The Convenience & Security Found in a Smart Home System
Enhance Your Family’s Safety with Home Automation
A smart home system takes all your electronic devices and puts them under the care of the controller, which automates and manages these connected systems. You access this hub via user-friendly interfaces like touchscreens, keypads, and your voice.
It wasn’t that long ago when someone reading those lines would have thought they’d picked up a fiction novel.
Yet, today, it’s become commonplace, with over half of U.S. homes having smart devices. What is it about home automation that rouses our interest? In a nutshell and oversimplified, it’s convenience.
While a smart home can do remarkable things, like grant us access to millions of colored lights and open the garage, unlock the door, and turn on the kitchen lights when we pull into the driveway, it’s the everyday conveniences and sense of security that draws many people to this land of controllers and automated wonders.
Let’s look at how a smart home system creates a more secure, comfortable, and safe home in Boca Raton, FL.
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Convenience
Consider the everyday tasks and routines that have become a part of your daily life. These actions have become so commonplace that we’re almost on automatic pilot when we perform them.
For instance, in the morning, you may adjust the thermostat, open the shades, make coffee or tea, and turn on the news or a special playlist. In the evening, you often follow similar patterns when returning to sleep.
Whatever your everyday routines are, we can program your smart home to take over for you. Whether scheduled at a specific time or programmed to start after you press the ‘Good Morning’ button, you can count on a smart home that creates the ideal environment.
Throughout the day, you’re no longer flipping light switches, manually adjusting shades, searching for the remote for the TV, or connecting to the Bluetooth speaker to listen to music. With one touch on a high-resolution touchscreen, you manage everything.
Security and Safety
Your smart home displays a screen showing the status of your home’s connected devices. Whether in the kitchen, at work, or around the world, you can glance at the display from a touchscreen or app and see if the doors are locked, if any lights were left on, or where the thermostat is set. Then, you can manage them all.
Should the unthinkable happen, and an intruder attempt to break in, we can have the home already programmed to automatically turn every light on to 100%, lock the doors, open all the shades, and flash certain lights to alert neighbors that something is wrong. At night, if you hear a sound after going to bed, you can look at the live video surveillance feed by picking up the touchscreen by your bed. Then, with one touch, turn on the flood lights.
A Sense of Peace
And that is a drop in the bucket of the capabilities of a smart home. Yet, for many, they are some of the most important. At ForceAV, we’ve become the trusted home automation company, serving South Florida for over two decades. To learn more about a smart home system or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact ForceAV today.
