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By installing appliances in your house, such as a smart oven or a Nest Learning Thermostat, you can now use apps on your mobile device to enjoy complete control of your home’s functions from anywhere in the world. Did you leave your home and forget to turn your oven off? You can quickly and easily power off these appliances in seconds from the respective accompanying apps. 

There are no limitations to the apps that are coming to market every day. Developers have created apps and devices to control home stereos, water usage, lighting, lawn care, garage doors, your dog’s food dish, and even grocery shopping – all easily and readily controlled by the phone you already have in your pocket. 

Smart homes don’t just allow us to avert accidental house fires from unattended ovens. These homes also allow us to keep our loved ones safe. Security systems can be installed that allow owners to monitor the comings and goings of guests and alert you when suspicious activity is detected. Doors can be locked, security systems armed, and cameras monitored from your phone, creating a safer and more secure environment for you and your family. 

For those of you with children, or those caring for elderly parents, these tools can make your life exponentially easier and give you peace of mind. Alerts can be sent to your phone when members of your family leave your house, and you can even keep track of where they go after they leave. 

If you have friends or family members who are elderly or disabled, you know how difficult even the most basic everyday task can be for them. Smart home technology can greatly increase their quality of life, and utilizing voice commands can make the learning curve much easier for someone unfamiliar with computers. 

Setting up automated systems for activities like lawn care removes unnecessary stress from the lives of these individuals. As the technology moves forward, more and more difficult tasks will become accessible, improving flexibility and independence in housing for people who might not be fully capable of taking care of their homes on their own. 

While many benefits of a smart home include ease and accessibility, there are even more perks to enjoy. Smart home technology allows appliances to work with the least amount of energy needed. For example, induction cook-top stoves now have the intelligence to heat exclusively when a metal pan is placed on top of it. No more burners running uncovered and no more pans being overheated. Stove tops can even manage a perfect boil while using the least amount of energy possible. 

Saving money on that water bill has also never been easier. Certain faucet technology can maximize shower water usage by shaping the individual droplets of water to create a fuller and fulfilling shower experience while still using less water than the everyday shower head. 

Saving money with smart home technologies is simple and easy. Timers and monitors make sure you only use the money and energy you want, and incredibly intelligent occupation detectors insure these products are only active when users are present. 

To further your savings, the addition of solar power or other energy transmuting devices can save costs, and help you become more self-sufficient. 

Not only do these improvements save on your bill payments, the resale value of your home increases with each addition of these technologies. It may be a chunk of change up front, but these additions soon pay for themselves. 

One of the best parts of a Smart House is that you can set it up to be absolutely perfect for you. Have the lighting set up at just the right brightness, not too bright but not too dark either. You can even set it so that the lights slowly dims brighter instead of a sudden flash of blinding light you usually get or set up which lights/lamps turn on in the room depending on your activity. 

You can set some soft music start when your alarms go off in the morning so that you wake up in positive atmosphere and not dreading the day. You can place speakers in different rooms to be set to play different songs at different volumes so you can always listen to what you want where ever you are in the house. 

You can also have the temperature of the house kept at your optimal temperature. The heating and air conditioner can be remotely controlled by a thermostat so that the house will never be too cold or too hot for you to be in. 

There are countless ways that a smart home could be keeping you secure at home. You can have motion sensors to detect movement after a determined time, such as at night or whilst you are at work. If the motion detectors are alerted you can be sent a notification to your smart phone, and/or have lights come on to make it seem as though someone is awake and scare the potential burglar away. 

You can have ‘detectors’ on windows and doors, so you know if one has been opened without you being aware or one has been smashed. 

A lot of smart homes have CCTV cameras installed that will allow you to look through any camera using your smart device or wall terminal. You can set sections of the screen to detect movement so that a pet or a tree in the wind does not set off the alarm. 

If you install ‘smart’ fire alarms you can receive notifications of potential fires whether you are in the house or out at work. If you know it to be a false alarm you can turn off the alarm at a press of a screen, instead of climbing up on a chair and stretching to reach the button on the fire alarm itself. 

As a bonus if you ever go away on holiday you can get these notifications for fires or burglaries can be sent to a neighbour or family member instead of yourself. 

If you install ‘smart’ fire alarms you can receive notifications of potential fires whether you are in the house or out at work. If you know it to be a false alarm you can turn off the alarm at a press of a screen, instead of climbing up on a chair and stretching to reach the button on the fire alarm itself.