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Optimize Your WiFi Network for a Smart Home
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Optimize Your WiFi Network for a Smart Home

A stable connection is the heart of a smart home. Discover how to improve the range and speed of your WiFi for all your devices.

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Starting with Home Automation: The Ideal Starter Kit
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Starting with Home Automation: The Ideal Starter Kit

Want to make your home smart but don't know where to start? Here are the essential devices, easy to install and compatible with each other to take your first steps.

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Secure Your Home with Connected Cameras Without Subscription
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Secure Your Home with Connected Cameras Without Subscription

Monitor your home remotely without paying a monthly fee. Guide to installing modern IP cameras with local storage and smart detection.

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Control Your Lighting by Voice: Installation Guide
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Control Your Lighting by Voice: Installation Guide

Turn on the light with your arms full or create a cinema atmosphere without moving from the sofa? It's possible. Discover how to control your lights by voice.

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Connected Thermostats: How They Reduce Your Bill
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Connected Thermostats: How They Reduce Your Bill

Smart heating is not just for comfort, it is a major source of savings. Discover how a connected thermostat adapts to your life to heat only when necessary.

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Automate Your Roller Shutters for More Comfort and Security
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Automate Your Roller Shutters for More Comfort and Security

No more chore of manual opening and closing morning and evening. Centralize the management of your shutters and simulate your presence during holidays.

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Connected Lock: Never Lose Your Keys Again
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Connected Lock: Never Lose Your Keys Again

Open your door with your smartphone, a code or your fingerprint? The connected lock revolutionizes home access. Security, installation and uses.

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Smart Automatic Watering: A Green Garden Without Waste
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Smart Automatic Watering: A Green Garden Without Waste

Water at the right time and with the right amount. Smart controllers adapt watering to the weather to save water while saving your plants.

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Smart Water Leak Detectors: Avoid Water Damage
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Smart Water Leak Detectors: Avoid Water Damage

A water leak can cause thousands of euros in damage before becoming visible. Be alerted at the first drop thanks to these small sensors.

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Robot Vacuum: Gadget or Real Cleaning Aid?
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Robot Vacuum: Gadget or Real Cleaning Aid?

They vacuum, they mop, they empty themselves... Robot vacuums have evolved a lot. How to choose the one that will truly free you from the chore?

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Install a connected thermostat to control your heating remotely
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Install a connected thermostat to control your heating remotely

Turn on the heating before coming home from work? It's possible and it saves up to 15%.

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Automate wired roller shutters with WiFi modules
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Automate wired roller shutters with WiFi modules

Are your shutters electric but you have to press the button? Make them smart for €15 per pane.

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Create useful home automation scenarios (Departure, Night, Vacation)
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Create useful home automation scenarios (Departure, Night, Vacation)

Home automation is not just about turning on a lamp with your phone. It’s life-changing automation.

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Alexa, Google or Siri: which voice assistant to choose for your home?
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Alexa, Google or Siri: which voice assistant to choose for your home?

They all do the same thing, but aren't compatible with everything. How to choose?

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Measure indoor air quality with a connected sensor
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Measure indoor air quality with a connected sensor

Indoor air is 5 times more polluted than outside. CO2, Humidity, VOC... When should you ventilate?

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Installing a connected lock: advantages and installation
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Installing a connected lock: advantages and installation

Open your door with your smartphone or your fingerprint? No more need for keys to go running.

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Control your electric radiators with the connected pilot wire
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Control your electric radiators with the connected pilot wire

Do your electric radiators have a black wire (pilot wire)? This is the key to making them smart.

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Connected Automatic Watering: Save Water in the Garden
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Connected Automatic Watering: Save Water in the Garden

Raining tomorrow? Connected watering knows and cancels watering. No more waste.

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Secure your home automation network against hacking
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Secure your home automation network against hacking

Cameras, locks, light bulbs... Each connected object is a potential entry point. Close them.

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Monitor your electricity consumption in real time (Téléinfo)
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Monitor your electricity consumption in real time (Téléinfo)

The Linky meter speaks! Plug in a small module to listen to and see your consumption live.

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Install a connected socket to measure and control your devices
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Install a connected socket to measure and control your devices

The basics of home automation. Turn any dumb device into a smart device.

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Motorize your existing roller shutters (renovation kit)
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Motorize your existing roller shutters (renovation kit)

No more cranking chores morning and evening. Go electric without changing the entire shutter.

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Create a 'Leaving home' scenario to turn everything off with one click
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Create a 'Leaving home' scenario to turn everything off with one click

Stop going around the house to check the lights. One button, and it's done.

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Install a connected water leak detector (smartphone alert)
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Install a connected water leak detector (smartphone alert)

Be warned immediately in the event of a leak under the sink or behind the washing machine, before the floor warps.

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Control your lighting by voice (Google, Alexa, Siri)
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Control your lighting by voice (Google, Alexa, Siri)

'Hey Google, turn on the living room'. Gadget or real comfort? Once you get the taste of not looking for the switch in the dark anymore...

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Install a connected video doorbell to see who is ringing
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Install a connected video doorbell to see who is ringing

Reply to the delivery person from your office or vacation spot. Safety and practicality.

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Automate your garage door (remote opening)
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Automate your garage door (remote opening)

Open for the delivery person, or check if you closed correctly when leaving, all from your phone.

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Track your water consumption to detect leaks
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Track your water consumption to detect leaks

Water is the only energy that we don't follow. However, a leaking toilet costs €500/year.

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Install a motion detector for lighting (corridor, WC)
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Install a motion detector for lighting (corridor, WC)

The light that stays on in the toilet or the hallway is over. Comfort and economy.

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Create an Anti-Burglary Presence Simulation (Lights + Shutters)
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Create an Anti-Burglary Presence Simulation (Lights + Shutters)

Make it look like the house is occupied during your holidays. Much more effective than an alarm ringing in the void.

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