Ten Products Making Homes Smarter

According to Realtor Magazine, these ten latest smart-house products are helping homeowners step into the future of real estate.

  1. App-Controlled Garage Door: Open and close your garage door anywhere using a mobile app.
  2. Smart Lock: The smart lock doesn't require a key but just a touch of your finger to unlock.
  3. Lightbulbs with a camera: The LED lightbulb features a wireless video camera built inside for security monitoring.
  4. Smarten up your light switch: Replace your wall’s light switch with a touch-screen panel for greater control over everything from lighting to security. The cloud-based smart-home lighting and safety console that offers automated lighting, home safety, and energy management.
  5. Talk to your lights: You can use an app on your smartphone or tablet to adjust the home’s lights and temperature and to schedule lights to automatically adjust at a set time of day.
  6. Temperature Control: The Thermostat will learn the temperature you like in your home and automatically adjust itself. It will also be controlled wirelessly by an app on your mobile phone.
  7. Create a Command Center: Home-management system offers the ability to start gaining greater control over household devices, all from one central hub. Receive texts or calls when motion sensors are triggered and a smart thermostat allows you to turn lights on or off and remotely control the thermostat to save energy.
  8. Smarter Security: Web-linked security camera that features a fisheye lens to gather a 180-degree view of a room that can all be controlled via a mobile app.
  9. Leak Detector: Attach wireless sensors around water-prone areas such as sinks and toilets where if a drop of water falls, an alert will immediately be sent to your smartphone.
  10. Text your Fridge: Ability to text your fridge to tell it to make more ice and features a wide-angle camera that takes a photo each time the door is opened so that you can pull up the image from your mobile device to see what food you have inside when grocery shopping.

 


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