A Smart Home is a home that utilizes new (often bluetooth) technology to control different features of your home. For example, a typical home may have a thermostat at one location in the home, requiring you to get up in the middle of the night when it is too warm or too cold. A Smart Home may instead use a virtual assistant or an app to control the temperature from anywhere in the home.

Smart Home devices can control your thermostat, unlock or lock your doors, open your garage, turn on and off outlets or lights, activate preset protocols such as intruder alerts, control bluetooth cleaning devices, and much more. Some can even allow you to talk to your pet or give them treats when you aren’t home!

Smart technology in the workplace is similar to the concept of a Smart Home in that it utilizes advanced technology to simplify your workplace. A Smart Office may include virtual assistant devices connected to anything from speakers to lights with the goal of making work more streamlined and energy efficient

Smart Offices can detect if someone is in the room, turn on lights, regulate air conditioning and heating through climate control, turn off outlets to reduce energy, detect when plants need to be watered, and more.

The biggest perk of having a smart home or office is being able to control your space via bluetooth to conserve more energy. If you forget to turn off your office lights over the weekend, Smart Light Bulbs can be controlled via bluetooth. In addition, smart features are now a high-value commodity in the real estate market, and could give you a boost when it is time to sell your space