Take Your Home From a Place to an Experience
Your home has the potential to be so much more than where you live. With today’s technology, you can make your home do things that would’ve seemed impossible years ago. Home automation is like giving your home magical powers. It is truly amazing how far technology has come and how you can elevate your entire living experience with the right system in place.
When it comes to home improvements, companies often say they want to give customers the home of their dreams. What we love about automation is that it often ventures beyond people’s dreams. With smart homes being a relatively new concept, there are so many ways to enhance a home that most people don’t know about. This is why we’re so passionate about home automation and helping people improve their homes in ways that truly exceed their expectations!
How to Increase Your Home’s Brainpower
Using your alarm system as the central platform, you can introduce a number of automated features into your home. With a smart home, you can:
- Control the lights, locks, thermostats, overhead door openers, pool pumps and virtually any other electrical device you can imagine right through your phone, computer or tablet.
- Set schedules for when the lights in your home will turn on and off. You can also set schedules for the locks to ensure your home is fully secure before bedtime.
- Set various scenes to activate multiple devices with a click of the button. By “scenes,” we mean the integration of multiple smart devices to create one holistic experience. For example, when you wake up in the morning, you might set the blinds to open at 7 a.m., have the lights turn on at 8 a.m. and raise the temperature by 9 a.m. Each of these separate devices are centrally controlled through the alarm system and work together to create your “morning scene.”
- Have all the lights in your home immediately turn on if your alarm senses a burglary during the night.
- Have your thermostat change the temperature to your comfort level automatically before you return home from work.
- Make sure you’ll never lock yourself out of the house again! Home automation eliminates the need for physical keys. You can lock and unlock your home at any time right through your smartphone.
- Select your “vacation” scene to change your thermostat to “eco mode” and have your lights periodically turn on, off and dim to simulate your presence.
- Give a friend, babysitter, caretaker, etc., access to your home without giving them a key. If you change babysitters, you can quickly and easily remove their code from your doors and alarm system to prevent their future access. You’ll never need to worry whether someone made a copy of your house key and you’ll never need to re-key your doors again!
What’s the Difference Between a ‘Connected Home’ and a ‘Smart Home’?
You can easily buy a wide range of smart devices from the store and use them in your home. While they certainly offer a level of enhancement and luxury, all of these devices typically come with their own apps. This means you need to use a separate app to control the lights, another one for the thermostat and so on and so forth. This is what we would call a “connected home.”
The difference with a “smart home” is all of the devices are integrated into your home security system. Unlike a connected home that will require you to learn the ins and outs of multiple apps, all you need to know with a smart home is the security system. A smart home also allows you to create “scenes” that seamlessly activate multiple devices at once. For example, if you’re going on vacation, you can set your “vacation” scene in the centralized system to activate the blinds, thermostat and lights simultaneously. You can program various scenes into a smart home, whereas a connected home doesn’t offer this luxury. Ultimately, a smart home is more advantageous because it includes a whole-home automation system with maximum luxury and a minimal learning curve.
Shoot for the Stars With an URSA Home Automation Upgrade
At URSA, we have mastered the art of automation to give our customers the very best that today’s technology can provide. In addition to installing only high-quality products—the same products we trust for our own homes—we bring decades of electrical experience to every project. Let’s walk through your home together and allow us to share the different ways you can transform your home like never before. The possibilities are endless with smart home automation. And with URSA, the value is guaranteed.
To request a consultation for home automation in Hartford County, CT, or the surrounding areas, please contact us online or call URSA at 860.628.8828 today.