After all, I have to change the whole house!?

If you aim for a smart home by renting, a trap that becomes more and more smart.(Illustration: Ino Eue Sakiko) * Click on the image to enlarge

When you hear "smart home", what kind of image will you come to mind?

It is like this what I imagine.Everything is connected around home appliances, and all the troublesome housework is automated.In the room where clean air, comfortable temperature and brightness are maintained, electricity is controlled without waste, and the crime prevention system is perfect.The inhabitants can live a clean, comfortable, safe and healthy life just by gurgling there.

Of course, it is still in the middle of the road, but in the future, my home will surely have a heavenly living environment for the troublesomeness like me.I've believed so, but I'm actually getting a little frustrated now.

This is the trigger."Smart lock".

My house uses a smart lock called "Sesami" from Candy House.Originally, the key was an old style and the shape of the thumb turn was special, so I gave up if I couldn't use a smart lock that turned the thumb turn by electric.

However, CANDY HOUSE offers a really detailed service that offers an adapter one by one according to the shape of various keys.Thanks to that, I was able to introduce a smart lock in my home.

"Sesami" is a smart lock with a simple, easy -to -use function and high cost performance.In addition to locking/unlocking smartphones and smartwatches and NFC tags, it also supports voice assistants.We have a wide range of functions required for smart locks, such as auto locks after a certain period of time after unlocking, hand-handed unlocking Bluetooth and location information, remote control by Wi-Fi connection.In addition, the operation is light and there is no stress.

yes.There is no problem with smart locks.The reason why it looks like this is that it is because my house is a rental house.

Since it is a rental house, it is necessary to be able to recover the original state when leaving.In some cases, there is no problem with some DIY, but it seems that screwing the door is beyond that category.Therefore, it was installed using the attached double -sided tape, but the door was wooden, so the adhesive strength did not last, and it peeled off.

Smart lock falls while garbage out!In a state where the keys of the house cannot be opened

The worst was the timing of the fall.I left the entrance in T -shirts, shorts and sandals for the garbage in the morning, and when the auto lock was closed, I heard a loud noise of Gashan from the other side of the door.

My head was rugged because I was almost waking up.In addition, I didn't even wear glasses.The Apple Watch on the arm was the key, but it was hard to start the app because there are no glasses.And no matter how much you tap the Apple Watch screen, the motor sound just sounds from behind the door.Now that it's off, no matter how hard the smart lock works, the thumb turn will never turn.

Speaking of Doraemon, the two letters of "despair" solidified with "Koikatamarin" are as if they were falling from the top of their heads.In an instant, the front turned dark.

Fortunately, my Apple Watch is a GPS+cellular model, and you can make a call even if the iPhone is not nearby.I was able to wake up a friend who has a duplicate key and get the key to open the key, so I was able to avoid the worst situation of ending out forever, but it was a little traumatic fear experience.Needless to say.

「セサミ」のQ&Aには、取り付け位置に凹凸がある場合や筆者宅のような木製の場合、用途に応じた両面テープに変えるというアドバイスも紹介されています。しかしその参考として紹介されていた超強力な両面テープのAmazon販売ページには、「剥がすことを想定された用途でのご使用はお控えください」という、ネジ止め以上に取り返しがつかなくなりそうな説明があり、踏み切ることができません。

As a result, the style is now installed again with a spare double -sided tape and reinforced with tape from above.The door of the author's house is open to open, so it has been scared by courier services and Uber Eats, but I think that there is no need for the time being for the time being until a good reinforcement is found.

My friend who opened the key said, "I'm not smart at all," but I remembered the words.

Smart home appliances that have become convenient.Operation of multiple devices with one remote control

That was more than 15 years ago.It was still called "Internet home appliances" instead of IoT, but there were already home appliances that have led to the Internet since then.

However, the mechanism was different for each manufacturer, and in order to enjoy all the convenience, it was necessary to replace the home appliances of the house for the same manufacturer.At the recital of a certain internet home appliance series, we calculate the total amount with the editor and the total amount, "It's certainly convenient, but it's a tremendous expense.I was talking.

The date has flowed from that point, and if you have a device like a "smart remote control", you can connect things at home to a common platform such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant without having to buy a new home appliances.

In addition, it has become difficult to cooperate with home appliances from different manufacturers, through the mechanism of "IFTTT", which links different web services.Thanks to this, I have been able to smartly make a smart investment, from light bulbs on the bedside to air conditioning, television, fan, air purifiers, and living room lighting.

By the way, a "smart remote control" is a device with a learning remote control function that can be operated via the cloud.In my house, I use a product called "Nature Remo" to operate multiple home appliances such as air conditioners, TVs, and electric fans.

The point is that infrared rays are placed in the position that reaches each home appliance, but this is also placed on the sun (pier) of the window because it is still impossible to screw screws.

The road to a true smart home is long and steep ...

The number of home appliances that connected was gradually increased, and I thought that I was approaching my longing smart home, but when I look inside the house well in my friend's words, smart locks look like this.However, the location of the smart remote control was unstable, and even a smart speaker was exposed, and it was not smart at all!

In order to realize a truly smart "smart home", it may be necessary to start by building a "home" where you can use a smart lock for the door or incorporate a remote control or wiring on the wall.

After all, if you think that you have to work and earn money for a convenient and easy life, it seems that the two letters of "despair" will fall again ...I would like to close my eyes and continue on a smart home path that can be done in rental housing.

Author: Yuriko Ota

Tech writer, editor.From the dawn of the Internet, he has been involved in the launch of web directions, Internet -related free paper, and information magazines.Since his computer, mobile phones, smartphones, wearable devices, and IoT equipment, he has been conducting and writing, focusing on familiar digital gadgets and various services, applications, and related businesses that can be used through them.