When you work more than 35 hours a week, you have little time to take care of chores, do homework with the children and prepare meals. Everything is going so much too fast during the week. Fortunately, there are several smart home automation devices that can help busy parents with their daily tasks. I present three of them in this article.

The Nest Cam IQ indoor surveillance camera

No matter how old your kids are, you’ll love the features of the Nest Cam IQ indoor surveillance camera . If your children are old enough to come home from school alone, you will know every evening if they have arrived home at the agreed time. If you go out on a Saturday night and leave your teenagers alone, you can also easily find out if they have turned your house into an “open house”.

This camera can also be put in the room of a baby or a young child. With its resolution in HD, its viewing angle of 130 degrees and its camera working day and night, you can see if your little one sleeps peacefully without having to enter his room and risk waking him up.

Nest Wi-Fi x Yale Smart Lock with Nest Connect

When you have kids who go to high school, managing your house keys can be problematic. When we were young, we all at least forgot our keys once and had to wait for our parents on the porch (or use more or less original methods to enter the house).

The Nest Wi-Fi x Yale Smart Lock with Nest Connect literally eliminates this problem. This lock can be locked and unlocked using a smartphone. And this is the kind of device that a teenager is unlikely to forget. But if he ever forgets it, he can always unlock the door using the keypad. You can, in fact, create a password for each member of your family. There is therefore no risk of forgetting it.

And as with the camera, you can find out every night if your child is home, because you receive an alert directly on your smartphone each time someone unlocks or locks the door. You even have access to the history.

The Google Home smart speaker

No matter how old our children are, they always have lots of questions for us. Sometimes we have the answer, other times we don’t have the answer. For example, the other day, my 4 and a half year old daughter asked me why there was water in the clouds.

With a smart speaker like Google Home , you can more easily get your questions answered. This device can obviously be useful during homework, but also at other times of the day. Are you looking for a recipe that will please the whole family? Ask Google! You want to know if it will be sunny this weekend? Google will tell you!