How to AUTOMATE YOUR SMART HOME

Doing things for yourself is so 2020. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy picks the best products to make your home work for you…

Our homes are evolving. Smart speakers, like Amazon’s Echo or Google’s Nest devices, are flying off the shelves and into the hearts of our homes. Our appetite for digital home assistants didn’t even seem to slow during the pandemic, with 30 million sold worldwide over the summer of 2020. So if you’ve invited a virtual butler into your home, here’s our pick of what we think are the key products you should install if you are looking to make the leap from a smart speaker to a smart home. Once you have these in place, you can start stringing them together and automating much of your home life.