10 Best apps for home automation and control
With the coming of the iPhone and the iPad, the lifestyle of people have gone through a lot of changes. This marvel of technology have come up with home automation applications which will manage your household tasks and run electronic systems like security, entertainment and lighting control with the help of the internet. The apps developed have unmatched usability and are giving luxury homeowners the easy of controlling their top-notch electrical systems with ease.
Here is a look at some of the best apps for home automation and control.
1. Crestron Mobile
With the Crestron Mobile application running on your iPhone, iPad or your Android mobile, you can now take full control of your home, boardroom or office from anywhere in the world. You can control your entertainment systems and set them off from a remote location when you are not using them. You can connect the service to any smart device and even CCTV camera's in your home to have a remote view. The possibilities are endless.
2. Beolink
Beolink gives your gadgets and entertainment systems to talk to each other in a way and relay data from one to another. With Beolink, you can play a certain video streamed in a TV in room to another placed in a different room. It lets your audio equipment to communicate with each other so that you can play your audio streamed from one equipment to the speakers of another.
3. ZWave Commander
The ZWave commander is a client for the iPhone and Android systems which connects with any other equipment running ZWave anywhere around the world. All you need to do is to to have a control stick USB thinkstick connected to your PC and ZWave commander client installed on your phone. This will allow all the devices under your PC to be commanded remotely from your iPhone or Android Phone.
4. On Controls Cloud Stored System
For control and automation systems to work, microprocessors need to be present in the devices which are controlled remotely by your phone. However with the On Controls Cloud stored system, the software program is stored in the cloud making it easier for users to install and modify the programming remotely. The programming is stored separately according to your user id and password.
5. Lutron Home Control+
The Lutron RadioRA 2 is a wireless home controlling system. It is basically an energy-saving system that allows you to adjust the amount of light entering your room through the windows and also the electric lights by controlling the automated window shades and using light controls respectively. It also lets you control your temperature in your home. It also switches off appliances when not in use.
6. Sonos Controller
The Sonos controller controls all your music systems present in your home in different rooms. With the mobile app, you can select a room and change what songs you would want to play in it. You can also synchronize all your music systems in all your rooms in such a way that they all play the same music at the same time.
7. iLoveControl Lite
With the iLoveControl Lite, you can set up an asynchronous communication between your phone and various electronic gadgets like lights, music systems, televisions and drapes.
It uses an IP-enabled processor which is generally from AMX or Crestron, which helps it to take control of these gadgets.
8. iMyHome
iMyHome is a simple apple iPhone and iPad application with minimalistic menus giving easy home automation controls to your electronic gadgets. You can access your cameras and view gadgets based on different rooms or zones and change their settings remotely.
9. DroidSeer X10 Home Automation
DroidSeer is a custom built home automation app made for systems running on Android. Once installation of the systems are done and integrated with your electronic devices, they can be controlled through the DroidSeer system. Moreover some devices like the thermostat displays the value on your phone.
10. Lightswitch
Lightswitch is another android running application which is custom built to be integrated to all the lights in your home and access them remotely by your Android device. So, next time you go out of your house and forget to switch the lights off, just complete a few gestures and the Lightswitch switches off those lights for you.
