Smart technology that makes Sense
Craig Bryant, manager for product, services and innovation at Maco UK, introduces ‘Sense by Maco’, the first integrated smart window and door sensors available in the UK to utilise Matter Protocol.
Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of smart home technology – such as the convenience of automation, advanced energy management, and enhanced safety and security.
With 25% of potential home movers considering smart technology a ‘must have’ and sharing that they would pay an average of 7.7% more (up from 6.5% in 2023) for a fully equipped smart home, we should be looking at ways we can assist this when it comes to building and renovating homes.
One of those ways is with smart window and door sensors. In the past, smart window and door sensors have been complex and difficult to set up, providing little benefit to the homeowner, but all that is about to change.
Imagine coming in from a long day at work, on a cold, dark winter evening, you open your front door and in an instant your hallway light comes on, the smart speaker greets you with your favourite songs, and the heating is boosted for 30 minutes to get the chill out of your bones. Convenience, automated.
Alternatively, your child arrives home from school, hot and flustered from their walk home, opens the window in their bedroom and the radiator automatically stops heating the room. Energy saving, automated.
Or maybe you are a carer for a venerable person, wouldn’t it be great if you could set up a routine that alerts you if a door is unexpectedly opened during the night, meaning you can check on things before a real emergency occurs. Safety, automated.
A restricting factor on the uptake and implementation of smart products to enable this sort of automation was the requirement to have an additional gateway hub to allow products to work in harmony within the network of the building.
Anyone who wanted to create a fully integrated smart home with multiple smart devices, from a variety of brands would need several gateway hubs which then becomes costly, confusing and inconvenient. Thankfully the powers that be at corporations such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung and others have come together to bring us the Matter Protocol.
The Matter Protocol is a mutual language that all devices can understand, that will simplify and streamline our experience, making the benefits of a Smart Home accessible to all. Before Matter, each smart home device had its own ‘language’, but with Matter, all these devices can now speak the same language, making it much easier to set up, control, and integrate smart home devices.
This means you can mix and match devices from different brands without worrying about compatibility issues, leading to a more seamless and integrated smart home experience. It also removes the requirement for the additional gateway hub, and now this technology is available to you.
Introducing, ‘Sense by Maco’, the first integrated smart window and door sensors available in the UK to utilise the Matter Protocol. Available from Maco Door & Window Hardware (U.K.) and its network of suppliers, they can not only be fitted to new windows and doors during the manufacturing process, they can also be retrofitted seamlessly to existing Maco window and door hardware.
Sense by Maco removes the barriers of complexity and enables the benefits of smart security systems that can automate family life, enhance standards of living, and offer additional safety measures, to be adopted by everyone.
It’s no longer about simply knowing if your doors and windows are open or closed, it’s about what this technology can enable in the challenging and stressful environments of the modern world.
Technology, when implemented correctly, really does make Sense. The only ‘matter’ now is what you will do with it.
