Level Up Your Home: For More Reasons Than Safety

There's an abundance of technological solutions when it comes to protecting and sustaining your humble abode. From camera doorbells to motion sensor lights outside your home, you have unbelievable options. And utilizing everything technology has to offer is extremely easy and wide-ranging. To help you out, here are some tools and suggestions to “level up” your home and ensure your peace of mind when you go to bed at night.

Smart Home Security

Remember the days of plugging a four-digit pin into your alarm system? It was like a game of “beat the clock” before the alarm system chirped to wake up the whole neighborhood. Thankfully, those days have passed, and now the opening, closing, and locking of your doors can all be done through an app on your smartphone.

Better yet, Atlantic Bay is offering a discount on an ADT-monitored “Safe Haven” home security system! Just talk to an expert, customize your system, and enjoy white-glove installation from the trusted leader in home security.

Automating appliances

Updating your home's devices will help preserve your home's health by keeping it efficient and clean. How cool is knowing you can write your grocery list digitally on your refrigerator and send it to yourself? You can open an app and see what's in your refrigerator, so you don't have to make two trips to the store in one day! We even have the luxury of having items delivered to us when we're running low.   

An at-home, personal housekeeper cleaning up after your family every day isn't just a prediction anymore. Talk about living like the Jetsons! Programable robot vacuums run by themselves when you're away from home. Plus, they sweep up the dust and debris out of all those hard-to-reach places.   

But it doesn't stop there! Some thermostats let you set the temperature in each room of your home via an app on your phone. That means you don't have to be at home to save money on your heating bill.

Entertainment of the ages

We're accustomed to using remote controls, but now we're in the hands-free world of making a request out loud to your listening device so that catchy song you want to hear plays instantly. All-out jam sessions have never been so easy. Additionally, now you can dim the lights through voice activation and have your movie of choice play on command.

But remember, ensuring you have a secure, unique, and ever-changing Wi-Fi password will protect each of these devices from hackers. You wouldn't want to lose all these luxuries in a moment's notice, so consider setting up a separate router exclusively for your wireless electronics. So, if worse comes to worst, all your devices won't be compromised should you fall victim to identity thieves.

Smart homes help us watch over our kids as they get home from school, feed our dogs automated treats throughout the day, and change the music from different rooms in our homes. At the end of a hard day, how nice is it to know that you can program your home to match your mood? It's too bad it can't pour us a glass of wine and have dinner ready for the family, but let's just give it a little time!

Atlantic Bay is always here to help you get your dream home, and make it a happy and safe one.