Home automation beyond cool
The role of your security system has certainly expanded in recent years at the same rate as cell phones. Intrusion detection is still the primary function, but home automation integration approaches technology on the scale of Star Trek. Alarm systems today can help you manage your home while you’re away. Your security system is capable of much more than protection against intruders. With the addition of wireless products, there has been a wide variety of devices available to truly turn your home into a smart home. Some may find these to be unnecessary additions, but most people find it hard to believe that they could work before they got these new home automation products.
With home automation there are limitless possibilities to do things with the click of a button. Your home automation system can start small with just a few key elements and easily expand to control many of your appliances. All of the following are available with home automation:
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wireless door locks
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wireless thermostats
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wireless doorbells
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Wireless lighting control
The installation of smart products provides the home and its occupants with several benefits, the same benefits that technology and personal computing have provided us for the last 30 years: convenience and savings in time, money and energy.
“Smart home” is the term commonly used to define a residence that has appliances, lighting, heating, air conditioning, televisions, computers, audio and video entertainment systems, security, and camera systems that can communicate with each other and can be controlled remotely on a schedule, from any room in the house, as well as remotely from anywhere in the world by phone or Internet.
Home automation can help you with your resolutions
Take control of your life
– New smartphone apps are a portable command center that lets you control door locks, lights, thermostats, and video cameras.
– Real-time notifications including safety reminders, temperature alerts, video clips, and anything else you want to be notified about.
More accessible to your loved ones
– With a smart home you can make it easy for the right people to access. Unique user codes can be assigned to provide different levels of access.
– With each person having a unique code, you can be notified when each person comes home and who is using the system.
– Temporary access can be given to contractors or pet sitters. Any access code can be time restricted to allow access only during certain hours.
Focus on the important things
– It’s easy to get too much information, so with new smart home systems you can filter out what you don’t want to be alerted to. For example, you can choose to receive alerts when:
- The door to your house opens when you are at work.
- you leave home without arming your security system
- someone changes the temperature of your thermostat
- someone opens a desk drawer in your home office
- your outdoor camera records a motion-activated video clip