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automation system. Its range of smart home alarm systems have been developed to work with leading voice assistants on the market such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Not only does this allow controlling your smart alarm much easier, but this functionality also offers the ultimate convenience to control your security gadgets using just your voice. A collaboration with smart lighting brand, Philips Hue, offers an exceptional deterrent of light and sound through connectivity via Yale’s app. On top of these handy functions, a longstanding partnership with home automation software Samsung SmartThings offers Yale customers the possibility to connect, automate and manage a range of products from a variety of smart home brands.
Along with these external partners, Yale has also developed its smart security products to work together all under one convenient app, giving users the ultimate control over their devices in one place.
Consumer confidence
Alongside convenience and connectivity, it’s also important that wholesalers become aware of the messaging surrounding ‘trust’ when it comes to smart security products. Consumers demand convenience, but at the expense of home security risks.
As these home automation products are combined under the bracket of the Internet of Things (IoT), reassuring consumers that these connected products are, in fact, safe and secure is essential to ensure the adoption of this type of technology.
End-to-end encryption has been a particularly prevalent trend in the industry recently, a system offering peace of mind to consumers by ensuring their smart camera footage is protected against hacking. High quality products such as Yale’s range of indoor and outdoor
cameras offer end-to-end encryption across video and audio streams as standard to eliminate this concern - just one step the brand has made to reassure homeowners that its products are safe and secure. With the aim of making these connected products even more trusted and reliable, earlier this year Yale revealed its latest partnership with ‘Matter’, formerly known as ‘Project Connected Home over IP’ (CHIP). Matter is the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s (CSA) new smart home connectivity standard, designed to “increase interoperability between smart home devices across platforms,” backed by big players in the market including Google, Amazon and Apple.
Yale will also be getting involved by developing its smart security offering based on the Matter standard, which has been innovated to assure consumers that smart products are reliable, secure and compatible to work as part of a larger connected system.
The new smart ‘seal of approval’ has been utilised by Yale’s smart security portfolio with the aim to remove the final barriers towards a seamless home automation experience for its customers, working towards smart solutions that are accessible for all.
With recent statistics highlighting consumers investing in smart home gadgets could add around £16,000 to the value of their house, now is the time for wholesalers to stock up on smart security gadgets. Home automation products also working together as part of a larger connected system - for example, a smart alarm can be connected with a voice assistant so the alarm can be set just using your voice, whilst also easily pairing with a smart watch, to conveniently check and control the status of the alarm from anywhere at any time. This connectivity opens up sales opportunities for a range of add-on products to allow wholesalers to maximise their investment in home automation products.
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