Back to School with your Home Alarm

Stay Connected and Secure with Your Home Alarm System

If you live in Murrieta, Wildomar, Lake Elsinore, or Temecula, your children likely returned to in-person classes this past month. With students heading back to school and extracurricular activities, families face new routines and schedules. Additionally, many parents are beginning to return to the workplace after working from home for the past 18 months. Staying connected to what’s happening at home while parents are at work isn’t always easy. This year, more than any other start of the school year, our home alarm clients want to receive notifications from the door lock and video clips to see who is home.

Your home alarm system not only protects your property and secures your valuables while your family is not at home, but it can also help you stay connected with what is happening at home with the kids while they’re home and you’re away. Here are three ways:

1. See When Your Kids Arrive Home

With a professionally installed home alarm system such as the ProSeries security system from Resideo and the First Alert Video Doorbell, you can stay in the know and watch as the kids come home. With the Total Connect App on your smartphone, you can receive notifications, view video clips, and talk to your kids through your security cameras. The ProSeries home alarm system makes it easy to confirm that your kids have made it home and don’t have any neighborhood kids in the house while you are still at work.

2. Add Smart Thermostats to Your Home Alarm System

In August and September, when the kids head back to school, it’s often at the hottest part of the year in Murrieta and Temecula. Conserve energy when your family is away from the house with a Smart Thermostat connected to your home alarm system. Additionally, you can keep it comfortable when you are home by using geofencing or setting a heating and cooling schedule in the Total Connect App.

Here’s a tip you will love: if your kids are prepping for a big test or writing a paper, set your smart thermostat to 77 degrees Fahrenheit while they’re working on studying. According to a Cornell study, warmer workers perform better. Seventy-seven degrees Fahrenheit results in fewer mistakes compared to setting the thermostat to 68 degrees Fahrenheit. In today’s competitive school environment, every little edge helps!

3. Automate Lights and Integrate Smart Locks with Your Home Alarm System

New schedules and changing seasons can leave you in the dark. With a connected home alarm system using smart home technology, you can remotely adjust the lights or program certain lights to turn on at specific times. You can even automatically adjust for changes in sunset. Make sure the kids have plenty of light to do their homework. Never come home to a dark house again after a long commute home to Murrieta or Temecula. Also, consider upgrading your front door lock to a smart lock. You won’t have to worry about your kids losing their house key and being locked out. Instead of carrying a key to school, they enter a unique code on the door pad to open it. Each family member can have their own unique code, allowing you to keep an eye on who is coming and going from your house. You can receive an immediate notification on your smartphone when the door has been unlocked.

Enjoy the Benefits of a Home Alarm System in Temecula Valley

The Temecula Valley is a great place to live and raise your family. We have safe communities in which to reside with Murrieta, recently ranked #6 safest midsize city in America. Our students also have access to great schools. According to Public School Review, the school districts serving Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, and Temecula have one of the highest concentrations of top-ranked public schools in California.