Modern technology helps homeowners monitor both home security and home appliances at thesame time.

 

This one-touch home automation makes it possible to control each room in your house. Bysetting one central control panel, you can tell your coffee pot when to start brewing, your turnyour lights on and off, open or close the garage door, or turn on the garage light to help you getto your car.

 

You can arrive home after work to a gleaming porch light gleaming and your favorite musicwelcoming you. You can go to sleep to the sounds of your favorite DVD or your favorite latenightTV show. With this customizable home automation, you can program your house to keepyou with your family's routines.

 

Central to the home security appliance system is the remote control linked to the system center.Through the control system center, you use the remote control to operate the alarm system, thetelevision, your DVD player and stereo, the home entertainment center, and - yes - even yourcoffee pot. Some systems even have accessory remote controls that you can attach to your keychain and operate from your car.