Smart home

If you’d like to give your Dad the gift of peace of mind this coming Father’s Day, you might want to consider helping him turn his home into a modern-day Smart Home. The products within the Smart Home realm can increase home security, reduce costs (particularly electrical and heating costs), and add convenience to your father’s daily life. Click on through if you’d like to learn all about several of these very useful products!

In this edition of the “Keep Your New Years Resolution” series, we’re going to take a look at making your home more secure, safer and smarter using the growing number of smarthome products out there. From IP Cameras to Locks and even thermostats, learn about some of the ways to make 2016 your smart home year.

A smart display is more than just a voice assistant, and there are so many unique ways you can use one of these great devices at home.

Continuing our look at the ‘connected home’ let’s take a look at the idea of keeping your home ‘lived in’ while you’re travelling. This is especially handy this time of year while the weather warms up and many of us start making plans to travel and get out a lot more. Whether you’ve got a road trip or a vacation coming up, home security can be a concern while you’re away. With all the smart home technology you can employ nowadays it’s easy to give your home the appearance of remaining occupied as usual even though you’re out and about. If your home will be unoccupied for an extended period of time this can be particularly useful.

There aren’t a lot of things Nest needs to improve on nowadays. It’s already arguably the best thermostat on the market. It not only provides you its learning benefits but gives you access to a huge network of coordinating partners. With no need to re-invent this wheel, Nest has turned to some physical and functional enhancements for its recently announced Nest 3.0 learning thermostat. Come take a look at the newest edition of the Nest!

CES 2016 is less than half over, and D-Link is already basking in the glow of multiple Design and Engineering awards. Here’s a look at what the networking and Smart Home company has in store for this year and what those CES awards are all about.  

If you've been thinking about modernizing your home with smart tech, you may want to start with these Lockly Secure Pro Smart Locks.

As the heating season approaches, it’s time to look forward to the snow falling outside, curling up by the fire to open the mail and staring at a ridiculous heating bill. This winter, help manage those ridiculous bills with a couple Smarthome Helpers. Inside, you’ll find an option for both Baseboard heating and Forced Air systems.

Are you looking for the latest in Smart Home tech and gadgets? The best place to check out those new devices right now is, of course, at the 2017 CES in Las Vegas, and I’ve got the scoop on two new Belkin WeMo Smart Switches that’ve been added to the company’s growing Smart Home lineup.

It’s the most wonderful time of year, and for the tech enthusiasts out there, you know that brings another gadget-filled extravaganza that showcases and shapes the future of the industry: the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Best Buy Canada has all the action from the annual event right here on the Plug-in blog.