Smart homes are on the rise in Singapore, with this figure expected to grow from 588,000 in 2023 to 1.5 million by 2028, signalling an increasing interest in more efficient and convenient lifestyles. Home automation is no longer a luxury accessible only to the few – for many, it’s a feasible and practical route to comfort, energy savings, and security.

If you want to join the movement towards smarter homes, here are five proven smart-home solutions to explore. Each is readily available in Singapore and can integrate smoothly with popular ecosystems, including options like Google Home and Apple Home.

Smart lighting

Smart lights like LED bulbs and switches allow you to change your lights’ brightness and even colour temperature. Many can even be integrated into a schedule that adjusts them based on the time of day. 

For instance, the schedule can automate the bulbs’ switching to warmer tones for evenings. This can help establish a warmer, more comfortable feel when homeowners wind down. 

These adjustments can also be activated by a variety of triggers. You can initiate an instant change with a voice assistant, or set up motion sensors that turn off lights when rooms are idle. 

With certain apps, you can also control lighting in your home remotely, such as by turning on lights to simulate staying in at home even when you’re away, to discourage break-ins.

Smart blinds

Smart home blinds are among the most popular automated solutions today. One of the reasons for this is that they synergise so well with many other smart technologies.

Motorised blinds can be paired with smart lights to further enhance a home’s adaptive ambience. For instance, Ziptrak® Interior and Outdoor track-guided blinds offer a superb solution for fuss-free natural light management.

These two products glide within side tracks and eliminate gaps that could let in glare or pests. This provides convenience for homeowners in many ways. They get light control as well as temperature control, as eliminating gaps translates to better insulation.

Both Ziptrak® Interior and Outdoor motorised variants can be easily integrated with various hubs and easily controlled through apps. It’s even possible to set them up to respond to certain triggers, such as data from rain sensors!

Smart air-conditioning

Singapore is a warm country, so most of us run air conditioners almost year-round. Smart solutions tie into that by making it possible to run them more economically.

Some can be set up to recognise when the homeowner is heading home via geolocation of devices. They can then be automated to start powering up already so that the homeowner is greeted by the cool comfort of their homes.

Some of these can even be integrated with other smart home solutions. As an example, you can link them to smart home blinds like Ziptrak®. The blinds can be programmed to be lowered in the afternoon, to reduce the amount of heat in the space (before the air-conditioner turns on). This will help the air-conditioning compressors to be more efficient and cool the space quicker. 

Smart doorbells

Smart doorbells offer convenience in security and delivery receipt. You can pair video doorbells with a variety of other technologies like HD cameras, motion sensors, and two-way audio.

The residents of the home can receive real-time alerts on their phones whenever someone is at the door. With smart home technology, they won’t even need to be in the area to receive the alert! Residents can communicate instructions to the person at their doorstep without needing to open the door. That can offer enhanced safety in some situations. 

Some of the better cameras can also be set up to recognise familiar faces and separate them from unknown or new callers. In addition, some of them are equipped with night vision solutions. 

For enhanced security, you can even feed your camera’s footage into cloud-archived data storage. This could be of use to neighbourhood watch programmes and in some cases, even insurance claims.

Smart fridges

This is for those who want connected kitchens that can help them cut waste. Wi-Fi-enabled refrigerators make it possible to see your fridge’s contents at all times, for example. This is usually by taking photos of the contents that get stored on your mobile phone.

The result is that you always know what to buy and what you already have in your fridge when out at the supermarket. Some of these can even be set up to recognise or flag expiration dates through paired apps that send you reminders to use your food items before they spoil.

The best examples of smart fridges also have touchscreen recipe guides that are recommended based on your fridge’s contents.

Get started on making your home smarter

With the sheer range of smart-home solutions today, homeowners can achieve maximum efficiency and convenience. The plug-and-play and highly interconnected appliances available make living simpler than ever while bringing down resource consumption.

With Singapore being a highly connected digital landscape, with near-universal internet access for households, the solutions above are easily available. If you want smart blinds in particular, consider reaching out to us at ClimaShield. 

As an authorised retailer of Ziptrak® blinds, we can offer you showroom demonstrations as well as on-site consultations for both Ziptrak® Interior and Outdoor Blinds.

Book an appointment today to see how a single tap or voice command can orchestrate your entire ambience and home space!