The concept of the connected home or more precisely of the home automation scenario is still a little new to many of us. The idea is to make life easier by scheduling the execution of repetitive tasks that encumber our daily lives. To help us, there is an easy-to-use platform, the IFTTT platform. And the EDF Pulse & You community is actively involved 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 consists of a scene-by-scene shot of a play or film. It establishes the course of actions. This is the definition of Larousse. And not long ago, the term began to knock on the door of the premieres connected homes. Because this is 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 cuts our daily life into a multitude of tasks.
The Engaged thrusters on the EDF Pulse & You co-ideation platform are already discussing the topic of home automation scenarios since a long time. Today, they have passed into an experimentation phase. Home automation scenarios installed and tested in real life. Turnkey scenarios proposed by EDF. But also scenarios designed by the Pulsers.
To establish a home automation scenario, you don’t need a vivid imagination. It is simply our life that it is a question of playing. From opening the shutters to turning off the lights, opening the gate and the garage, then closing all the doors and activating the alarm. No need for a programming degree either. Today there are technical solutions available to everyone.
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 trigger that allows the action in question to be launched. For example, there are time-based triggers such as the one that commands 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 widely known. IFTTT for If This Then That. Understand, If This – that is the trigger – Then That – that is the action. The IFTTT service firstly allows us to automate 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 connection with any connected object of our smart home. What 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 us a cup when we arrive in the kitchen. Or activate a connected outlet when going on off-peak hours or change the color of lighting when going on 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 forgetting. With the IFTTT service, all we have to do is define our desires and the home automation scenario will do the rest.
Subject carried out in partnership with EDF teams
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 of your real life – those of others and why not your own – and to share your experiences of the question until January 25, 2022.
- Are these scenarios easy to learn? Are they useful? What are their drawbacks?
- At the end of the day, a exceptional endowment for the one of the most active Pulsers which will have been drawn.
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