Keep your home secure STORY BY KYMBERLY DONOWSKI
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Whether coming to the lake or leaving after a great time on the water with family and friends, knowing your home and cyber footprint are safe affords a little more peace of mind. The key to enjoying lake time is knowing your home and information are secure. Recent advancements in technology and local internet service at the lake have led to the use of smart home systems; however, keeping that cyber presence secure is just as important as locking the front door on your way out. Introducing reliable internet at Lake Martin is a rainy day that has turned sunny. Although lack of connectivity once was a draw for coming to the lake, more vacationers and home owners are glad to see the laying of fiber cables around Lake Martin, and home security companies like Electronic Technology Group in Montgomery have found ways to use the internet to make lake life easier and safer. Thomas Williams of ETG said the better access to internet at the lake has made higher levels of security and usability possible. Smart home devices could make leaving your lake home for a day of boating – or until the next time you can escape to the lake – feel safer. There are helpful technological tools and applications available to keep your property safe and easy to control. Smart panels have many possible functions and programmable routines. For example, installing a digital keypad could allow you to lock your doors through a custom smart panel. Instead of giving the housekeeper, maintenance crew or friends using the house for the weekend a key, issue them a temporary code to enter into the keypad. This temporary code assures you
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