Explained: The real meaning of Home Automation and how it is Different from a Smart home Setup

Two terms, Home Automation and Smart home has gained a lot of popularity nowadays

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But the real truth that merely adding smart devices to you home or your life does not justify the home-automation

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Smart devices and smart home are interlinked with each other

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Basically these devices have internet connectivity through wifi and allow users to control them via smartphone and other devices

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Now when you put a set of smart devices at your home, then the whole setup is termed as Smart home setup

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Now, what is Home Automation? So let's take a basic example of home automation

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If you supposed to turn on you light at the night or turn off at the morning, so you command the Alexa to turn on, so you command it to take action

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In home Automation, your lights will automatically turn on when the sun goes down

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