SMart Homes
One App to Rule Them All Integrated systems simplify smart-home automation
By Kristin Marand
>> The Jetsons had every conceivable convenience of the modern age; a robot housekeeper, hologram communication, automated everything. The futuris- tic contraptions of the show’s brief run in the 1960s and subsequent revamp in the ’80s seemed incon- ceivable in an age when the Clapper was about as high-tech as real-world home automation systems got, but it seems that future has arrived. The automated, or smart home, is growing in popu- larity and the options are constantly expanding. Controlling and combining multiple smart features is easier than ever thanks to applications (apps) that can be downloaded onto just about any smart de- vice like a phone or tablet, even a watch.
‘Everything has an app, and what’s very useful is you can control anything from your phone. The challenge is they all work independently’
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