Can you imagine leaving work after a hot sunny day and turning on the air conditioning through your cell phone minutes before arriving home? Or how about turning off the light you forgot on without having to go back home? These are some of the amenities present in automated properties, an important niche in the real estate market.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen an increased demand for smart home technology as consumers continue to embrace a digital lifestyle. We can say that home automation systems are changing the very definition of homes. They have brought in enhanced security, comfort, and luxury that were once a fleeting imagination.

Renters actually expect to see this technology in their living spaces such as keyless entry locks, smart thermostats, or leak sensors, features that some years ago were totally new to the market.

Due to the advancement of technology and easy access to it, nowadays it is possible, for example, to monitor everything that happens inside your residence in real-time, directly on your cell phone screen. Or even, control the temperature of the room, so that you get home and enjoy a pleasant feeling. Home automation also includes voice command actions such as turning the lights on or off just by “asking” them to obey your command. It’s like having a remote control of your home on your smartphone.

The advance in the real estate sector has been growing and continuous with intelligent technology, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT). In addition to security, luxury and modernity, automated homes have a high added value, which makes them better valued and more desired, which ends up being a great deal for investors.

Home automation systems are no longer the future and are, in fact, the present.