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Smart TVs, thermostats, lighting and appliances have made Wi-Fi smart tech a major part of daily life. One type of technology that’s well worth investing in is a smart garage door and opener. Smart garage doors provide many benefits, especially when it comes to convenience and making a building more secure. We’ll look at the various features of smart garage doors and openers and explain the benefits they can provide to your home or business.
App-Controlled Opening
A smart garage door eliminates the need to keep a remote opener in your car. There’s always the risk that someone could steal the remote and use it to open the garage door. This would allow them to gain access to the rest of your home or business. With a smart garage door, your smartphone serves as the remote. An app allows you to open and close the door at the push of a button, no matter where you are. This is helpful in case you need to let someone you trust in when you’re away.
Most standard garage door openers now use rolling codes that change each time the door is opened or closed. This makes them more secure than older openers that have a fixed code. Nonetheless, burglars can easily buy devices online that allow them to read the code when you use the remote. Then, they can jam the opener to prevent the code from rolling over and changing. Smart garage doors don’t use codes and rely instead on the signature from your phone. The only way someone can open a smart garage door is if they steal or otherwise gain access to the phone or know the code for the keypad.
Phone Alerts
You can set the app for a smart garage door so that it sends a push notification to your phone anytime the door opens. This makes it easy to check that your kids got home from school safely. You can also set it so that you receive an alert if the door remains open for longer than a set time. You won’t have to worry about whether you or anyone else forgot to close the garage door when leaving the house. If someone did leave the door open, you can close it remotely through the app.
Video Keypads
Many smart garage doors have a camera in the keypad that can send video and audio to your phone whenever someone approaches the door. Like a video doorbell camera, this alerts you to your family’s comings and goings and lets you know if anyone is snooping around outside your house. If someone you don’t know approaches your garage, speaking to them through the camera is an easy way to scare them away.
Porch pirates stealing people’s packages is becoming a major problem in many places. A smart garage door makes it easy to keep your packages safe. You can write in the delivery instructions to have any packages delivered to the garage. When the delivery person arrives, you’ll receive an alert on your phone and be able to see and speak with them. You can then open the door remotely so that they can put the package in your garage and close the door as soon as they leave.
Smart Home System Integration
Integrating a smart garage door with your smart home hub provides additional benefits. For starters, it allows you to open and close the door using voice commands instead of needing to open the app. If you have a smart thermostat, it can monitor the garage door to learn the times you normally leave for work and get back home. The thermostat will then start adjusting the temperature around your schedule, which helps to conserve energy and improve home comfort.
Upgrade Today
Upgrading to a smart garage door gives you peace of mind knowing that your home or business and belongings are more secure. While smart garage door openers cost more than conventional openers, the added convenience and security they provide make them one of the best investments you can make. Since 1990, Above the Rest Garage Door Repair has been a leader in residential and commercial garage door services in Colorado Springs, Monument and the surrounding communities. From smart garage door upgrades to installation, repair and maintenance, we have all your needs covered.
To learn more about the benefits a smart garage door can provide or schedule a service appointment, contact our team at Above the Rest Garage Door Repair today.
