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if you're the parent of a young child you certainly can appreciate the value of a good night's sleep but one of the biggest disrupters to nighttime rest is your child having to wake up and go to the bathroom but can technology actually help your child reach the bathroom without having to interrupt you and your night's rest we decided to add smarts to the kids room at the cnet smart home to find out to help get your child to the bathroom in the middle of the night the first thing we needed to do was provide adequate lighting specifically we remove the standard ordinary bulbs out of the light fixtures in the room and then we replace them with smart bulbs that we can control through the application to get the lights to turn on when we wanted them to we had to set up a trigger and that trigger is a door sensor which is mounted to the door and knows the state of door if it's open or closed so when the door opens in the middle of the night the lights will turn on both outside and inside the room for a night light to help your child get out of the bed and through the door without any hassle we certainly did not want our lights to come on when the door opens anytime saying the day or in the afternoon so we made sure to link all the lights to operate like this only when the smart home was in the night mode we're not going to stop here with the lights we're definitely planning to add more features and capabilities to the cnet's smart home kids room we want to look into adding increased security and better climate control that way you'll have more ideas to add smarts to your kids