The Internet of Things is providing that in a few years our house can be fully managed from the comfort of the screen of our smartphone to perform tasks such as lowering the temperature of the thermostat or turning off the lights in a room at a certain time. This is already a reality, but it is not fully extended to be something common as those smartphones or tablets are.
Automation and monitoring systems are usually expensive, but we do have a little idea, an old smartphone and things are very clear, perhaps we can manage certain tasks with an application like the one we have in our hands today called Perch. Perch is an app whose main objective is convert your old phone or tablet in that monitoring system with which to control everything in your house.
Following Nest and many other projects
Nest has been one of the highlights from Google when it acquired it, just as it did with the purchase of Dropcam, a camera surveillance system that constitutes another of the great promises of this company. We can add this to that battle that Google has against Apple Homekit, the Cupertino-based system that also wants to extend its power to those homes that are a good field in which to sell all kinds of products to ensure that the Internet of Things things will be a reality in a few years.
Since not everything is going to be to disburse a good amount of money, we can look for life and reuse those old devices that we have dead of disgust in a desk drawer. Because this is the main virtue of Perch, an application that you have available from the Play Store for free and that tries to recover those old terminals to use your camera and thus monitor certain areas of your home if you need it.
Perch has several interesting options like those alerts that are sent directly to your phone for when there is some unforeseen movement in those areas that we want to protect. And not everything ends here, since we can use the application to turn the light on or off in the room we want.
An app that awaits you
We already know several options for home automationPerch, we could say that it is the most intuitive and easy to use because we only have to install it on one of those phones that we have at home, point it towards the section we want to monitor and then we go directly to GetPerch.com.
From here we can watch live video of what the phone camera collects and configure certain settings such as that ability to assign a custom zone in that network that we have installed. Just when the zone changes, a notification will be received on the phone and that opportune moment will be saved. The phone will continue to record with the screen off to save battery, something that we can remedy if we connect it directly to the network.
Perch is a free and it must be said that it is in a fairly alpha-beta state, so do not ask for much at the time it is. We can not even use the Google account to log in, but that said, it is in its beta phase of development so it is very forgivable.
Apart from that it offers us a good service by being able to access different video streams at the same time via the web or another phone, something that other monitoring systems cannot say. You can even choose to communicate through one of those phones if you want to talk to someone at home.
An app to which we hope it improves Appropriately as the months go by and it lends itself to providing more services than it already offers in itself, it will surely have a great future as the Internet of Things is accommodated in all users, as have their smartphones and tablets.
