When it comes to smart home solutions, Z-Wave home automation systems continue to be among the widely used. Their products were the brainchild of Zensys, a Danish company that developed the idea to use low-energy radio waves to enable appliances to communicate with one another. With Z Wave home automation, you get a mesh network that lets devices communicate easily, regardless of your application, such as thermostat, lighting control, smart locks, door and window sensors, motion and safety sensors, and other certified devices.
A Z Wave smart home hub connects to the cloud or to a local network, making it useful if you are adopting the Internet of Things devices. So, by using the Z-Wave protocol, your smart home systems are independent from Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Also known as the ‘smart home bridge’, the smart home hub gathers and translates different protocol communications from all smart devices. This can be useful if you are using a smartphone without Z-Wave and it wants to communicate with a Z-Wave-enabled smart lock for your main entrance door without Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, as the hub serves as the translator between those two.
That said, you could say that the Z-Wave home automation solution is like the heart of your whole smart home network as it ties various systems and devices together in a single platform. This helps simplify your network, so you only need to refer to one smart home app to oversee and control all relevant applications and systems. Using the Z Wave smart home hub, you can do anything, such as automatically open garage doors, switch the lights on, adjust the volume of your speakers, and much more.
Another advantage of using the Z Wave home automation smart hub is that it eases congestion in frequently used networks, like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Moreover, it allows you to remotely access and control different systems while you are not home.