Find out how to protect your home for fall with tips from Yale
The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer, so let's not forget to properly secure our homes and gardens.
With the fall of autumn, we often remind ourselves to increase the security of our home. At this time of year, the nights grow longer and the opportunists roam under cover of darkness.
It is very important in the last months of the year that consumers remember not only about the safety of their homes, but also of outdoor spaces. Protection of garden sheds, gates and garages
in which valuables are stored will ensure peace of mind. It is at your fingertips with Yale's extensive range of smart and mechanical products.
To help consumers prepare for the coming months, Yale, a leading provider of home security solutions, has compiled a list of safety tips and products to make the transition from summer to fall smoothly
and securely!
Secure your front door
The front door is the main access point to our home and that is why it is so important that this entrance
to our living space is secured. The most important thing to remember is to keep our doors and windows closed at all times.
Do you often forget to lock the door when leaving the house?
If so, you are useful for you intelligent lock Linus ® Smart Lock from Yale. Thanks to the Auto-Lock function, the Linus ® lock locks the door immediately after you leave or after a specified period of time.
The user will have a full sense of security thanks to the Yale Access app, which will allow you to check the door status from anywhere, anytime. And if something unexpected happens, for example if the door is left wide open, the user will immediately receive a notification on his smartphone.
To ensure safe access to our home, the Yale Access application allows trusted guests to assign virtual keys for a period of minutes, hours or days.
Now, even if you are not at home, you can let your family and friends inside, and service providers such as couriers or dog walkers can be granted temporary access,
which will ensure your everyday comfort.
You no longer have to worry that someone will forget to lock the door or lose the keys.
Thanks to the Linus ® lock, there is no need to hide spare keys under the doormat or flower pot,
which would be risky as it could allow easy access to our home by third parties.
Instead, the consumer has full control of who enters the home and can see who came
and when thanks to the Access History feature in the Yale Access app that displays the access history.
The days are getting shorter and soon coming home from work in the dark will become our everyday life. Thanks to the Linus ® lock, the door unlocks automatically as soon as you approach the threshold, so you do not have to search for keys in the dark. When you integrate the Yale Linus® Smart Lock
with your Philips Hue smart lighting, your lights will turn on automatically when you enter your
home, giving you extra convenience and a nice welcome!
Do not keep valuables in a visible place
If left in a visible place, valuable items such as jewelry, electronic equipment
or money could tempt the thief to break in. Installing a wall or floor safe would keep valuables safe in your home. Yale offers safes of various shapes, sizes and degrees of security, thanks to which you will be able to safely store your most valuable items, regardless of the required degree of protection.
Protect your home with lighting
Turning off the lights could attract unwanted attention in the evening. Leaving the light on when you are away from home effectively imitates the presence of a tenant at home,
especially if it is accompanied by the sounds of the TV or radio on.
Sync Smart Home Alarm is a smart alarm from Yale that will allow users to have full control over the security of their homes. The alarm kits are designed for easy installation
with accessories already connected and offer the possibility of connecting up to 40 additional accessories to the same system. One of such accessories is the Smart Plug socket, which, via the Yale Home application, allows the user to control the lights and even turn on the radio in a selected room
in the house. In this way, we will avoid lighting the lights in the same rooms for a long time,
which could also be a hint for undesirable guests.
The socket can be easily paired with the Yale Sync Smart Home Alarm intelligent alarm system
and allows you to remotely control and set the operating time of home appliances, such as light bulbs,
using the Yale Smart Home Alarm app.
The Yale Sync alarm can also be integrated with Philips Hue smart lighting, making the lights combined with sound a reliable double deterrent for potential burglars. Colorful ambient lighting will signal that the system is armed, and in the event of a burglary, red, flashing lights will inform the neighbors of the event and scare away intruders.
Take care of your home and garden
In addition to lighting, a reliable camera will be a great addition to any smart home security system this fall. Yale's smart camera portfolio includes indoor and outdoor cameras to meet all your security needs.
The cameras from the Yale range will provide comprehensive monitoring of your home and garden, regardless of
whether you want to keep an eye on individual rooms in the house using the internal Wi-Fi pan & tilt camera or the internal Wi-Fi camera - Full HD, or Would you prefer to guard the door with a Wi-Fi camera for the front door, which for extra security will illuminate the entrance as soon as it detects traffic in that zone, or you would like to monitor your garden and exterior buildings with an outdoor Wi-Fi Pro camera and CCTV kits.
What's more, there is no need to worry about the image quality of the long autumn nights,
as all cameras on offer are equipped with enhanced night vision up to 30 m *,
which will allow you to obtain clear images around the clock.
The cameras can be controlled using the Yale View application and for full comfort of use
they can be integrated with the Yale Sync Smart Home Alarm system. Cameras in the ** Yale range are also compatible with leading voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa and the Google Assistant.
* Depending on the model of indoor and outdoor cameras.
** Except for Yale CCTV surveillance kits.
Secure valuables kept away from home
We keep most of our valuables at home, but let's not forget the cars, bicycles, mowers and barbecues that we keep in our garden sheds and garages.
In the fall, it is recommended that you move them inside and secure your garden gate with a high security padlock that you can find at Yale. Similarly, high-quality fastening cycle ,
which would protect against unwanted Jednoslad your interest.
Yale offers padlocks and bicycle locks with standard, high and maximum security levels that will secure your property, while the products with the maximum level of security are resistant to autumn rainy weather!
Yale's Sync Smart Home Alarm comes with an extended range of 200m
to secure outdoor buildings such as your garage. The geolocation function reminds users to arm the alarm when leaving their home, thus providing intelligent protection in everyday life.