Travel Tips

Travel Tip: How To Keep Your Home Protected While You’re Traveling

homeBeing on the road also means leaving your house and its belongings unattended.

Here’s how to get a little peace of mind—and keep your home protected—while you travel.

Canary is a home security system that was born from crowd funding. It’s a complete system in one device that sends audio and video straight to your smartphone.

It’s intelligent, which means it adapts to your home over time, notifying you if anything is wrong.

Apple is coming out with Home Kit, which lets you use your iPhone or iPad to control devices around your house.

That means if your home appliances are compatible, you can shut off lights, turn down a thermostat, and engage a security system, all through voice control and using Apple TV as your hub.

But let’s remember the old common-sense standbys: Use a timed light and alert the post office to stop your mail so the house doesn’t appear empty.

Please, for everyone’s sake, save the Facebook vacation photos until AFTER you get home.

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