What is the best “smart” home security system?

“Smart” products are connected to the internet. This opens up many features for use in home or business.

These smart features include:

If your doorbell has a camera included, it can automatically send photos or video to your smartphone.

A smart lock does not require a key, since you can use an app on your phone to control the lock. Park your car outside, then press a button on your phone to lock or unlock the front door.

Room temperature can also be adjusted from another location. Your personal space can be warmed up in winter or cooled down in summer. It will be ready when you arrive.

Benefits of smart tech to modern families

American Family Insurance encourages careful shopping. They add day-to-day examples of smart-product use:

Reduce energy bills
“Smart thermostats and smart lighting can help you use energy more efficiently by automatically adjusting or switching off when there is no one in that part of the home.”
Watch aging family, also children and pets
“You can also check in with an older or sick loved one whom you’re caring for, or even tell Fido to get down from the couch through a device’s speaker.”
Remote door-answering
“So, whether you’re at work, shopping for groceries, or enjoying that long-awaited vacation in an exotic, far-away place, you’ll have peace of mind knowing you can be ‘virtually’ present when the doorbell rings.”
Modest up-front cost
“…you don’t have to make a huge up-front investment to get it going — you can incorporate the various components a little at a time.”

Bring it all together

Smart tech easy to use

Keeping track of numerous smart products is easier with Holder’s Security and Automation, featuring Alarm.com. This control surface can rely on secure facial recognition to add to your security.

Holder’s uses the 2GIG® EDGE™ Security and Automation Panel, which is designed to be the center of today’s smart home. The design makes it compatible with an array of home technologies and products.

The panel allows users to seamlessly connect to cameras, doorbell cameras and directly view video in real time from up to eight different camera feeds. Further increasing security and data privacy, encrypted sensors and devices help eliminate system hacks and prevent account take-overs.

Plus, integrators are able to customize the panel to a homeowner’s personal needs with controls, rules, scenes, notifications and Smart Areas™ zone partitioning.

The facial recognition feature for also helps to protect your privacy.

“Facial recognition is a convenient plus, and to ensure consumers are extremely confident with this feature, the design of the 2GIG EDGE panel takes privacy protection to the next level. By processing analytics on the Edge, sensitive biometric data is never sent over the internet. And, the integration of anti-spoofing technology ensures only a live person can disarm the system,” said Quinto Petrucci, a V.P. at Nortek.

Nortek Control developed the 2GIG EDGE Security and Automation Panel to be the center of today’s smart home, according to their published reports. The design makes it compatible with an array of home technologies and products.

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Praise from security industry editor

Paul Rothman, Editor-in-Chief of Security Business magazine, described smart-tech 2GIG Edge as very innovative.

“Compared to its predecessor, Nortek made several design improvements including making the EDGE panel 50% thinner than the look at the slimmer footprint of the EDGE as compared to its predecessor,” he said. “The company also doubled the unit’s speakers and microphones to enable two-way voice communication, and they added noise and echo cancellation.

Additional features include built-in radio, wi-fi and glass-break sensor. It is built on a 1.6 GHz quad-core processor for more speed and power than its predecessors.