Why do people invest in smart technology? The main reasons are simplifying home management, convenience, luxury, and security. Is your Destin home a Florida escape from colder winter climes? If so, you’ll appreciate how home automation services make it easier to manage and secure your home from afar. And if it’s your permanent home, whether you’re working or retired, smart home tech gives you back more time in the day for what’s important to you.

While there are a plethora of smart home features you can add to your home, here are the ones most popular and valuable for your Florida Panhandle property.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – LED technology has created a revolution in lighting. You're seeing it everywhere. In cars, LED lighting has almost totally replaced incandescent and xenon lighting for bright, long-lasting headlights and taillights. In homes, LED bulbs and fixtures offer up to 80% better efficiency and longevity compared to incandescent ones.

But that’s not all. LED technology makes tunable lighting possible to change white color temperature and render color, creating more flexible lighting than ever before. And LED technology makes it possible to design impossibly thin and flexible light sources, like linear lighting.  With new options like Ketra lighting and low voltage LED solutions, GHT group is an interior lighting design company offering new ways to add functional and beautiful illumination to your Buckhead, GA home. Keep reading below to learn how LED linear lighting can add a new level of aesthetic appeal to your home.

Sometimes, technology adds needless complexity to life. Shouldn’t technology make our life easier? When it comes to home automation, it’s surprising how some products and solutions seem to forget that critical aspect. Sometimes you get new innovative ways of doing things, but often you have to adjust to the vagaries of the technology.

As a company that has been at the forefront of smart home automation for decades, Crestron believes technology should simplify, not complicate. With the latest iteration of Crestron Home, they continue to deliver on that premise with an intelligent platform designed to make managing a smart home as simple, intuitive, and natural as possible. As a longtime Crestron dealer in Metro Atlanta, GHT Group is excited by the evolution of Crestron Home and the ease it presents in leveraging the full power of home automation, from lighting to climate to entertainment to security and more.

OK, first we have a disclaimer. We realize that by the time you read this, Halloween may be only days away. If you didn't already have a Control4 system in your Alys Beach, FL home, you wouldn’t be able to take advantage of these tips for a spookier, more automated Halloween. That said, there are so many more reasons to get a Control4 smart home system, and we could get you all set up with one for the next set of holidays.

Now that we have that out of the way, let’s have a little fun. Explore three ways to make your haunt (er, house) the spookiest one on the block for Halloween. And if you already have a Control4 system, what are you waiting for?