Top Smart Automation Solution for Home?

What is a home automation?

From Wikipedia, you might find below description of Home automation:

“Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home, called a smart home or smart house. A home automation system will control lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances. It may also include home security such as access control and alarm systems. When connected with the Internet, home devices are an important constituent of the Internet of Things ("IoT").

A home automation system typically connects controlled devices to a central hub or "gateway". The user interface for control of the system uses either wall-mounted terminals, tablet or desktop computers, a mobile phone application, or a Web interface, that may also be accessible off-site through the Internet.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation#cite_note-4

This is an intact description which we could find through the internet. Briefly speaking, users could control all the electronic devices in a home through the home automation system. As long as the device is used electricity, there are always tens of thousands of ways to let it connect to the internet and to become one of constituents of the IoT.

How smart the home automation system could be?

The home automation system is aimed to bring convenience to our life, make it smarter and ease to control. How smart the home automation system could be? It depends. Different vendor have different smart home solutions and the functions are various. But the top smart best home automation system should be one which meets your needs perfectly. For example, automatically unlock the door when you are back from work, turn on/off the lights when you are in/out of the specific area, make to coffee or tea ready in the morning, close the window when there is a heavy rain, open/close the curtain or shutter, on/off the room air conditioning system etc..

All these actions could be done by a few finger-clicks on the smartphone/tablet/PC.

How is the Home Automation market Performance?

“Global Home Automation and Control Market was worth USD 5.77 billion in 2013, and predicted to reach to USD 12.81 billion in 2020”, said Reuters on 2016-05-05. The market keeps growing and increasing, there was a report showing the main demand scope of smart home in USA.

Source: http://www.city-data.com/blog/4725-smart-home-market-new-way-control-home/

The market would still keep growing, it is like a big cake and there is no doubt that the biggest cake belongs to ones who can supply smartest and strongest home automation system with good quality products.

What are the challenges of Home Automation system?

The market is big “cake” and each vendor won’t want to miss. The market is full of competitions,

there are few worldwide authorized industry standards and communication protocols which results in the serious confusion and fragmentation. In one home, the devices might from several vendors, and software such as the apps is different from each other. This would be a big trouble for users since they have to install many app on their smartphone or tablet which causes another inconvenience to them. Moreover, how to well design and figure out the features of the smart home automation control system is big technical challenge to most of the vendors, though some of them have reached higher level.

The ideal Home automation system would possible have two kinds: one is the system can control devices from different vendors, users would happy with this situation and vendors could share the “big cake”, but it is difficult; the other one is the strongest vendors hold the market, devices are all from them and need to use their home automation system, vendors might happy with it but not end-users.