Imagine an automated home. A place where you can live whether you’re there or not? Controlling your house remotely and with your smart phone or voice is the future. There are many ways you can optimise your home and there are many applications for heating/ cooling, lighting, security, entertainment and cooking to name but a few.

Smarten up your home with Lenovo Smart Devices. Designed to live on your nightstand, the Lenovo Smart Clock delivers delightful, visual experiences when you need them the most: in the morning, when you wake up, and in the evening, when you’re ready for sleep. Just start with “Hey Google” to set an alarm, enjoy music, check your next meeting time, control your smart home, and more all hands-free.

Control your lighting with your voice assistant like Alexa or through your smart phone. Light your home your way with sixteen point seven million colour options. You can configure your panels to what suits you best from building a wall of colour as big or as small as you want it.

Your smart assistant. Echo dot is in a compact speaker form and with a simple voice command function. It's easy to turn on the lights, turn up the heat, compile shopping lists, play music and more with a single voice command. Best of all Echo Dot and Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new features and skills.

Echo Show 8 features a powerful 13-megapixel wide-angle camera that digitally pans and zooms during video calls, a vibrant 8-inch HD screen with adaptive color, a new octa-core processor, and dual stereo speakers

Want your mood reflected in your home? Then check out the Philips Hue lighting range. The choice is huge from whites to ambient colours, from bulbs to strip lighting. It’s the smart way to light your home using your phone or a voice assistant like Alexa and Google Home.

When someone’s rings your doorbell or enters your space, you can see who’s arrived. You can also select motion zones and sensitivity to activate Ring Video Doorbell and Trigger Ring app alerts along with the camera to record movement. Great for building sites, baches and anywhere you want to keep an eye on.

Is it art or is it TV? The Samsung Frame TV is designed to be wall mounted and you can choose what art or even personal photos you want to see. When in standby mode, your selection is displayed. It looks amazing and true to how real artwork looks. The Frame can be controlled by Alexa and Google Assistant.

Do some of your devices struggle to make connection? Make sure you have enough Wifi to enable your devices with TP-Link Deco Mesh WiFi. The system works with your modem and internet service provider to create a whole of home WiFi service and you can monitor your performance through your smart phone.