Are Smart Home Technologies Right for You?
Did you know that smart home technology, also known as “home automation,” first began with the invention of the home thermostat? Now, with wireless home security, you can monitor your home (and pets, of course) while you are away, turn the lights on-and-off, and even control your appliances. And the possibilities only continue to grow and develop.
Home automation can give you control of almost every aspect of your home – and from anywhere. But, if you are unsure whether you really want or have a use for smart home technology, keep reading. You might not realize what you’ve been missing!
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Here are some valid reasons to consider adding smart home technology:
Remotely Engage & Disengage Your Alarms
Minimize the Risk of Intrusion
Allow the Tech to Do the Work
Monitor What is Most Important to You
Own Your Smart Technology
Remotely Engage & Disengage Your Alarms, Locks
Whether you are turning-in for the night or just arrived at work and can’t remember if you set the home alarm, the quick and convenient fix is at your fingertips. With smart home technology on your phone, you can engage and disengage your home alarm system, or even your door locks, as needed.
Why might you want to disengage your alarm, you might ask? Perhaps a neighbor offered to drop by and check on your cat this evening while you are out of town. During the week, your children might return home from school before you get off work. There are lots of reasons it would be nice to turn off your alarm before you get home, but without sacrificing your peace of mind when you aren’t there.
Minimize the Risk of Intrusion
Intrusion and burglary are likely at the top of your worry list when it comes to security, and smart home technology can help you be even more proactive about minimizing an intrusion. This is because smart home technology is an incomparable addition to your home security system.
Smart lighting, for example, is an excellent deterrent to intruders. Lights can be set to a timer or be motion-activated to give the impression that someone is at home and also alert you to movement. An HD video camera with Arlo can also be motion- and sound-activated to alert you to movement outside – or even inside – your home.
Allow the Tech to Do the Work
Maybe you want more than just security. Your life is busy, and you want to make things as efficient as possible. With smart home technology, you can program your thermostat to return to a certain temperature before you arrive home. As soon as you pull into the driveway, you can disable your home alarm – through geofencing – instead of having to fumble with a keypad.
These “upscale” features are affordable, helpful, and can easily be integrated with your wireless home security system.
Monitor What Is Most Important to You
Monitoring your home, your family members’ comings-and-goings, and your pet’s activity are all great reasons to consider smart home technologies like real-time HD video.
If you worry about your elderly parents at home while you are at work, you can integrate their security system and the doorbell with a video camera or speaker system so you can see who’s coming to the door. If your spouse or babysitter is home with the kids, HD video can help you keep up with whether they are home or if they’ve gone out for the afternoon.
Own Your Smart Technology
With NCA Alarms, you won’t lease your smart home technology from us. You will own your technology! You buy the security detection equipment, and we will provide UL Listed Central Station Monitoring.
NCA provides excellent security services and technology at an affordable price, and we already serve more than 22,000 subscribers in Nashville and Middle Tennessee.