We could all use less stress in our lives, right? Absolutely. What if someone told you that investing in a home automation system could reduce your daily stress? What would you say to that? Vivint Home Security, a nationwide provider of home automation equipment and monitoring services, made that very point in this blog post.
Vivint offers wireless systems featuring both home automation and security features. So for the purposes of this post, home automation includes all the security and efficiency devices they carry. Now, let’s see if they really can reduce the stress in a person’s life.
1. Automated and Remote Control
One of the keys to reducing stress is reducing the number of things you have to keep track of. Home automation offers that to some degree, via devices like smart thermostats and motion-sensitive lighting. A smart thermostat can be programmed to maximize heating and cooling efficiency. It can also be accessed remotely if programming needs to be adjusted. As for motion-sensitive lighting, it eliminates the need to walk around the house and turn lights off.
You may stress over your monthly energy bills. You may stress so much that you are constantly turning the thermostat down and running around checking lights. Home automation takes care of those tasks for you.
2. Checking Your Property During the Day
Every now and again there is reason to stress over your home and property while you are at work. Maybe you’re having contractors do a remodeling job in the kitchen. Perhaps you have hired a new babysitter you’re not fully comfortable with yet. Whatever the case might be, home automation offers opportunities to check in throughout the day.
With video surveillance, you can check what is happening at your home in real time. And if your cameras are equipped with two-way audio, you can even communicate with anyone who happens to be home. That is helpful for all sorts of situations.
If you worry about the kids being home alone for a few hours after school, video cameras with two-way audio can help put your mind at ease. You can check in on them every afternoon. If they need your help, they can send you an alert and you can bring up a video feed.
3. Protection While You’re Away
Stress is something most of us want to avoid while we are on vacation. Where your home and property are concerned, automation and security equipment are an immense help in the sense that you don’t have to leave your home completely unprotected for a week or two. You have video cameras offering live feeds 24 hours a day. You have sensors on windows and doors. You have monitored smoke and CO alarms.
Home automation even allows you to program lighting to make it appear as though people are moving throughout your home. Even opening and closing the garage door remotely can help prevent crime by giving the impression that someone is home.
4. Around-the-Clock Monitoring
Tie everything together with around-the-clock monitoring and you have a terrific way to reduce some of the stress in your life. With a professional monitoring package, someone is keeping an eye on your home every minute of the day, every day of the week, every week of the year. Whether you are physically home or not, the monitoring provider has you covered.
Home automation is not guaranteed to reduce the stress in your life. Still, the potential is there. It is all in how you use a home automation system to address those things that cause you stress.
