The Best Features of Google Home

Does your business leverage any of Google’s excess of services/applications to achieve success? Google Assistant can also be a wonderful asset for your business; it can connect to your smart devices and speakers to create an very valuable tool. Let's review some of the best features of Google Assistant and how it can affect your organization.

Uncomplicated Automation
Productivity is the #1 goal of just about any office, and Google Home can help reach this goal via some simple automation. The device itself actually serves several purposes in your office, but only via integrations with other devices and services does it reach its full potential.

A significant example: your office thermostat or light switch. These devices can adjust your office’s environment when they receive a command via your Google devices. This provides a lot of control over your office’s environment that you might not have otherwise because you misplaced the remote control to your air conditioning unit, or you have to turn the light off manually. Alternatively, you just say, “Hey Google, turn off the lights in the conference room,” or “Hey Google, set temperature to 73 degrees.” This allows you to continue being productive without interrupting your work flow.

Extra Advanced Automation
One example of a web service that integrates very well with Google Home devices is If This Then That, commonly referred to as IFTTT. This can automate your business’s functions to a certain degree. Through IFTTT, you can connect your Google Home device (or whichever device you’re using) and customize the trigger for which command you want to utilize. These triggers will be activated by your voice, but there are some variations that you can try. Once you have assigned your commands, click Create Trigger, then click through “that.”

Additionally, you can search through any available channels that you can trigger with your Google Assistant, select the desired one, and fill in the required configurations. Once you’ve finished this process, your device will be all set for automation.

Activating Additional Commands
Your Google Home devices can also perform lot of other commands that you might find useful in the business setting, especially those that require multiple devices to be effective. One example is if your office is large and you can’t get ahold of someone via messaging or a phone call. You can utilize your Google Home device to work like an intercom to page the employee. This function uses the “broadcast” feature of Google Home to replay whatever message you want to any Home devices connected to the account.

A Google Home device can follow commands from more than just you, however. If you wish, multiple users can be connected to it, totaling up to six accounts with potential connectivity. The device can even customize potential answers based on who’s accessing the device.

If you permit visitors in your office, they can also take advantage of Google Home through Guest mode. They can connect to the device without having to connect to the Wi-Fi. Thus, you can keep your wireless credentials to yourself without handing them out to any stranger visiting your office.

Do you or your business have an engrossing way that you take advantage of Google Home?