Traveling This Summer? Keep Your Home Safe with Home Automation

If you’re like millions of Americans, you likely have some summer travel plans away from your Georgia home. Whether you’re planning an extended summer trip at your lake house by Lake Lanier or Oconee or a couple of weeks in Europe, you’ll want to ensure you keep your Buckhead property safe. 

Even if you have someone looking after your place, you can ensure you’re always on top of what’s happening with smart, proactive security enabled by home automation. As a premier home automation company, GHT Group loves to show clients how to keep homes and properties safer with smart home systems. Here are three ways you can do it!

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Surveillance

Today’s security camera options offer many ways to keep an eye on your home. From outdoor-rated cameras with night vision to discreet indoor dome cameras on ceilings, you can have multiple views of your home at any time of day. The cameras can alert you to specific activities, like a car pulling into your driveway, a person at the front door, or unusual movement at night on your back patio. Your cameras can automatically activate when you leave the house, as you don’t need to be recording inside when you are home. Should the cameras detect activity, they can also trigger your lights via the home automation system to startle a would-be intruder. 

Sensors

Safety isn’t only about potential vandals or burglars. You want to protect your home from damage from things like water leaks. Water sensors alert you to a leak under a sink or by a water heater that can cause significant damage if they’re not quickly addressed. If you have a prized wine collection in a cooled room, you don’t want to come home to discover the refrigeration went out when you were several weeks away. Sensors connected to your home automation system alert you when the temperature and other environmentals are out of normal ranges. 

Active Security

Home automation systems coordinate various parts of your home to make it look occupied. With your lights, motorized window treatments, and AV systems on your home automation system, you can create the illusion you’re at home when you’re not. The system operates lights, window shades, and AV in natural patterns that make any observer think someone is in the house at all times. Your automation system can turn on TVs, play audio on your outdoor speakers, turn lights on and off inside and outdoors, and turn down shades at typical times for a lived-in look. 

If you’re interested in smarter security for your home through automation, we can help. We invite you to visit our 20,000-square-foot Marietta showroom, reach out to us here, or click the chat below to connect with us. We would love to help you!