3 Amazing Things you can do with your Smart Plug

Posted by ryan on August 19th, 2019

The smart phone sector is booming, with all kinds of brands coming to the fore with its own devices that promise to help you save electricity, time, ensure home security and get off the couch less often. Turning your ‘dumb’ home into a smart one is not a difficult task if you have the right devices in place. Yes, there is a device that can make your home smarter. What is that magical device? Well, it is a smart plug that can help transform the way you interact with the devices and appliances in your house.

What is a Smart Plug?

A smart plug is like a power-point adapter that fits in between your power socket and the appliance you wish to plug in. At its most elementary level, smart plug simply turns things on and off. But, when connected to a smart phone platform, it pans out to be a very useful device. Most of the smart plugs communicate using your house’s WI-FI network to a centrally connected control hub. This hub further utilizes your Wi-Fi to send information to a particular app on your smartphone.


Therefore, we have come up with some of the awesome things that you can do with your smart plug:

Enjoy the most Optimum Temperature

Have you ever thought of your air-conditioner starting by itself on a really hot day so that when you arrive your house, you find it nice and cool? And what about unexpected guests arriving at your place? Well, with a smart plug, you can control your appliances like turning them off and on when required. This clearly means that no matter it is summer or winter, you can always set a time for your air conditioner, fan or heater to turn on.


Deceiving the Burglars into thinking Someone’s home when You are actually not
If you are heading out over the weekend or heading for a holiday trip, obviously you might want to create an illusion that you are home. Well, you can easily do this by setting up a smart plug with a lamp nearby a window. All you need to do is to connect your lamp to the smart plug. Post that, you can set timers for your lights to come on at night to create an illusion of activity and warn off the intruders.

Minimize the Chance of Electrical Fires

Any electric appliance that has the potential to begin fires or cause an electric shock, and each come with their own dangers, right from frightening to life-threatening. So, making sure that all such appliances are switched off using the smart plug technology will minimize the chances of your appliances catching fire when you are asleep or not at home.

To conclude, it is time to bring the smart plug technology into your life. If you want to save energy, money and time; switch to smart plugs now!

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