Simple and smart accessories to ramp up your home

Smart home tech is a great way to liven up your home and automate certain aspects of your life, and that extends to the bedroom as well. Your home devices provide a sense of convenience, which is now essential for every human in the town. What if all the devices in your life could connect to the internet? Not just Laptops and smartphones but everything like fan, clock, sockets, light/bulb, camera, Google home hub, sleep sound. It’s not fiction; it's the internet of things (IoT) and it’s a key component of home automation and smart homes.

Here are a few simple but intelligent smart home accessories that fit the bill.

Syska Smart Lights - Syska entered the smart light segment quite a while back, and has been selling appliances in India for some time now. The wireless technology has enabled to control the bulb from Bluetooth technology app which has wireless range of 10m.You can choose from 3 mil shades via easy to use app. You can now move from violet to green to mauve while going indigo. Some of its key features include dimmable and brightness control, color palette to change the color, Pick & change colors from camera and photograph and as per the music sync. You can also schedule the bulb to go on & off.

Indyro Global Smart Sockets - Moving beyond the limitations of a wall-fixed power outlet, POWER PLUS is the first flexible power outlet system to be introduced in India by new start-up Indyro Global. It is essentially a long ‘power railway line’ of sorts, which can easily fit along the walls of a space or table skirting and allow users to plug in their devices from wherever they are. The sockets offered are also universally adaptable. Furthermore, the accessories can easily serve as a Wi-Fi adapter or can connect to a LAN cable, adapting to the needs of corporate spaces easily. POWER PLUS does not require any kind of re-wiring, breaking down walls or massive renovation work and can fit in smoothly within existing power structures.

Havells Enticer Smart Fan - The fan connects to Wi-Fi, has a dedicated mobile application and supports voice commands via Alexa and Google Assistant. It performs silently and even so at low voltages. Ceiling fans are prone to gathering dust. This fan is equipped with a dust-resistant paint that prevents dirt and dust from sticking to its body and thus accumulating.

Qubo Smart Indoor Camera - It’s the first indoor camera in India that’s ‘Alexa-enabled’ thus, allows users to directly give voice commands to the camera.  It comes with a 1080p full-HD camera, which can be used as a smart home hub to control and remotely manage various smart devices at home. It also has a 140-degree field of view and comes with night vision functionality and 2-way audio. Other features include AI-powered image analytics technology to deliver person detection, face recognition and baby crying alerts.

August Smart Lock PRO + Connect – The Smart Lock Pro + Connect offers lots of bells and whistles  and supports August's DoorSense technology, Z-Wave compatibility, and Wi-Fi connectivity. It's easy to install and can be controlled remotely or with Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri voice commands, and it retains the sleek aesthetics of its siblings.