4 Ways Your Smart Home Will Give the Neighbors Holiday Envy
December 02 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Control4 offers whole-home voice control for
holiday scenes.
You live on a street with tough holiday competition. Beginning
on Black Friday, the house down the street lights up like Times
Square, and the neighbors next door throw the best ugly sweater
party on the block.
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Control4 automates the entire house—from
lighting to music, security and more—delivering a little more "joy
to your world" this holiday season. (Photo: Business Wire)
Every year, millions of homeowners spend countless hours
stringing holiday lighting and decorations. Control4 Corporation
(NASDAQ: CTRL), a leading global provider of smart home solutions,
gives consumers a leg up on the holidays. Control4 homeowners
average 40 connected devices per home, and more than half of them
are using Control4’s smart lighting to enjoy added convenience,
security, and ambiance—an additional benefit during the holiday
season.
Here are four ways a Control4 Smart Home will make your house
the “gawk of the block”, while making life a bit more simple
throughout the rest of the year.
1. Customized Holiday Lighting Inside and Out
Holiday lights are symbolic of the entire season, and who
doesn’t want to have a home full of sparkling lights to show off to
family and friends? Control4 lets you sync holiday lights to turn
on when your music does and set smart timers, alerts and scenes to
turn lights on and off at certain times of day and night. You can
set exterior lighting to turn on the minute you walk into your home
and off as you go to bed.
Take your seasonal entertaining up a notch and create scenes
that automate every corner of your home. Impress family and friends
with a single tap that turns on specific lights around the house,
starts the holiday music, and even sparks the fireplace. A “Holiday
Party” scene can quickly get your guests in the holiday spirit by
dimming the lights to illuminate key decorative elements, piping a
custom playlist through speakers, and start playing “A Christmas
Story” on your living room TV.
2. Voice Control That Ups The “Wow Factor”
Let’s face it – the holiday season is busy for everyone and
saving a minute here or there can add up quickly. With the addition
of Control4’s Smart Home Skill for Amazon Echo, customers can
control their entire home using just their voice. Use Echo to
activate simple voice commands like “Alexa, turn on Holiday” or
“Alexa, set thermostat to 72 degrees.” Even cooking the holiday
meal or baking cookies is made simpler with scene commands from
Amazon Echo. Commands like “Alexa, turn on Cooking” can drop the
temperature in the kitchen, brighten lights, and turn on your
favorite foodie podcast so you can get to work quickly.
3. Holiday Music That Rings Through the Whole
Home
One of the best parts of the holiday season is undoubtedly the
music. Listening to festive tunes is one of the best ways to get
into the spirit, and with Control4 you can easily stream and
schedule music to play through programs like Pandora, Napster,
TIDAL, and more. Set music to play when guests arrive for holiday
dinner and change the playlist from jazz to the top hits as the
night wears on. If your piano has an audio source, hook it up to a
multi-room audio system to let caroling ring throughout every
speaker in the home – a trick that is sure to make your neighbors
say, “I need that in my house.”
4. Security That Mimics Your Behavior At Home
In the holiday classic “Home Alone”, Kevin uses a myriad of
tricks and traps to keep burglars at bay – but not without
destroying a few of the home’s prized possessions along the way.
Prevent break-ins without the destruction by programming your home
with Control4’s Mockupancy security feature. Mockupancy is a type
of “occupancy simulation” that makes it look like you’re home, even
if you’re not. Control4 tracks your lighting, entertainment and
shades usage while you’re at home and can replay those behaviors
(using slightly randomized times) when you put the house in “Away”
mode. To a potential burglar, it will look like you’re home,
watching your favorite shows and turning lights on and off as you
move throughout the house.
To learn more about how a personalized Control4 smart home
can make the holidays more enjoyable—along with every other day of
the year—visit www.control4.com.
About Control4Control4 [NASDAQ:
CTRL] is a leading global provider of automation and networking
systems for homes and businesses, offering personalized control of
lighting, music, video, comfort, security, communications, and more
into a unified smart home system that enhances the daily lives of
its consumers. Control4 unlocks the potential of connected devices,
making networks more robust, entertainment systems easier to use,
homes more comfortable and energy efficient, and families more
secure. Today, every home and business needs automation horsepower
and a high-performance network to manage the increasing number of
connected devices. The Control4 platform interoperates with more
than 9,900 third-party consumer electronics products, ensuring an
ever-expanding ecosystem of devices will work together. Control4 is
now available in 91 countries. Leveraging a distribution channel
that includes over 3,800 custom integrators, retailers, and
distributors authorized to sell the full-line of Control4 products,
with over 1,100 additional dealers and distributors that are
authorized to sell our Pakedge branded networking solutions only,
Control4 is delivering intelligent solutions for consumers, major
consumer electronics companies, hotels, and businesses around the
world.
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