With increasing advancement in technology, life is becoming more and more comfortable and convenient. Various Smartphone applications are available which aids in almost all aspects of life. It is now possible to manage your home by controlling most of the appliances regardless of where you are. You can just sit anywhere with your tablet, PC or Smartphone and control virtually all sort of things in your house including lighting system, home heating system, music sound system and many more others. This article gives you some Smartphone applications for managing your home.
Nest thermostat
This is a Smartphone application which enables you to manage the temperatures in your house from wherever you are. Sometimes you find the temperatures in your house too low when come back from your daily activities making it really uncomfortable to stay there. You can think of leaving the home heating system on to avoid this unbearable coldness but this option will cost you a fortune as the heating bills will be too high. Nest thermostat comes to your aid in such situation as you can manage the heating system wherever you are. You can set the temperatures to the desired levels sometimes before going back to your house. This will make your house warm enough by the time you get there and you won�t have to suffer in chill of coldness as you wait for the house to warm. This application is very efficient as it learns your habits within short time and programs itself to start making adjustments automatically. Amazingly, this application can detect whether you are at home or away. This helps in energy saving as it automatically goes into energy-saving when it detects that you are away from home.
Lockitron
Lockitron is an iPhone application which allows you to lock the doors of you house from wherever you are. With this application, you don�t have to worry about whether you locked the doors or not. This is because you can do it at a touch of button. If anyone wants to access your house and you are not around, they don�t have to travel all the way to where you are to get the keys. Lockitron will do it and save them that time as you can unlock the doors for them. With lockitron application, you can lock, unlock the doors and send time sensitive smart keys. However, this app does not eliminate the traditional key and lock. It only reinforces them. This means you can still revert to the physical lock in case the power is off. In such situation, you can also send a temporary key of your front door through a text message if someone wants to access your house when you are away.
Insteon Light Control Kit
This is a light controlling app which allows you to control the lighting in your home through your Smartphone. With this application, you can dim or simply automate the lighting of your home through a simple touch of a button. This application makes life comfortable as you don�t have to keep switching your lights on and off all the time. All you need is to set the lights to a timer and the Insteon Light Control Kit will do it for you.
Make your life easier by using these Smartphone applications for managing your home. They are very easy to use and are readily available from your Smartphone�s Appstore at very reasonable rates.