Smart Home Automation is fast becoming a trend. Not just because it is a fun thing to do, but it really helps your home to be more safe, secure, connected, & also energy efficient.
- Making a home Safe from hazards & dangers is a necessity, be it for fire threat or indoor air pollution or building's structural integrity. Safety is a must.
- Security comes the next as the home not just keeps us secure, but it also needs to be protected from external threats. CCTV is a great example, Intrusion or break-in detection, fence breach, etc.
- Energy is something that is consumed heavily, and enabling good automation technologies will help reduce the the overall footprint and thereby save from huge expenditures.
- Connected devices are the best for overall control and monitoring, rather than individual things randomly scattered everywhere. This where Home Assistant platform comes into play as a central hub for all things to be connected under one umbrella.
Home Assistant is a platform which is secure, powerful, versatile and compatible with almost every smart things for home automation. The best part is that it is an open source platform, which makes it easy to modify, add new features that could be absent with proprietary systems. It is also light-weight, meaning it takes very minimal hardware and can be installed on devices like Raspberry Pi, old PC, etc.
