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Smart Lighting, Plugs & Everyday Automation: A Practical Guide for Seniors to Safer Lighting, Smart Plugs, Simple Schedules, Motion Sensors, Manual Ba
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Series: Smart Independence at Home, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 14 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A lamp that is hard to reach. A sensor that turns the light off too soon. A schedule that keeps getting in your way.
Smart Lighting, Plugs & Everyday Automation helps seniors and the people who support them choose useful controls, build understandable routines, and keep everyday tasks manageable. Start with one real household problem and choose a setup that fits the person, the room, and the task.
Use the book's five tests for a good automation and Starter / Condition / Action model to decide what earns a place in your home and explain how each rule works.
Inside, you will learn how to:
- Compare connected bulbs, smart plugs, wall controls, physical buttons, and simpler alternatives.
- Check appliance suitability, plug load ratings, and what happens when power returns.
- Choose schedules, timers, and sunset rules that fit daily life and remain easy to pause.
- Place motion and presence sensors, adjust timeouts, and check what happens when someone sits still.
- Find overlapping rules, duplicate schedules, and confusing routines before starting over with a reset.
- Plan for power, internet, device, and account failures, with clear recovery steps and practical manual alternatives.
- Fit controls to everyday abilities, agree on household access, and review the information your devices collect.
Turn your choices into a workable plan with 12 practical tools. Use the Smart Lighting Control Map, Smart Plug Safety & Use Card, and Routine Clarity Card, then bring your decisions together in the Everyday Automation Plan and Everyday Automation Review.
Choose up to five useful automation jobs for a 30-day pilot. Decide what to keep, simplify, replace, or remove. Build everyday automation you can understand, control, and maintain.
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