app.
- Netatmo Smart Radiator Valves. If we don’t want to or can’t change the thermostat, Netatmo gives us the option of installing intelligent thermoregulating valves on our radiators. These valves open and close the radiators until reaching the desired temperature that we will configure from the Netatmo Energy application.
Presence control
Finally, we must not miss the security control in our home. Thanks to the new connected home technologies we can control the integrity of our home at any time.
- Netatmo Smart Video Alarm System. With this alarm system we not only have a discreet and easy to camouflage camera, Netatmo also offers us with this pack, sensors for doors and windows that are easy to install. To start it up, you just have to plug it in, configure the application and it will be ready to control any intrusion into the house from your smartphone, whether allowed or not. This camera has a facial recognition system so that we can tell the camera who the inhabitants of the house are, in this way it can let us know who has entered and at what time. This type of alarm allows us to have an intelligent video surveillance system without additional costs, since we will only have to buy the camera and everything that is recorded remains on the SD card. Right now, if we want to buy only the camera, it is available on Amazon with a 17% discount.
- Smart Outdoor Camera with Siren. If what worries us are the surroundings of the house, we have this Netatmo option that just needs to be plugged in, configured with the application and that’s it, in addition to synchronizing with the mobile it comes with an integrated alarm that we can activate if we detect danger. The recognition and storage system is the same as that of the indoor camera.
- Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell. When someone rings the doorbell, the user receives an alert on his smartphone and can thus talk to his visitors. The doorbell also allows you to protect the entrance of the home. It notifies the user if it detects a person loitering in front of the entrance. When someone rings the doorbell, you receive a video call on your smartphone and see your visitor. The user can then choose whether or not to talk to him directly from his smartphone. Thus, the user can tell the delivery man where to leave the package when he is in the office or welcome his guests if he is still cooking dinner. Right now you have a 30% discount on Amazon.
Note: This selection contains some links from our affiliates, but none of the products included have been proposed or recommended by them or their manufacturers, but chosen according to our own criteria.
