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What do you buy the person who has everything? What about a smart home?
It may sound crazy but since smart home technology's becoming more affordable
eyewitness news' david hackert finds an Evansville family that's living in the
future
elizabeth logan's house on Evansville's eastside looks normal on the outside
but this box makes her home a smart one the console allows her to control of the
thermostat her front door and even the lights in her living room all from her
iphone "uh... well the company was going
around, you know promoting
and knocked on my door and i thought about it once before and i lost one of
my dogs and
the timing just wasn't right before and this time it was. And so he started telling
me everything i can do with my house sounds like all that's really nice" the
process is simple logan has a smartphone after this directly connected to her
console she gives a command on her phone
and her home responds. Robert kennedy from Vivint, the company that installed the
equipment says change in technology is now allowing customers
to control their home remotely "[Our] goal is basically to simplify
people's lives can be able to control everything in your home
all with one device." and it's becoming more affordable a basic system now
starts between one hundred in two hundred dollars the smarthome technology
is not about just unlocking doors and turning on lights,
today it's also about home security including the ability to see your living
room anyplace anywhere in the world
"and uh... it almost goes hand in hand
with each other just because of the way technology has changed."
she can do on one little device.
if there's a fire, Vivint calls the fire department.
it can notify customers and police of open doors can break ins and logan can
keep an eye on her living room from her phone even keeping an eye on her dog
casey. "My dog was sick one day
and so, um, I keep her
contained near where I put the camera so I could check up on her while I was at work.
and while there is a cost of the technology
logan says it's money well-spent
"But when you consider your security,
it's worth it." in evansville david heckard, eyewitness news.
in addition to the activation fee customers required to sign a contract
for monthly services the monthly cost runs between fifty and seventy dollars a
month