![]() ![]() Set up the Netatmo Welcome in eye-line of the entrance to your home and as you walk by, it will snap photos of your face and analyse them. Internet-connected security cameras aren’t new, but this is the first to arrive in the UK with facial recognition. Here, we’ve tried five pieces of hardware from three manufacturers, all of which are currently available in the UK. If you’re particularly handy and like a bit of a challenge, you can build your own smarthome system with the Raspberry Pi or another computing board at the centre, but for the rest of us it’s possible to pop into Maplins or PC World and come out with plug-and-play smart home kit, though it isn’t cheap. ![]() The arrival of Apple’s HomeKit and Google’s Brillo will likely help speed smarthomes along, making them easier to install and manage, but in the meantime there are options for home automation. It’s early days for the Internet of Things: we’ve been promised smarthomes, and so far we can turn on the lights from our phones. ![]()
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