The Day-to-Day Benefits of a Smart Home Security System
Live Through a Day in the Life of Your Smart Home to Learn Why Home Security Matters
Life and work often involve a lot of traveling. A home security system is the best way to keep your peace of mind while you are away. That’s why Reference Audio Video & Security offers our clients in Cedar Rapids, IA, all the latest security products and technology systems. And it isn’t just store-bought cameras and alarms we are talking about. We work with architects and custom builders to create comprehensive, total-home, and design-oriented solutions.
To give you an idea of our state-of-the-art security products and technology systems, here is a brief overview of a day in the life of your smart home.
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Morning
You are having dinner at your favorite restaurant and receive a notification on your phone. It is from the Control4 app, informing you motion was detected by the front yard sensors that Reference Audio Video & Security installed a few months back. These motion sensors are integrated into your lighting control system, so you know the front yard lights are automatically turned on. You excuse yourself from the table and have a look at your phone. On the screen, you see crisp live footage from the IC-Realtime dome camera with its fisheye lens showing you the entire yard. Someone is walking toward the door. It’s your trusted delivery driver bringing an urgent package you’ve been waiting for. Without switching apps, you greet the delivery person through the smart doorbell’s intercom.
Afternoon
Let’s say you're vacationing in another part of the world. You sip your morning coffee while checking the security logs automatically generated by the Digital Watchdog IP cameras around your property. It is midafternoon back home, as good a time as any for remote monitoring! Thanks to each camera’s latest-generation video analytics, you see no recent events have been logged. A slow day in the neighborhood and a hot one! Upon checking your smart thermostat on the Control4 app, you see the house is getting warmer and decide to roll down the Hunter Douglas motorized shades. As usual, they are preprogrammed to go back up early in the morning.
Night
You get an urgent notification while working late at the office. The motion sensors have once again detected movement. Without leaving the table, you check the surveillance camera to see a stranger pacing back and forth just outside the front yard. You tap on the scene selection menu and choose option 1, security. Immediately, the front lights turn on and the shades roll up, sending the potential intruder to try his luck elsewhere. You tap again to save the footage for your records or to provide it to the authorities.
Why stress over home security when you can seamlessly monitor and manage your smart home from wherever you are? If this sounds good to you, contact us, and you’ll be on your way to a better, smarter, and safer home.
