Apple entered the world of home automation, with its product known as Homekit. The company developed support software for manufacturers of household items to transform their products to be compatible with HomeKit. The result should be that: blinds, lamps, air conditioners or stoves, among others, react with the instructions we give them from the HomeKit application, installed in Apple products. Today it is possible to give orders from iOS devices, Apple TV and Apple Watch. On the Mac we do not have it at the moment, but we hope to have it in the next versions as a standalone application or through interaction with Siri.
At the moment it is only found in the US But we have known that there is a construction company, KBHome, that builds your home to be fully adapted to HomeKit and take advantage of all its features.
They take as an example, a HomeKit implementation in a house in San José, USA The construction company offers three plans. They start with a basic module that costs € 2.500. The company provides the owner with an Apple TV and an iPad to manage the installation, and offer maximum connectivity to the client, being able to manage the home within it as well as outside. From this amount, we can add extras with the following characteristics: locks, lighting, blinds, ceiling fans, stoves and other accessories.
We always find users who want it all, therefore a recent study indicates that a house 100% controlled by Homekit, would cost around $ 4000 to $ 4400. It is an expensive price, but as an investment in a home it is an extra that many would be willing to afford.
KB home has stiff competition. weberhaus will start to deliver optionally New packages I let lie in their houses in a construction. It will also apply this national supplement to prefabricated homes built in the countries of the European Union. The implementation of these measures will arrive at the end of the year.