The concept of home is always evolving beyond just the basic facilities or the space factor that are known as common denominators. There are many upgrades available once a home is bought. These are helpful when there are family members of every age group around.

There are two terms that you will come across very often. One is home automation, and the other is smart homes. Both play a vital role in improving the comfort levels inside the home and enhance the quality of life, always.

Home Automation and the Benefits

As the name implies, the processes per which all the major errands or functionalities in your home will take place in almost every aspect of life without your manual assistance. The technology will be handy, or the latest engineering works can be adopted to make the mechanisms, such as automatic switching on and off of the electric appliances, with the help of sensors.

To give a few examples of home automation, the lights get turned off by themselves whenever you leave home, the lights get dimmed when you are all set to watch a movie, the garage door opens or closes when needed, and even the window blinds open or close by sensing the temperature around. Also, the music settings can be set in a way that it plays your favorite music based on the movement around.

Smart Automation and the Functionality

This requires the support of devices and appliances to transfer the commands across. With a steady internet connection alongside, it becomes easy to operate with remote access. Smartphones, televisions, lighting, heating, and security systems are the best examples. Even voice assistants such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa can be of smart help to carry on multiple commands.

In the concept of the Smart home, there has to be a 'connect to control' mechanism for which the need for Wi-Fi internet sources everywhere in the house is a must. Then, in that case, the light bulbs can be dimmed using your smartphone, and the CCTV camera can be monitored using a laptop or even a smartphone.

Main Points of Difference.

• Home automation is possible without any external intervention or external command. The smart home concept needs that all the devices to be connected to the internet for proper sync of communication.
• Both home automation and smart home devices can work in synchrony, where the latter can accommodate the functions of home automation, in which case manual intervention is not required. Home automation is task-specific, while smart home mechanisms take care of the entire process than just a task.
• The role of smart home automation always needs internet access, whereas basic home automation will not need this for sure. The functionality might be limited, but then you need not worry, even if the internet is down for some reason or the other.

Get your home a smart touch or the automation sign; come what may, life gets easier with these upgrades.