Home automation is the automatic control of electronic devices in your home. These devices are connected to the Internet, which allows them to be controlled remotely. With home automation, devices can trigger one another so you don’t have to control them manually via an app or voice assistant.

For example, you can put your lights on schedules so that they turn off when you normally go to sleep, or you can have your thermostat turn the A/C up about an hour before you return to work so you don’t have to return to a stuffy house. 

Home automation works on three levels:

• Monitoring: Monitoring means that users can check in on their devices remotely through an app. For example, someone could view their live feed from a smart security camera.
• Control: Control means that the user can control these devices remotely, like panning a security camera to see more of a living space.
• Remote Control: The heart of home automation is remote control, which is done through either a mobile application or through a voice assistant like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant.