Smartify Academy track
Design
Plan rooms, circuits and controls so the system fits the way a household lives.
- Beginner 6 min read
Smart-Home Site Survey: Checklist and Template for Indian Homes
A step-by-step site survey for a smart-home quote or design: what to collect, what to measure room by room, how to audit the switchboard and network, and which red flags to write down before you price anything.
- Intermediate 4 min read
Choosing a Protocol by Project Type: Villa, Apartment, Retrofit and New Build
A practical way to pick wired, Zigbee, Thread, Matter or Wi-Fi equipment for the job in front of you. Start from the building and the client's constraints, then check the questions that decide whether a choice will hold up.
- Intermediate 4 min read
Load Planning for Smart Homes: Relay Ratings, Motors, Pumps, Geysers and AC
How to turn a site survey into a load schedule you can check against module ratings: what resistive, lighting and motor loads do differently, why starting current matters, and when a contactor belongs between the smart module and the load.
- Intermediate 4 min read
Designing for Local Control: What Should Still Work When the Internet Fails
A method for deciding which functions must survive a broadband outage, tracing each one through its dependencies, choosing designs that keep working, and proving it with an outage test before handover.
- Intermediate 4 min read
How to Quote a Smart-Home Project: Bill of Materials, Labour, Margin and AMC
A structure for a quote that survives the project: a room-by-room bill of materials, labour built from your own costs, the difference between markup and margin, clear exclusions, and an annual maintenance contract that says what it covers.