Home automation
Home automation and artificial intelligence are two constantly evolving technological fields. In recent years, they have converged to give rise to a new era of connected and smart homes. Connected homes are no longer limited to a simple collection of autonomous electronic devices. They are becoming interconnected ecosystems, capable of understanding and responding to the preferences of their occupants.
What is home automation?
It uses electronic technologies, telecommunications, and automation. Home automation manages functions related to comfort, energy, and home security.
What are the roles of home automation?
Home automation helps improve the daily lives of residents. A box, which acts as a gateway, controls and connects the various services. The user controls them through a mobile application, directly or through programmed scenarios.
Optimize your energy consumption.
Home automation can help save energy by monitoring and adjusting electricity, heating, and cooling usage. Appliances can be programmed to automatically turn off when residents leave, or to adjust to a schedule.
Save time
A controller allows users to manage, for example, closing shutters, garage doors, watering, and mowing. Everyday tasks that can be time-consuming and difficult, especially for the elderly or those with reduced mobility.
Secure your home
By installing sensors, it detects an intrusion. The intercom can be accessed remotely using a smartphone. The system can also include smoke, gas, and carbon monoxide detectors, or even a flood detector.
What is the relationship between home automation and artificial intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence enhances home automation with learning, data analysis, and advanced decision-making capabilities. Combining these capabilities helps create a Smart Home. One of the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence in home automation is its ability to understand voice commands. AI also adds an adaptive and proactive dimension. Using Machine Learning algorithms, systems evolve based on user interactions and collected data.
How is AI used in home automation?
Artificial intelligence is helping to create smart homes that are more personalized, more energy-efficient, nd more secure.
Intelligent automation
AI enables the creation of sophisticated automation scenarios. An AI-powered home automation system will understand that when you leave the house, not only should the lights turn off, but the heating should also adjust to save energy.
The ability to make decisions
The installation can make decisions in real time . It will take into account various factors, such as weather conditions, the presence or absence of inhabitants as well as all the information collected by the sensors.
Natural language processing
Virtual assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri allow users to control various devices in their home using voice commands.
Improving surveillance
Artificial intelligence analyzes data streams from security cameras and motion sensors. It can then detect unusual or suspicious patterns and issue alerts in real time. It can also use facial recognition through connected cameras to distinguish the faces of regular visitors from those of strangers.
Optimization of energy consumption
AI can analyze consumption habits and offer recommendations and solutions to reduce costs. It can also efficiently manage the use of renewable energy sources. For example, it can orient solar panels based on weather conditions and energy needs.
How does AI help create connected homes?
To transform your home into a smart home, you need to equip it with an ecosystem of connected technology . All home automation devices communicate with you, but also with each other or with a central control system. To achieve this type of installation, you must either plan for wiring or equip yourself with connected objects.
What installation is required for our smart home system?
If you opt for the wired solution, know that it has the advantage of offering particularly reliable equipment management . Such an installation uses different technologies, such as powerline communication (PLC), low voltage cabling (BUS) or even Ethernet cables. You must have Wi-Fi, and can integrate other technologies such as infrared, magnetic field or radio waves.
How does a smart home work?
A smart home relies on several elements. A central control unit, like a box, acts like a brain . It manages all communication within the ecosystem and processes the collected data. Different sensors will transmit information to it, such as temperature, movement, brightness, or even the presence of smoke. These will allow the box to react, for example by sending you a notification or triggering an alarm.
The box transmits orders to actuators, which act in return. They can turn lights on or off, for example. Finally, all connected objects and the creation of scenarios are done through a user interface . This can be accessed via an application, a voice assistant, or a remote control.
What equipment can be automated?
Almost any electronic device can be automated. In the security field, for example, it is possible to equip yourself with surveillance cameras, an alarm, and various detectors, such as motion, smoke, or flood detectors.
Finally, another common use is related to energy consumption management. Thanks to smart thermostats, a connected weather station, and door and window sensors, the house will be able to adjust the temperature.
The connected equipment market
Viaroom made a splash in 2025 at CES in Las Vegas with its first home automation solution, incorporating artificial intelligence, Viaroom Home. However, just a few years ago, connected home automation was rather expensive. Now, many brands have entered the market, contributing to the democratization of technology.
Thus, Leroy Merlin and its Enki ecosystem allow you to pair 500 connected objects from 25 different brands, in order to adapt your installation to your budget . Even the hard discount giant Lidl offers its solution, with different objects, from electrical outlets to light bulbs, which can be controlled via the Lidl Home application or through Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.
What impacts can home automation and AI have on ecology?
Home automation and artificial intelligence represent an opportunity to reduce your carbon footprint. A connected heater can adjust to your actual needs with great efficiency. Like all lights and electrical appliances, it will turn off when you leave for work, for example, and only turn on when you return.
They also act on water waste. An alarm can alert you to a leak, for example, or smart faucets can regulate your consumption. They can also manage water harvesting and garden watering. This impact is multiplied if you use renewable energy sources.
Are there any risks associated with home automation?
There’s a risk of addiction associated with daily use of connected devices. Especially for children, this can make it difficult to return to traditional methods. There’s also a risk of obsolescence . Replacing your equipment every few years can be costly and contributes to the growth of electronic waste.
Another risk, and not the least, is that related to security and . Connected objects can be particularly vulnerable to. In this case, the security of your home and your data could be compromised.
What is the future of home automation with artificial intelligence?
One of the improvements announced by the consulting firm Gartner is related to the evolution of AI in emotion detection . A home could understand the emotional state of its owner and anticipate their expectations, such as playing relaxing music or running a bath.
AI technology in home automation also opens the door to connected home care. It could monitor an individual’s health and alert their caregiver. Similarly, it could remind users of medications to take. Finally, home automation could extend beyond individual homes to buildings and offer personalized facilities to each resident.
Artificial Intelligence is significantly transforming the home automation landscape. AI enables home devices and systems to interact, learn, and adapt to user needs. It offers new opportunities to simplify daily tasks, improve security, optimize energy management, and deliver unprecedented levels of comfort.
