Modern household appliances can make life a lot easier and take over some of the housework. You no longer have to spend a lot of energy and time cleaning. You can hand over to smart appliances some of the important, but boring and time-consuming household chores so that you can relax more and do your own things.
One of the most useful household appliances is a robot vacuum cleaner. It cleans your apartment on schedule or on command, and you don’t even have to be at home. Now you can find a robot vacuum cleaner for all tastes and budgets, but in order for the model to be truly smart, you need to pay attention to the presence of certain features.
Does it connect to Wi-Fi
In the past, robot vacuum cleaners worked by remote control, so they could not be controlled from afar, for example, at work or at the cottage. A Wi-Fi connection allows you to automate household processes and make them easier to use. Now you do not need to go near the device, and all kinds of settings are available in the smartphone app: operation modes, cleaning schedule for each day. There is also displayed the charge of the robot vacuum cleaner and its location, which is especially useful if it suddenly gets stuck between the furniture.
With the help of a special application, which is designed for a smart vacuum cleaner, several users can control the device at once. The one who connects first has administrator rights, but if he or she has not enabled the function of limiting rights, any user can connect.
It is easy to connect new users to the management of the smart vacuum cleaner: it is enough to press the icon “Share” in the application or to scan the QR-code from the display of the already connected smartphone. There are three types of users available in the app. “Administrator” is the most important, because only he can limit the rights of others. The other two types of users: “view only”, when you can’t enable anything, or “control”, when you can manage any functions yourself.
Can you specify when and where the robot should clean
You can program the vacuum cleaner’s automatic work: you can set the frequency and cleaning schedule in the app, or choose the time intervals at which the robot vacuum cleaner will work. For example, from Monday to Friday the robot vacuum cleaner performs wet cleaning at 15:00, so before you return from work your house was already clean, and on weekends – at another time when it will be convenient for all housewives.
Smart robotic vacuum cleaners automatically map your apartment during the first cleaning. While you’re cleaning, the app shows you where the device is right now. If it gets stuck somewhere, you’ll find it quickly.
With partial cleaning, the user selects a point on the map, the robot arrives there and starts cleaning in a spiral within a three-meter radius, then drives back to the base. This option comes in handy when you have scattered something and need to clean only this place. Robot vacuum cleaner also independently returns to the station if it did not have enough charge for cleaning. After that, it will restart the process from the same place where it was interrupted. These functions work for those models in which you can build a map.