Smart Home Benefits
You might ask: “What are the benefits to starting a smart home?”. This is a great question! There are multiple benefits to starting a smart home!! Read on below for our top 5 benefits of Smart Devices and a Smart Home.
1. Savings: Energy Bills & the Environment! We think one of the most important benefits is the savings you could see in your energy bills by simply installing a Smart Thermostat. You should also extend the life of your HVAC because your HVAC will run less. In addition to the cost savings, you are also eco friendly. Yes, you are also helping the environment because you are using less energy by running your HVAC less!
2. Remote Visibility & Easier Property Management The remote visibility aspect of a Smart Home is the feature we approached and utilize the most. An example of remote visibility is knowing the moment when a door is opened or being able to adjust your thermostat when the weather changes. From a safety aspect, having a Smoke & Carbon Dioxide Detectors is one of the smartest proactive Smart Devices you can add to your Smart Home. This is even more true for a secondary home or investment property i.e. a home where you don’t live most of the time. Since you are not at these homes with any regularity, being able to know what is going on at these homes is vitally important.
3. Increase Guest Satisfaction & Bookings Last, but certainly not least is how Smart Devices in a Smart Home improve your guests (if you rent your property) experience literally from the moment they check-in to your property (and technically even before your guests check in to your property). How is this you ask? This is because, your guests can go directly to your rental property WITHOUT having to go to a separate location, wait in line to pick up a key and then drive to your rental property. Guests now expect the ease of entering a code to check in to your property. Once they have checked-in your property, guests expect to have Smart TVs that allow them to log into their streaming accounts. All of this leads to more bookings and gives you a competitive advantage over other rental properties!
4. Convenience Other benefits include having the ease and accessibility of a smart lock. For example, when you drive to your investment property or primary home, you don’t have to worry about remembering to bring the key for this house. You can simply access these properties by entering a access code on your Smart Door Locks. Also, if this is not your primary home i.e. investment/rental or a secondary home, you can create a temporary door access code for service professionals and therefore not having to share a physical key to your property. This is not only convience, but an extra layer of security for your home because you can have the temporary door access code only last for an afternoon or simply delete the temporary door access code once the service professional completes their work.
5. Safety & Security One of the largest items that most people overlook when contemplating starting a Smart Home is the safety and security it can provide when you are home and even more so when you are not at home. For example, you can receive an instant notification of your phone(s) when a door is opened or if smoke is detected at your home. If you forgot to lock your front door, you can do this with a simple click of a button! Forgot to turn off your coffee maker or iron when you are travelling for vacation? With a Smart Home, you can safely and securely resolve these issues and have piece of mind while you are on vacation or simply away from home.
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