Smart Home

Here at Box, smart living is made simple with our range of Smart Home tech and gadgets. Bring your home into the 21st century with amazing gadgets and appliances designed to make your life easier and your home more connected. With brands recognised for their innovation like Google Home, Ring, EZVIZ and more all trying their hand in the world of Smart Home tech, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Get your Smart Home tech and gadgets now and be on your way to living, working and growing smarter.

Getting Started with Smart Tech

Starting things off, it is essential to know just how important having the right smartphone is in setting up your home with smart tech, as your mobile devices often act as a hub where your smart tech can be controlled via compatible apps and settings. All the latest smartphones will likely support the smart tech apps found in their app stores, so just having an up to date mobile should suffice. Another important consideration is your home networking setup. Perhaps even more important than your smartphone, your Wi-Fi router will determine how you are able to get online and support your smart home ecosystem with a wireless internet connection. To ensue your entire home is covered and that all your smart home tech is able to get online, Wi-Fi range extenders or Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi systems may be an appropriate purchase.

Smart Home Tech

Smart Plugs are one of the most popular smart home gadgets currently, offering homeowners the ability to remotely control their outlets and connected devices to save energy simply and efficiently. Using set timers or simple voice commands, smart plugs are able to switch their power outputs on or off, so that they are only active when you need them to be, as opposed to always being left on when nothing is connected, or the connected device is no longer in use. Brands like TP-Link have done a great job making smart plugs more affordable and more accessible to homeowners with multi-pack variants available so that you can get your entire household setup with these more energy-efficient plugs. Similarly, smart lighting bulbs are able to offer the same energy-efficient solutions but for your home’s lighting. With unique variations available such as dimmable smart lighting and colour-changing smart lighting, in addition to smart lighting that works with your voice commands assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, you can customise your house and get your energy-efficient lighting systems setup to suit your interior needs as well as your control needs.

Another extremely popular area of smart tech, which has arose as a result of the recent energy price inflations and cost of living crisis, is smart heating. By having better accessibility and control over your home’s heating, using smart radiator valves and similar smart gadgets, you can get a handle on your heating bills and really begin to see savings when it comes to your outgoings. You can also utilise smart thermostats to set automatic schedules for more intelligent temperature control throughout your entire home. Brands like Hive and Netatmo are particularly well-versed in this department of smart tech and can be purchased for as little as £25.99, which means a relatively small investment can end up savings you large amounts.

Smart Cameras and Surveillance

When aiming to establish a fully connected home setup using smart tech and gadgets, smart cameras are truly essential as they offer seamless visibility throughout your home’s interior and exterior, depending on the model. While some smart cameras do come equipped with incredibly useful tools like 1080p video resolutions, motion detection activity and even night vision functionality that make it easy to see exactly what is going on inside and outside your home, when you really want complete peace-of-mind in your home’s safety, it might also be worth investing in CCTV systems and security cameras which are optimised for uninterrupted surveillance. To go along with your new camera system, you might also find it useful to invest in some additional smart home safety gadgets which will help to make your home that much safer, including the likes of security lighting and even some CCTV NVR and DVRS. Here at Box, we offer everything you need not just to streamline your home using smart gadgets but to also help you feel like are more in control in the areas that truly matter.

Carrying on in the same vein of surveillance and security, we also stock a wide range of smart doorbells and alarm systems. These types of smart home gadgets have been incredibly popular over recent years and can be found on many modern homes just because of the level of convenience they offer at a relatively affordable price and with a relatively simple setup process. Many smart doorbells not only offer HD video and multiple viewing angles of your front entrances, but also enable two-way communication so you can respond to couriers, guests and more without ever having to physically answer your door. Smart alarms are useful as a kind of ‘last line of defence’ alerting you to intruders via motion sensors even if you aren’t at home, so you can get in contact with the authorities, while those nearby are made aware of the situation via the siren emitted. For coverage throughout your entire home, you can even purchase Family Kits.

Wearable Smart Tech

Going outside of the home now, smart gadgets in general are able to help you be more connected wherever you find yourself. Those looking to make the most of an active lifestyle will be able to really see their progress with help from gadgets like smart watches and activity trackers. Activity trackers are remarkable helpful fitness companions that will supply you with all the relevant metrics and analytics that contribute to your fitness goals. Brands like Fitbit and Huawei have already established themselves as innovators in the wearable smart tech market and look to only continue this trend as more and more brands try their hand. Smart watches offer similar utility as activity trackers but go even further in terms of functionality and style acting as a wearable smartphone to an extent. Take calls, respond to messages and listen to your audio, all while you continue to track your fitness progress a Smart Watch from the likes of tech pioneers Apple.

Electronic Vehicles

The smart gadget journey continues outside of the home with our selection of Electric Vehicles available, including the likes of Electric Bikes, Electric Scooters, Electric Go Karts and more, which offers the modern commuter a brand-new way of navigating urban cityscapes. With models available which are capable of covering long distances with respectable top speeds, our e-scooter ranges really do represent a smarter way of travelling. Adults and children can enjoy the convenience and the excitement of modern electric vehicles also with models available for a variety of age ranges.

One of our most popular smart gadgets, as you might expect, is drones. Drone technology has perhaps seen the most significant advancements in recent years than any other area of smart tech, simply due to the popular demand of drones in general and the growing ambition of drone hobbyists to explore further and capture that perfect shot. Our selection features both consumer drones which are more affordable and feature more straight-forward designs at the cost of some recording quality, and professional drones which will cost a bit more but will offer pro-level aerial photography opportunities alongside a host of additional features. Right now you can purchase your drones on finance using PayPal Credit to make your entry into the growing world of aerial photography more affordable.

Shop Smart Home Tech and Gadgets Now

The number of households making the transition into this new, connected way of living with smart tech is increasing daily. It doesn’t matter if all you decide to opt for is a smart speaker to help you enjoy your favourite songs while you carry out housework, or if you have are committing to a grand smart home setup complete with everything from a smart camera system to a smart watch, we have what you are looking for here at Box with affordable prices available and even the opportunity to spread your investment costs across our 0% payment plans with PayPal Credit. So start shopping for yours now!