Amazon’s smart home portfolio includes smart home speakers, smart plugs and smart light bulbs. The Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Spot and Echo Show smart speakers have taken the smart speaker market by storm. Featuring Amazon’s cloud-based voice assistant, Alexa, it’s never been easier to ask questions, play your favourite tunes, get live traffic and news updates, and even ask for recipes while you’re cooking. Amazon’s smart speakers also connect to other smart home devices, like smart thermostats and smart security cameras, so you can grow your smart ecosystem over time.
You can control all these devices without lifting a finger. As well as give you the news and weather updates, Alexa also lets you make calls, send and receive messages, and more. Alexa can keep you organised with reminders and alarms, whether that’s in the morning making your coffee, or when you’ve put your food in the oven in the evening. Dinner plans? Set an alarm for when you need to check on the food, just by asking. You can play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, TuneIn and more. To set your Amazon Echo smart speaker up, you need the Alexa app where you can add more devices.
Missed the forecast on the news or need to know what the traffic’s like on your way to work? Just ask Alexa. With an instant connection to the Internet, Alexa will look up the answers you need so that you can arrive at work on time - and dry! She’s also capable of converting metric into imperial, playing music and creating a shopping list. Just ask. As well as helping you out with homework and answering your questions, Alexa is capable of controlling your smart home systems and devices. Your Echo device is compatible with a wide range of products from smart brands including Hive, Nest and Philips Hue. Amazon’s smart plugs and smart light bulbs also come with Alexa built-in, handy if you’ve forgotten to turn the lights off in the kitchen and don’t want to get up!
