IoT and Smart Devices
IoT – how smart devices are making lives
more convenient
Dan Bieny, Commercial Manager for Smart Tech and Consumer Networking at Exertis explains how smart devices are enabling a more informed day-to-day way of living from wearables and health monitoring devices to smart plugs and heating controls.
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oT is an ever-growing marketplace, with an increasing number of products coming to the market that provide smart features – in fact, the market is on the rise to the extent it’s been predicted
there will be 22 billion connected devices by 2025. Exertis is the largest distributor for smart technology, and our
market knowledge in this space is second-to-none in the UK. Our experts are focused on our smart portfolio and are highly knowledgeable about the devices available, the benefits of each, and the best set-up to create the smart responses desired by each individual consumer. Our portfolio is wide ranging and we’re the only distributor to
offer solutions from both Google and Amazon. Exertis is also the exclusive distributor of the Hive range of products. IoT devices are oſten wearable, however, what we’ve recently seen
in the marketplace is a rise in customers looking to take control of the prices of their rising energy bills, and therefore utilising smart home devices to feel a sense of control over their use and spend.
Smart Heating Products in the Smart Heating market include Hive, Tado, and Google Nest. Each brand provides a different way of offering the consumer and small business owner a more intelligent way of managing their energy consumption. Te Google Nest learning thermostat allows the consumer to benefit from a smart thermostat, which learns when you’re in the house, reserving energy usage for when the home is occupied. Whereas both Hive and Tado, in addition to having smart thermostats, also offer additional battery
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powered TRV smart radiator valves, which enables individual radiators to talk to the master unit – reducing heating in the rooms, which are not being used.
Modern day requirements of customers’ lives, such as working
from home and agility being of paramount importance, make this a useful tool for consumers. What’s great about these smart TRV valves is they don’t require professional installation, so are a particularly popular with consumers.
Smart Surveillance Another recent increase in popularity is the idea of smart surveillance and security for both homes and properties. Vendors such as Swann, Ring, Arlo, Yale and Eufy have ensured that smart features can be adopted for these purposes with ease of installation and use. Tere’s gradually been a migration away from professionally installed CCTV, which needs to be maintained and can sometimes be more costly than a smart camera designed for surveillance. Flexibility can now be guaranteed with the development of smart
features for security purposes – for example, interactions can be exchanged with someone who might be standing at a consumer’s front door, no matter where the homeowner is located in the world. Both wired and battery-powered smart units can also provide different angle options rather than static images of the outside of an office building, or the front door of a house – for example, camera angles can be widened to view a parcel leſt on a doorstep, rather than only being able to see head-height when a visitor arrives.
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