Smart home (smart home, home automation) is a residential platform, using integrated wiring technology, network communication technology, security technology, automatic control technology, and audio and video technology to integrate home life-related facilities to build efficient residential facilities and families. A management system for schedule affairs, improving home safety, convenience, comfort, artistry, and realizing an environment-friendly and energy-saving living environment
The emergence of the smart home has brought great convenience to our family life. There are always two sides to the appearance of things, and while we enjoy the comforts that technology brings us, we also experience its disadvantages. So, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a smart home?
First,the advantages of a smart home
It needs to be acknowledged that the birth of the smart home has indeed brought a qualitative leap to many aspects of the human living environment. It can be seen that a smart home must have many advantages, so the following will first summarize its advantages. In this regard, the advantages of the smart home are mainly reflected in the following points.
1. Enhance the convenience and comfort of the living environment
Nowadays, it is not difficult to see all kinds of smart home equipment that can be remotely controlled, such as lights, curtains, various household appliances, etc. In this way, people can run the equipment before people arrive, greatly Improving the convenience of life. Smart home equipment can not only be controlled remotely, but also can monitor various indicators in the living environment in real-time, such as temperature and humidity, pollution source indicators, light, etc., and people living in the environment can be personalized according to their own needs. These indicators can be customized, so that the equipment in the house can adjust its working status at any time according to its own personalized settings, making the environment more suitable for the occupants themselves.
2. Enhance the safety of the human living environment
While making the human living environment more comfortable, safety is also of great importance to human beings. In this regard, smart homes also have their own solutions. First of all, in order to protect the personal and property safety of the house and the people inside the house, the smart home can monitor the house in real-time, effectively and comprehensively, so no one can know whether the house is safe without being at home. Secondly, on the other hand, especially when there are elderly people, children, or patients with low behavioral abilities at home, the real-time monitoring of smart homes can also enable their family members to keep abreast of their dynamics at any time. In the event of danger or accident, can be detected and rescued in time. In addition to the above-mentioned monitoring functions, there are also some intelligent devices inside the house, such as sensor lights and human health data monitoring systems, which can also block some dangers before they occur, further improving the safety of the entire environment.
3. Rational use of resources and protection of the environment
Not only for human beings but also in the process of protecting the natural environment, the smart home has also played a great role. For example, different families have very different living habits and have different requirements for many conditions such as temperature, humidity, and light. It is difficult for traditional home environments to effectively control these indicators, while smart homes have different requirements. The system can do it. It can control the operation mode of various furniture products in the living space according to the data customized by the residential users themselves, so as to adjust various indicators, so that the indicators can meet the needs of users, and can also improve energy efficiency. Effective use reduces a lot of waste and ultimately plays a great role in protecting the natural environment.
Second, the disadvantages of a smart home
1. Threats to user privacy and information security
In the smart home system, the application of the Internet and the Internet of Things technology is very important, which means that in the process of using smart homes, human beings cannot be separated from the Internet, which brings hidden dangers to information security.
Today's society is a society with a high degree of informationization. Big data is used in all walks of life. Every person living in this society has his own relatively private information stored in relation to this huge data environment. , such as an address, phone, and even identity information, etc.
However, the problem of network information security has always existed. In addition to objective factors such as accidental leakage, there are also factors such as some relevant staff who hold other people's information and reselling other people's information for personal gain. These problems make it difficult to avoid information leakage. Since the smart home system also includes Internet technology, it is naturally unavoidable to avoid this problem. The information security issue that people worry about also restricts the development and popularization of the smart homes.
2. Follow-up maintenance costs
A high-level smart home is also a form of home, so it is also like traditional home equipment, there will be such and such problems. Unlike traditional home equipment, traditional home equipment is relatively independent, when of them When damage occurs, only the individual can be repaired or replaced, and the cost of repair or replacement is naturally relatively low. This is not the case with smart homes. Smart homes are usually composed of a variety of devices and systems. When one of them is damaged, it may cause the entire system to fail to be used normally. If the maintenance naturally requires a very professional team, it needs to be replaced seriously. When it is more likely to need to replace other equipment in the system or even the entire system, the cost will naturally be greatly increased.
