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How to Give Your Home a 鈥淪mart鈥 Financial Stress Test

Do you ever feel like your money is literally flying out the window? Parents have ribbed their kids about turning off the lights and closing the door for as long as there have been homes, but there鈥檚 quite a bit of truth behind one of the most common household pet peeves. Wasted utilities can be a monetary black hole in the budget of any family, and in many cases, the ways we鈥檙e wasteful aren鈥檛 always immediately obvious.

Thankfully, today鈥檚 smart home technology can enable every family to do some smart snooping for inefficient habits, and set up intelligent scheduling to keep a home comfortable while minimizing costs. Here鈥檚 some helpful advice to consider: Continue reading

Smart home tech for pet owners

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础辫辫谤辞虫颈尘补迟别濒测听 own a domestic pet. Pet ownership has steadily increased over the years, with more and more homeowners bringing a pet into the home. Pet ownership requires responsibility and constant care of your four legged loved one. The daily tasks of pet ownership can be made easier with these home tech products. Combine these resources of technology and your pet鈥檚 needs and you have solutions to some of the most common pet owner problems. Continue reading

How to secure your smart home devices

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Smart home devices are quickly becoming the norm, with IT research firm predicting consumers will have 5.2 billion internet-connected products in 2017 鈥 an average of four devices per household.

“The connected home is coming to fruition and it’s coming now,” says Yonomi co-founder and CEO .

We鈥檙e using smart devices to control the lighting, temperature and ambiance of our homes, to lock our doors and watch for intruders, to feed and play with our pets. There seems to be a smart device for every conceivable home need, but how secure are these devices?

鈥淭he biggest issue with smart devices in the home is that many can be accessed directly from the internet,鈥 says Bruce Snell, Cybersecurity and Privacy Director at , adding, 鈥淪ecuring the smart home requires that you think a little more about security than you may have in the past.鈥

What can you do to secure your smart home tech?

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