In the current decade, IoT is one of the most useful pieces of tech out there. With a ton of start-ups, in the market, and many more to come, the competition in the market is increasing like never before. Older products that once used to have an obscenely high price are now cutting down their prices to stay in the market.
No doubt the saying “any competition is a healthy one” is absolutely true. But that competition has to be in a relevant field, a field where people would like to invest their money to purchase that product.
So, here are the top 10 IoT products that are pretty useful in the current day and age in reverse order. Cause why not!
10. Room temperature controller (Thermostat)
A temperature controller as it sounds regulates the temperature of your room. A smart thermostat does that automatically by either maintaining the same temperature. Or based on the presets or preference.
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With a built-in touch screen, you can alter the settings easily. But home assistant integration, a voice command should be enough to get the ideal temps for your room.
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It is a physical speaker with an inbuilt mic housing amazon’s personal assistant, Alexa. This device can integrate with your home IoT devices to enable voice commands.
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Also, with its vast database, casual conversations ranging from greetings to out of the blue or important calculations become really easy.
And also, not ignoring the fact of housing a ton of easter eggs.
What smart locks do is similar to what a normal lock does, locks doors. But how it safeguards the door is where it bites our interest. Having an app integration, this IoT device can unlock the door with passcodes, fingerprints, and voice.
A must-have IoT device for your home. Since homes are an expensive beautiful area to own, it also needs to be taken care of properly.
An IoT-based smoke detector has an app integration. This helps the device to alert you of the smoke source even when you are out of your home premises. And also not to mention the fact it works brilliantly nearby.
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Another must-have IoT device, the doorbell camera is a small camera having an infrared sensor. This sensor along with acting as a proximity device acts as a light source, for taking pictures in dark.
The device can alert the homeowners about visitors, near the doorbell. And if the owner wishes to see who is it, can do it with the live camera feed.
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Because of its app integration, it can send alerts to homeowners of visitors while they are out of their house.
5. Google home:
An alternative to Amazon Home echo, Google home houses the well renowned Google assistant in it. And the fact of it having Google assistant is what makes it special. Google Assistant is much better and responsive compared to its competitors.
Many parts of it go to Google, for experimenting with AI or Artificial Intelligence, thus making it much easier to use.
4. Smart Plug:
Smart plugs have IoT controllers fitted to them. This enables them to turn any connected device ON/OFF.
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Even with home assistant integration, these plugs can be controlled easily through voice commands
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The air pollution monitor is an IoT device that checks the quality of air. By taking in the air at its surroundings, it can tell the content of the air. Along with that, it can also indicate the harmful level of the air quality too.
One of the foremost rising concerns at the present day. Air Pollution has a lot of adverse effects on health as well as the nervous system also.
Along with heart and lungs’ problems, it can also affect the nervous system too. That’s why monitoring the air quality every day is really important before going out for daily chores and Air pollution monitoring does this thing.
Smart switches are multiples of smart plugs. The only difference being it is integrated permanently into the house wiring.
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Being a better brother of smart plugs, they have a lot better integration. Be it in voice, app, appliance, or home assistant, they are really better.
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And finally, what else could’ve taken its place. Air purifiers are one of the most demanding IoT devices available out there. Since I have already discussed how harmful air pollution can be, Air purifiers are a boon at this time.
Intaking air from any source filters the air of any harmful substances. Then it spreads the air in the living space.
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The best part of the IoT purifier is its voice and app integration. Be it with home assistants or with its native app.
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About the author: Shayan is someone who loves to write as a hobby. Having a keen interest in technology, he has quite a view of the tech world. Being the owner of GamerSquare, he holds the insight to be a part of the Slake IoT Content Management team and we are proud to have him.
Hey, it was a very well written post. Thankyou.
Great article, Shayan