How does the Smart Home affect home security during the vacations?
A smart home is a safe home
An apartment or house where smart functions have been implemented makes daily life easier by automating various functions, such as adjusting heating or lighting to the habits of the household members. And when the family is on vacation, the security technologies in the Smart Home will make sure that nothing bad happens.
Safe home for the vacations
FRITZ smart bulb!DECT 500 allows you to create the impression that there is still someone in the house. Thanks to the extensive scheduling, we can not only turn the lights on and off at a given time during the day. Such a primitive mystification was already disavowed even by the ill-advised burglars from the Kevin movie of the 1990s. Modern securing your home while on vacation allows you to program a schedule on a weekly basis, and additionally allows you to introduce random elements to add realism. There's also nothing stopping you from directly from your beach chair, using an app on your phone (Android or iOS) to ad hoc control the lighting and manually turn it on or off, depending on your whim.
Another solution to provide security in a Smart Home can be FRITZ Smart Outlet!DECT 200 . At first glance, the device can only do one thing: turn the voltage on and off at the built-in outlet. However, if you delve into the details of the configuration, you will find that the possibilities it offers are extremely broad.
The outlet is primarily controlled by a pre-configured weekly schedule with 15-minute accuracy. we can schedule devices to be turned on and off, which can be any electrically powered equipment, such as a music player, TV, house illumination, etc. As with the smart bulb, there is also an option for random switching and manual control from the app.
But the smart plug's capabilities don't end there, as it has a built-in microphone that can respond to noise by turning on or off the electrical device connected to itself. In addition, it is possible to parameterize the sound activating the device quite precisely: you can specify its frequency in the range of 125 Hz - 4 kHz, duration and volume. Configured in this way, the device can alert a resting householder in the event of a broken window.
Built into the FRITZ smart plug!DECT 200 digital thermometer allows you to keep track of conditions in your home in real time. For example, a sudden, unexpected drop in room temperature can be caused by the opening of an unclosed window.
Secure SmartDom
An apartment equipped with smart home systems offers its residents not only everyday comfort. When building a smart system on an amateur basis, the first goal is convenience and home automation and security turns out to be no less of an added value after a while.
A phone application integrated with the system allows you to monitor the parameters of individual devices in real time and control them directly, regardless of whether you are on a neighboring street or on another continent - the only prerequisite is Internet access, common today.
Built into FRITZ routers!Box VPN server allows you to connect to your home network and remotely monitor your home through, for example, Wi-Fi cameras. The use of a virtual private network has the advantage over simple monitoring solutions that it offers absolute privacy: the video and audio material recorded by the camera is not published "in the cloud" or on the solution provider's server. As owners, we have exclusive access to it and only after establishing an encrypted VPN connection.
