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(BPT) – Smart home devices such as speakers, lights, plugs, thermostats, and cameras can help simplify your daily life by increasing convenience, efficiency, and peace of mind. In fact, according to his 2023 Deloitte Connected Consumer Survey, 77% of people who have adopted smart home devices believe these technologies improve their overall quality of life.
Whether you're a technology enthusiast or just want to make your daily life a little easier, here are four tips to help you get the most out of your smart home setup.
Get a smart home control panel
Optimize your smart home experience by investing in a central smart home control panel. Instead of using multiple apps and platforms, your control panel acts as your home's central command center. Manage and control all your smart devices, including lights, thermostats, locks, cameras, blinds, and more, from one device to streamline your daily life and improve the functionality of your home.
The new Amazon Echo Hub is an easy-to-use, affordable control panel. The wall-mountable smart home panel is Alexa-enabled and designed to make managing all your smart devices easy and intuitive from one display. Echo Hub is compatible with thousands of connected devices across all major smart home protocols. That's why WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread, and Matter devices sync seamlessly with the built-in smart home hub, so you can mix and match devices regardless of brand or manufacturer.
Set up routines to automate your home
Setting up routines can help your smart home devices work better. Personalized routines allow you to group multiple actions so you don't have to request each one individually, saving time and effort throughout the day. Also, there are many ways to enable routines. Depending on the time of day, just ask Alexa or simply tap your Echo Hub.
For example, you can create a routine that turns off the lights, locks the doors, turns on the security system, and adjusts the thermostat when you say “Alexa, I'm leaving.” By making it a routine, you can also reduce your household energy usage. For example, you can set up a routine that automatically turns off the lights when no one is in the room or adjusts the thermostat when no one is home.
Safely monitor and manage your home
Sync your security cameras, smart locks, and alarm systems to your smart home settings for added convenience and a layer of protection.
Smart cameras allow you to remotely monitor the inside and outside of your home while you're at work, running errands, or even at home. Control panels like the Echo Hub make it easy and quick to view your camera feed and get proactive notifications when someone comes to your door without having to pull out your phone. And if you forget to lock your front door or turn on your security system before bed, just ask Alexa or tap your Echo Hub to lock and secure your home. I can.
Customize your smart home to suit you
The beauty of a smart home is that you can set up the devices, groups, actions, and routines that best suit you, your lifestyle, and your space. In addition to displaying your favorite smart home devices, Echo Hub also displays Alexa widgets for your home calendar, reminders, lists, notes, recently played music, weather, and more to help you stay organized. The display is also customizable, so you can add, remove, or rearrange the content you see on your home screen to suit your daily life.
You want your smart home to work for you, not the other way around. These four tips will help you create a more personalized and simple home experience. For more information about Echo Hub, visit Amazon.com/echohub.