What is a Smart Home?
Creating a smart home means using technology that saves you time and money, while also adding comfort and convenience to your lifestyle in a secure environment. Equipping your home with smart home technology solutions allows you to employ devices to help you do things like:
- Check in on your home when you are away with live and recorded video.
- Control the temperature on your thermostat remotely;
- Turn on/off lights remotely in your home;
- Create “scenes” that let you control multiple home automation events simultaneously. For example, when you come home, set your alarm to disarm, turn on lights and adjust the thermostat.
- Control your alarm system using a single app on your smart device.
There are a variety of ways to outfit your home with the latest technology to support your smart home. When choosing smart home products for your home, you want to make sure that they are compatible with one another so you enjoy the benefits of a true smart home ecosystem and are designed with security in mind.
How to Automate Your Home
Home automation transforms your home to respond to your unique schedule or even to your changing mood. Using the modes feature in the Vector Security app, you can create automatic settings for your lighting, locks and thermostat. The following devices should be at the top of your list when automating your home:
Smart Door Locks
Smart door locks allow you to remotely lock or unlock your doors using your smart phone. This feature can be a highly convenient way to let visitors in when you’re not home, lock doors that you forgot to secure, and help reduce lockouts. You can also give personal access codes to pet walkers, guests and other visitors. You can even create scenes that will disarm your system when you unlock your door.
Smart Lighting
Imagine that the power of saving money on your energy bill is in the palm of your hands. With smart lighting, the dream becomes reality through home automation. Control your lights with your smart device or set them on a schedule that fits your lifestyle. Smart lighting even enables you to give the appearance that you are coming into a lit home at night if you have been away.
Smart Doorbell Camera
The smart doorbell camera is perhaps one of the most popular smart home products. That’s because they let you see and talk to your visitor without having to be home or opening the door. When you’re waiting on that package to arrive, let your smart doorbell camera be your eyes and ears while you run errands.
Smart Thermostat
The smart thermostat allows for another level of energy efficiency and the comfort of conveniently controlling the temperature of your home from your smartphone. Adding the smart thermostat to your smart home lighting package allows you to leverage the power of controlling your home’s energy ecosystem through one convenient app.
Smart Home Video Cameras
Using video cameras to capture what’s going on within and around your home can offer peace of mind. You’ll know when your kids get home, what your pets are up to and who’s at your front door. And you receive alerts from the Vector Security App when incidents occur.
Mobile Security
Give yourself the extra level of convenience and protection of being able to track and control all of the smart devices in your home with the Vector Security app. Gone are the days where you have to be home to know what’s going on. Even when you are home, the app gives you the peace of mind to know that your home is being monitored 24/7 through our monitoring center, that can dispatch emergency officials if needed.
The Benefits of Home Automation
A smart home is the most efficient when all connected devices work together seamlessly, with you at the center of command, controlling it all from one mobile app, you can create a smart home ecosystem that fits your lifestyle and budget.
For help choosing the right smart home package for you, contact us, for a professional smart home design consultation.
