The smart home rise

The smart home market is booming, with more and more people introducing tech into their homes in 2022.

The convenience of products like voice-assisted technology, such as Alexa and Google Home, is driving huge amounts of growth in this market. As well as this is popularity in tech that assists with home security, home temperature control, and overall energy efficiency. All attractive additions to many people’s households.

With the introduction of simple smart gadgets, you can have remote access to systems such as heating and cooling, music, and multimedia devices throughout the home.

With more advanced smart home setups, you can monitor visitors to your doorstep while you’re away, have remote access to cameras and motion sensors, as well as use key cards or fingerprint recognition instead of traditional locks, making it more difficult for intruders to get access.

For improved energy efficiency, there is home tech available to help. Some systems turn lights off automatically when no one is in the room, and the thermostat can be set to allow the internal temperature to drop during the day before returning to a more pleasant level when you return home from work.

Here are a few of the smart home trends for 2022.

Smart kitchens
Smart appliances in the kitchen, including smart fridges, smart ovens, and smart air fryers. This kind of tech includes features that remember your favourite cooking styles, as well as the ability to show you what food you have available and when it expires, to help reduce food waste.

Smart fitness
As a result of more people working out at home due to Covid-19, there is set to be an increase in smart gym equipment, including smart treadmills, rowing machines, and exercise bikes. Smart features include voice-enabled control, access to audio and video content and screens.

Voice control
With the success in voice-assisted tech, there will be an increase of smart home devices that will use voice as the medium of control, including fridges, wifi routers, air conditioners, smart lights, and smart plugs. This growth has also been encouraged by Covid-19 and the reduction of physically touching surfaces.