How to Automate Home Living with Smart Plugs and Switches

Have you ever forgot to turn off the lights when you left the house for work? Have you ever paid more for your electricity bill? Well, it happens and we surely had this experience before. Why? We all know that our home appliances don’t turn on or off by itself.

Good thing, there are now smart plugs and switches that makes it easier for us to manage our home appliances and every single device plugged in. Thanks to the growing acceptance of home automation, consumer electronics are increasingly interconnected in an easy-to-control ecosystem centered around WiFi connectivity, real-time remote monitoring and smartphone apps thereby saving you a lot of time and money.

So how does it work and what does it do? Unlike ordinary plugs and switches, the “smart” versions are like the building blocks of home automation where it transforms ordinary appliances and devices into smart ones. Everything plugged-in are connected to the home Wi-Fi network so that you can monitor, control and automate thereby saving electricity, ensuring home security and minimizing menial tasks.

The Benefits

Let’s face it, the latest consumer electronics have more innovative features, better performance and more energy efficient than what you have at home BUT these are more expensive as well! Worry not, you can always go for cheaper alternatives and still enjoy the best features of a home automation system that you can only dream of.

We’re talking about smart plugs and switches and it is the perfect time to replace your old electrical outlets and mechanical switches. What makes it more interesting is that you can easily integrate all plugged-in devices on Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit and Google Home so that your simple voice commands can control every appliance in the house.

Emerging smart home solutions provider OZAAS has useful tips on how you can automate home living by maximizing the features and capabilities of your home appliances.

1. Home Safety and Security

One of the most common house fires are usually caused by electrical issues and short circuits caused by home appliances left turned on. Oftentimes, we end up leaving the lights and even TV’s on while we prepare to go to work or school. Such accidents waiting to happen can be averted if we can just schedule when lights are on or off before we go out. We can even monitor what home appliances that are left turned on and remotely turn them off.

2. Personal Convenience

Smartphones are now part of our personal convenience so it is perfect sense that home automation systems have apps that allows you to schedule and remote control all plugged-in devices. Imagine this, you can have your tea and pancakes ready to cook early in the morning as long as your coffee maker or griddle are already plugged in to a Wemo or TP-Link smart plug. What about programming your lights to flicker if you think that an alarm clock noise doesn’t cut it? Or you can schedule your humidifier to turn on as you head to bed for a good night sleep.

3. Energy Conservation

We all want to save money from our electricity bill so why not use the OZAAS smart app to analyze the real-time power consumption of every appliance connected to an OZAAS smart Wi-Fi plug. This way, you will know how much energy you are consuming and how you can adjust it.

4. Creative Applications

Who would have thought that you can control the electronic-related activities of your kids by scheduling when they are allowed to watch TV or use the Internet? You can even get the lights to automatically turn on when you get home from work late at night. Although most smart plugs and switches are specifically designed for indoors, there are other models that are made for outdoor use so that you can control the Philips Hue porch lights or customize scenes of the outside with specific lighting effects.

If you are looking for the latest smart plugs and switches, leading smart home provider OZAAS has a wide array of smart home solutions available on their website, Lazada, Horme Hardware and Qoo10.