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  • Your Smart Home Knows a Problem Before You Do

    Your automated smart home integrator now has even more power to fix problems in your smart home – before they happen.

    With Artificial Intelligence (AI), IP networking, and the cloud, Jackson Hole A/V integrators can seamlessly find and resolve issues in our clients’ automated homes without interfering or even entering your home. In many cases, these problems can be addressed before you even know there’s a problem.

    In his TechTalk at the 2019 CEDIA Expo last month, Miguel Alonso, VP of products at Nortek Security & Control, described how the cloud, when combined with IP networking, enables integrators to bring together a smart home’s transport signals in a solo physical infrastructure. This unification gives integrators the tools to connect and calculate faster than ever possible.

    As integrators, we can use a management cloud to connect automated homes and allow us to view, manage, and regulate the network of devices we have installed. The cloud also gives us the chance to remotely manage your smart home devices from anywhere – we don’t need to be in your home, or even in your state.

    Alonso described how integrators can see possible problems within your automated home before you ever even know there’s an issue. And since we can regulate and control these problems remotely, we can address the issue without even needing to be in your home – saving you a lot of needless interference.

    When you add Artificial Intelligence to the mix, the opportunities and solutions multiple on a grand scale. That’s because AI can analyze data from hundreds of thousands of smart homes, recognize common failure behaviors from others systems, and use algorithms to foresee a system failure in your automate home – before it even happens.

    Alonso details how AI can even take action to address critical issues on behalf of the integrator. Gone are the nights when a 3 a.m. problem meant having to call a technician to come out and fix the issue. Instead, while you sleep, AI can recognize the problem and resolve it – before you even wake up.

    The possibilities AI offers the automated smart home are growing exponentially, and your integrator can help you explore what can happen in your home with the right combination of AI, IP networking, and cloud storage.

    To learn more about how this tech can give your automated home unprecedented comfort and security, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities.