The concept of connected home or more precisely of home automation scenario is still a bit new for many of us. The idea is to make life easier by programming the execution of repetitive tasks that clutter our daily lives. To help us, there is an easy-to-use platform, the IFTTT platform. And the EDF Pulse & You community actively participates in making everything even more functional. So that the home automation scenarios also correspond to your daily life, do not hesitate to share your experiences.
A screenplay is a scene-by-scene outline of a play or movie. It establishes the sequence of actions. This is the definition of Larousse. And not long ago, the term started knocking on the door of the first connected homes. Because this is indeed one of the opportunities offered by home automation: automatically triggering repetitive daily actions to free us from some constraints and thus make our lives easier. If in the cinema, therefore, the scenario of a film consists in cutting an imagined story into a series of actions, at home, the home automation scenario divides our daily life into a multitude of tasks.
The Engaged pulsers on the EDF Pulse & You co-ideation platform are already discussing the topic of home automation scenarios since a long time. Today, they have entered an experimental phase. Home automation scenarios installed and tested in real life. Turnkey scenarios offered by EDF. But also scenarios designed by the Pulsers.
To establish a home automation scenario, you don’t need an overflowing imagination. It is simply our life that is to be played. From the opening of the shutters to the extinction of the lights through the opening of the gate and the garage then the closing of all the doors and the starting of the alarm. You don’t need a programming degree either. Today there are technical solutions within everyone’s reach.
The IFTTT service to create home automation scenarios
Everything is based on two concepts. The notion of action which refers to a task to be accomplished. And the notion of a trigger which makes it possible to launch the action in question. For example, there are time triggers such as the one that orders the dishwasher to start every evening at 11 p.m., during off-peak hours. But there are also triggers related to the change of state of a system. The one that orders the heating to pause when the window opens or the one that turns on a light when someone enters a room.
To assist us in the creation of these home automation scenarios, the IFTTT service, for example. IFTTT? It deserves some clarification. Because even if the service was launched online more than ten years ago, it is not known to everyone. IFTTT for If This Then That. Understand, If This — that is the trigger — Then That — that is the action. The IFTTT service first automates our online actions. Among the possible scenarios: click the like button under a video clip and the song in question will automatically be added to your playlist. From ” receipts “ of this type are available. Ready to use.
What interests us here is that IFTTT can also be used in conjunction with any connected object in our smart home. Enough to program the triggering of our coffee machine when our connected watch detects that we are awake, for example. So that we only have to serve ourselves a cup when we arrive in the kitchen. Or activate a connected socket when you go into off-peak hours or change the color of a light when you go into peak hours. All to optimize our price ranges.
Save time, make my home more energy efficient, improve the security of my home, personalize the atmosphere of my interior, take care of my health or even avoid oversights. With the IFTTT service, all we have to do is define our desires and the home automation scenario will do the rest.
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What you must remember
- On the EDF Pulse & You platform, a co-ideation campaign that offers to test home automation scenarios was launched at the end of October.
- You are invited to put home automation scenarios to the test in your real life – those of others and why not yours – and to share your experiences of the question until January 25, 2022.
- Are these scenarios easy to handle? Are they useful? What are their disadvantages?
- As a key, a exceptional endowment for the most active Pulsers that will have been drawn.
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