Common Smart Home Challenges & How Pros Solve Them

Ensuring a Secure and Reliable Smart Home

Smart homes offer incredible convenience and a luxurious lifestyle, creating the ideal ambiance from morning to night, often with no effort on your part. The shades open in the morning, and you wake to the perfect climate. You hear ambient music streaming from your whole-home audio system, and when you walk out the French doors that lead to the patio, the music follows you to the heated spa. 

And on it goes throughout the day, a home that prepares itself in advance. 

While the experience is seamless, the technology is operating at full capacity behind the scenes. The home network and Wi-Fi system ensure consistent connectivity for the many smart devices and the home automation platform. The various devices must work together to create an integrated, cohesive smart home experience. The security and privacy of this interconnected home are protected by the latest protocols and best practices, safeguarding data and personal information. 

That is, until it isn’t. 

These are the common smart home challenges that expert integrators face. Ensuring a smart home that operates effortlessly requires a robust home network, multi-brand connectivity, and essential security measures. 

Here, we’ll explore how the pros at Elite Automation handle these top smart home issues. 

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Wi-Fi Dead Zones

Today’s smart homes often exceed 5,000 square feet and come with expansive outdoor spaces. Families in these homes expect smart home connectivity no matter where they roam and what devices they’re on. To achieve this requires an exceptional Wi-Fi network that extends the home network to the far reaches of the property. 

Outdoor access points deliver reliable, high-speed connectivity across large outdoor areas. They support Wi-Fi 6 or 6E, the successors to Wi-Fi 5. This network protocol and its extension were designed for smart homes. 

They increase capacity and bandwidth, enabling multiple devices to be on the home network simultaneously, without slowing them down. No buffering, dropped connections, or lag. They offer much higher speeds and better bandwidth allocation, ensuring a data highway with no traffic or congestion. 

All the smart devices work as they should, when they should. 

Multi-Brand Connectivity

A seamless smart home experience requires a connected ecosystem in which devices communicate with one another and with the smart home platform. When the shades rise, the lights dim, and the thermostat adjusts. When the security system detects a potential intruder, it sends an alert, locks the doors, and activates the security lights. 

It’s a home where one action or event often triggers a cascade of actions, driven by the connected ecosystem. 

But when brands aren’t compatible, connectivity breaks down, and homeowners end up using multiple apps to manage each device separately. This experience is far inferior to genuine smart home living. 

At Elite Automation, we partner with Control4, an industry leader in smart home automation. Control4 is an open platform, which means it’s compatible with over 25,000 third-party devices from well-known brands. You receive a home automation platform that communicates with the smart home devices and entertainment systems you love. 

Security Concerns

With the rise in cybersecurity threats, home security and data protection are on everyone’s mind. The Control4 operating system is designed to be secure, private, and personalized. Professional-grade security measures include secure remote access, robust encryption, and proactive monitoring. 

Encrypted data transmissions ensure secure communication between connected devices. The company and our team at Elite Automation monitor potential vulnerabilities and industry threats, address issues promptly, and provide updates. 

Secure, encrypted connections, two-factor authentication, strong passwords, and software updates that ensure the latest firmware all create a secure, automated platform and connected smart home. 

At Elite Automation, we believe a smart home is only as good as its backbone, your home network, and the security protocols that protect it. When unified, you enjoy an effortless smart home experience that is nothing short of awe-inspiring. To learn more about solving smart home challenges, contact Elite Automation.