How a smart home can keep everyone occupied and even provide some fun during lockdown.
We are currently in the middle of a global health crisis, Covid 19 has swept across the world as a global pandemic and millions of people across the world are locked down in their own homes. By everyone except critical workers staying indoors it helps to protect the world from more deaths and illness.
It’s increasingly looking like lockdowns or some lesser variant of social distancing may become the new normal at least for some time until a vaccine is found or eventual herd immunity arises.
Most people having to stay indoors presents households with very different kinds of problems than previously, For example, many home-owners will be working from home, kids will often need to be schooled and entertained and families will need an escape from the stresses and strains of being cooped up together for extended periods of time.
Lockdowns can be made much easier, more comfortable and enjoyable with the help of a smart home.
Work from a smart home
A range of Superfast Wifi options from Ubiquiti will allow you to ensure that you have the very fastest and stable connections to the internet from all over your home and garden. You can video conference into meetings, make Skype and Zoom calls without worrying that there isn’t enough local bandwidth in your home Wifi.
Ubiquiti’s Enterprise networking product Unifi allows the homeowner to have professional level equipment at home, it can even be configured so that the bandwidth is split between users or functions so you always have the bandwidth to complete your work even whilst the kids are doing their homeschool or watching cartoons on the internet.
If you’ve got one of our ultimate smart homes from Control4 you can even have the lights change to enhance work or relaxation, automatically or via voice or the Control4 User Interface.
Background music or sound effects can help you relax or get into the swing of things.
Keep the kids busy with a smart home
Perhaps one of the hardest aspects of any lockdown period is making sure that the children who are now at home 24/7 for weeks on end are able to keep themselves occupied and educated.
Again the home network is incredibly important, allowing kids the bandwidth to stay connected to their online home school, watch educational videos and then relax later on with their favourite music, Tik Tok or Youtube videos.
A Smart Home system such as Control4 can schedule routines so that the children are woken up gently by light, curtains or blinds opening or even music playing at wake-up time and again these routines often in reverse can signal bed-time, ensuring that the children can keep to routines without too much work by their parents.
Family movie nights with a smart home
If you are lucky enough to have a dedicated home cinema then this can be a great opportunity to catch up with all those family movies you’ve been meaning to watch with the kids, Or wait until they’ve gone to bed and watch a more mature film with your spouse.
With cinema’s and other entertainment venues looking to be closed during lockdown periods a little thought and capital put into a great movie room really does pay dividends. Make it look great with a 4k projector or TV and a fantastic surround sound system will really help draw you into the movie.
It’s a great way to escape and forget about things for a while.
A Smart home could help transform lockdown situations
Whilst we all hope that this situation is a one-off many of us are now aware that even with the current situation we may well be faced with multiple lockdown periods of some sort. If you are to be locked into your home for long periods, it makes sense to have a think about how to make it as enjoyable and comfortable as possible AND as easy as possible to work from for extended periods.
Get in contact if you’d like us to help make your life easier and your home smarter and more comfortable.