These Are The Best Gadgets For Your Smart Home

When smart home gadgets debuted some years ago, they were not really smart but now, it’s beneficial to upgrade your microwave, vacuum cleaner, and even sound system with power from AI. In this article, we will take you through the list of smart home gadgets available on the market right now.

The best all-around home wifi solution: Netgear Orbi

If your smart home relies on a single wifi network but has multiple floors and many rooms, one network cannot cover the entire place.

Apart from looking like a set of glowing air fresheners, the Orbi RBK50 gives you one of the best wifi solutions for your home with wider coverage thanks to its expansive, reliable network that lets you hop between different access points as little as possible.

In addition, you can set up the entire network using a smartphone app or a web browser even when your actual internet connection is off. Moreover, each node features multiple gigabit ethernet ports to guarantee solid connections for handling streaming boxes as well as game consoles, along with a USB port to provide access to devices for everyone.

Price: Rs 22,265

The best smart assistant: Google Home Mini

This product is suitable for those who want a virtual assistant in their homes to help you do tasks and save you from having to reach the phone whenever you want to check anything.

Not only is the Home Mini much cheaper than the Google Home, but it also often comes free of charge with other smart home offerings as part of a promotion. The Home Mini packs Google Assistant in a small-sized, aesthetically pleasing body which you can tuck out of sight easily.

While Amazon Alexa came out first, Google Assistant has gained more capabilities and got better at understanding voice commands, which helps it connect you to most online services of Google and you don’t have to even lift your finger. Notably, the device is cheaper so it takes you less to fill your home with several Home Minis so that wherever you are in the house, the Mini can always hear you. However, you should not expect much in its sound quality for playing music.

Price: Rs 3,519

The best robotic vacuum: Neato Botvac D7 Connected

If you want to keep your home clean and neat but you don’t always have enough time to do it yourself and don’t want to pay someone to do it for you, this device will offer great help.

While the Neato isn’t a really big brand name, its Botvac D7 features some advanced navigation tech in the autonomous cleaner market. Using lasers, the device maps all the rooms in your house, and you can set the limit for which places the vacuum is not allowed to reach through a mobile app. Plus, you can name particular areas and rooms in your house which Neato promised that the smart assistant will one day clean whatever room you tell it.

Price: Rs 54,459

The best smart home hub: Google Home Hub

This product is for those who always ask the assistant about movie times, the weather, and even questions about cooking.

Despite coming out a few years later than Amazon Alexa, the Home Hub has already surpassed its rival regarding both sales and capabilities. This is the cheapest existing touchscreen-equipped hub right now and costs just Rs 1,436 more than the Home speaker. It may not be the best candidate for video or music playing, but it’s great for tying all the smart home device you have together on one screen. Especially, the Home Hub does a good job in finding as well as reformatting recipes to help you cook with ease.

Price: Rs 10,773

The smart plug: Belkin Wemo Mini Smart Plug

A smart plug helps you control every device in your house remotely. The Wemo Mini Smart Plug launched more than six years ago, and it’s now among the cheapest, easiest ways to make your place smart. It sits between one outlet and a device or appliance which you plug in for power. It connects to the wifi network in your home and you can control or schedule switching on and off something using an Android or iOS app.

In addition, the device works with all common smart home assistants, which means you can use voice commands to do a lot of things in your place.

Price: Rs 2,155

The best smart lighting: Philips Hue

This lighting system came out in 2012 and has since added most types of fixture and light bulbs required for modern decoration. Through a mobile app, you can remotely activate, dim, schedule, trigger the bulbs with a motion sensor which is tinted and connected to a voice-waken smart assistant such as Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. However, they are not natively wi-fi, so you will have to get a hub if you want to upgrade your home’s lighting system.

Price: Rs 5,027 – Rs 25,138

The best smart security camera: Logitech Circle 2

If you want to keep an eye on your house when you’re out, a security camera is a great choice. It not only helps you make sure your property is safe but also helps you watch out for your kids or even replaces the baby cam.

The key difference among smart security cameras lies in their software, which they rely on to monitor your home rather than their field of view of the resolution. The Logitech Circle 2 is among the easiest devices to set up, and you can use its mobile app as well as online service to obtain a time-lapse review of whatever the camera saw during the day. Notably, the service is free and the device is waterproof and is able to capture footage in the dark. The Circle 2 also offers basic features for image detection such as recognizing human beings and focusing motion detection on a particular area.

Price: Rs 12,928 – Rs 14,365