Smart Home provides the possibility to control the room automation system with the help of voice. Voice control makes the use of Smart Home even more comfortable, because here you do not even need to press buttons.
For easy human interaction with the device it is necessary to pay attention to the quality of speech recognition – it is on it that the ease of interaction between a person and the device depends.
Voice control is a modern and reliable solution for automation systems. It is necessary to know a number of nuances that will help to customize the work to perfection.
In a Smart Home system, you can control with voice:
- Lighting: a voice-controlled system obeys the human voice. Out of all the noise and interference, the built-in microphones recognize the pre-defined phrase in the settings and react only to it. This means that no matter how noisy the room is, the system will recognize the right commands;
- Shuttering: Open/close without getting up from the sofa to press a button on the control panel.
- Scenes: For example, give a command to water the lawn or turn on a scenario of lighting in the house.
- Climate: When instructed, turn the air conditioner or heater on or off. By giving voice commands, you can set any comfortable temperature in your apartment and even in each room. For such purposes there is a separate block of the Smart Home system – climate control;
- Intercom, gates and doors can be controlled by voice, and the system can react to extraneous sounds, which increases the possibilities of protection and security.
Benefits of installing voice control:
- Using voice, commands are given to the system, it recognizes the speech and transmits the command for execution.
- Today, voice control is an elaborate and reliable feature.
- Implementing voice control system operation is not expensive and complicated.
- Voice control will help people with disabilities or vision loss.
Properties of the voice control system:
- supported by all operating systems;
- ability to interact with the Smart Home system through the microphone of a mobile device via Wi-Fi network;
- control of any device of the Smart Home system;
- ability to connect to alarm systems;
- has functions of noise reduction and voice tracking (works even in street conditions);
- ability to realize scenario control.
It is important to realize that special attention should be paid to the microphone, since the quality of how the system will “hear” will depend on its power.
Among the popular software products for Smart Home system equipment with voice control are Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant.
And, for example, Thinknx server is well integrated with Siri and Alexa. It is easy to set up, and has proven its performance in practice. In addition, its graphical interface is best suited to the Smart Home system.
The cost of voice control installation will depend on the number of devices required to realize the customer’s wishes.
What is needed to install a Smart Home voice control system
- Sensors to control different lighting zones (in a private house there are rooms used less intensively, in particular, the basement);
- Controller that receives commands from the voice assistant;
- Microphones. They can be mounted in the switch. The most suitable are those devices that have a weak susceptibility to background noise;
- Speakers.
The system is configured using software from an ordinary computer. The principle of voice control is to record a selected phrase, and assign it to a certain command.