(Photo : Reolink Argus Track)
The modern home experience is not just about providing aesthetics for your contemporary home but also about offering reliable and accessible tools to elevate your living experience. Moreover, having smart home tools helps you create seemingly mundane activities more efficiently and seamlessly while enjoying greater comfort in your living space.
To achieve this, it is imperative to have the perfect lineup of appliance brands to work together to make a comfortable and easy-to-navigate home experience for the modern household. From smart security cameras to efficient automated cleaning machines, these are our eight picks for the best smart home appliance brands you must have.
Reolink Argus Track
Before we can enter our house, home security is the most crucial aspect a smart homeowner should have. The Reolink Argus Track is one of the best smart camera offerings in the market, as it can be powered via a battery pack or an average-sized 6W solar panel. Moreover, its 4K Ultra HD camera feature further cements its position as a reliable smart camera that keeps you updated on whatever happens outside your home.
The Reolink Argus Track also has smart object detection, allowing you to quickly check whether another person, pet, or vehicle is in your home premises. Moreover, it has an auto-zoom feature, allowing the smart camera to focus on what relevant motion it detects once a subject is within the camera's point of view—with a maximum of six times the zoom function.
Suppose you want to check further who is outside of your home. In that case, the Reolink Argus Track also has a color night vision feature, allowing you to properly check the premises outside your home, even at night, with only a few light sources to illuminate the picture. And, of course, a smart camera would only be complete with a two-way audio feature, so you can greet friends or deter intruders with the built-in mic and speaker.
Reolink Duo 3 PoE
If you want another great smart camera for your smart home setup, the Reolink Duo 3 PoE is a great addition. It has a built-in dual-stitching image algorithm, allowing the camera to provide an actual 180° panorama by seamlessly stitching two images together. This is also coupled with Reolink's 16MP clarity feature, allowing the smart camera to always keep watch of your home premises in a clear picture.
Aside from having a smart detection system, the Reolink Duo 3 PoE also has a Motion Track, a new feature from Reolink, that summarizes 15 seconds of motion events into a single image. Compared to other motion tracking features, this offers real-time notifications for movement of people, animals, and cars. Such a feature is perfect for homeowners who want to properly track whether there are any moved items within their home premises.
Another great feature of the Reolink Duo 3 PoE is its dual feature of using only an ethernet cable to transmit data from your camera to a computer and being your power cable simultaneously. With such a feature, you can have a smart camera that is easy to set up for home security. Of course, don't forget that this camera also has a color night vision and a two-way audio feature, allowing you to properly check what's outside your home even at night and entertain—or deter—those at your doorstep.
Nyboer Keyless Fingerprint Smart Door Lock and Handle
Now that we have established proper smart security cameras outside of your home, we turn our attention to securing the doors at our house. For this one, the Nyboer Keyless Fingerprint Smart Door Lock and Handle blend proper capability to provide a secure door lock for the home and a smart way to manage it.
For starters, the Nyboer Smart Door Lock first has a fingerprint feature at the door handle, ensuring you can only open the door. Alternatively, the smart lock also has a properly-lit number pad where you can set a PIN code to unlock your door. You can also have the option to have a keyfob that can store your unlocking passcode and even unlock the door via your Nyboer smart door lock app. And no worries, if anything still fails, you have some regular critical backups just in case—make sure to change the password once you unlock it.
It is also worth noting that the Nyboer Smart Door Lock allows you to share a temporary passcode with anyone visiting your house and even keep track of when the door is unlocked and locked again. You can even set a time to unlock or lock your door, fully automating your security.
Honeywell Home RTH6360D1002 Thermostat
As you enter your home, it is a no-brainer for a smart homeowner to be able to adjust the room temperature for your home to bring comfort inside. Whether you just got back from a sweltering summer day or perhaps from a cold winter day, a smart home must always have an automated thermostat to balance the ideal temperature properly.
Enter the Honeywell Home RTH6360D1002 Thermostat, one of the best smart thermostats, designed to provide a better smart home experience through a personalized and automated temperature adjustment system. This thermostat has smart response technology, which learns how long it takes to achieve the right temperature at the right time and automatically runs your system to get to your desired temperature when you want it. Moreover, it has an auto changeover between heat and cool and reminder alerts for low batteries and filter changes, allowing you to be always notified whether the thermostat needs new tweaks to improve the thermostat experience.
In the case of a power interruption, the Honeywell Home Thermostat remembers what you programmed prior to the disruption, so you can always have peace of mind that the last saved settings will still be on once the electricity is back up. Lastly, its 5- to 2-day Programmable Thermostat allows you to set a schedule of comfort while you're home and help save energy while you're away.
Dreametech D10s Plus Robot Vacuum
Of course, a smart home experience would only be complete if you also automate the general cleaning experience, especially for your floors. For this one, the Dreametech D10s Plus Robot Vacuum does the job, as it takes the hassle of self-cleaning for up to 65 days—albeit this is only dedicated to light dust on the floor.
What's impressive about the Dreametech Robot Vacuum is its advanced AI action and LiDAR obstacle avoidance features, allowing your robot vacuum to make a LiDAR scan of your house's floor plan and make a planned strategy to clean your floor, as well as mapping out vacuuming plans for it. Moreover, this vacuum has a massive suction of 5000Pa, which effectively sucks dust and debris away from carpets and hard floors, as well as the capability to adjust to whatever floor it is on to prevent wear and tear.
Here's a minor quirk: the Dreametech Robot Vacuum is also self-aware when running out of power juice. It will return to its vacuum docking and recharging station and resume where it last cleaned once fully charged!
Kasa Smart Light Bulbs
An essential aspect of the perfect smart home experience is how you can automate for functionality and aesthetics. For this reason, the Kasa Smart Light Bulbs are the ideal addition, as they give you multiple possibilities to illuminate your home as seamlessly as possible.
First, the light bulbs have dimmable 16 million colors and warm to cool white hues. With such a feature, you can automatically adjust your bulb's color temperature to match natural light patterns from dawn to dusk. Using Kasa's intelligent light bulb app, you can create color presets to save for your everyday home experience or more festive seasons. You can also keep track of the light's energy usage via the mobile app, allowing you to drive down energy consumption without losing quality.
Smart Automatic Curtain Opener
Now, having a Smart Automatic Curtain Opener may seem a bit off this list, but we believe this device is perfect for converting your own curtains into a natural and smart alarm clock. It is designed to wake you up when the natural light from your windows wakes you up. You also don't need to manually adjust your curtain, as this has a Bluetooth controller designed to operate the windows even from 20 meters away!
This Smart Automatic Curtain Opener also has more plus sides, including a silent motor to open or close your curtains and durability to support a maximum load of 12kg (26.4 lbs) for various curtains. In addition, the curtain opener's motor has a battery pack that can charge up for up to six hours and last for six months of use. So say goodbye to manual curtain adjusting and hello to an automated curtain experience.
Belkin SOUNDFORM Elite Hi-Fi Smart Speaker
And of course, to end our list, we won't forget to have more ambiance-related devices, and this time, the Belkin SOUNDFORM Elite Hi-Fi Smart Speaker finally completes the list, giving you a proper smart speaker that is not just dedicated to playing music on blast but also even offering a fast charging pad for your smartphones! And don't worry: the speaker has vibration-canceling technology in the speaker, ensuring that your device charges without interruption.
With high fidelity features and Bluetooth connection, the Belkin SOUNDFORM speaker has also integrated Alexa. It allows you to find answers online, manage everyday tasks, and easily control smart devices around your home—just by using your voice and with a proper speaker at your home.
