For some students, the start of the new school year is synonymous with a new direction in terms of autonomy: going home alone after school. This independence can lead the child to find himself or herself without physical supervision while waiting for the parents to return home, a time when the child's safety remains paramount and largely depends on a well-secured home. To guarantee this protection, home automation solutions are becoming more and more useful every day.

The house, a breeding ground for danger

It's back to school and your child is now able to go home alone. If taking responsibility for his movements is an important step in his becoming independent, ensuring his safety while you are away from home is a necessity that should not be neglected.

Every year, 11 million people are victims of an accident in everyday life in France. Half of these accidents are domestic and cause more than 20,000 deaths, mostly children and the elderly.

Leaving your child alone at home can therefore represent a danger, a source of concern and should lead you to do everything possible to ensure his/her safety at all times.

In order to achieve this, home automation is today a choice to secure your home and ensure the well-being of your offspring in case of absence. There are many solutions on the market today to respond to these problems.

Facial recognition camera, smart lock... these solutions that make the difference.

• Once at home, remote monitoring is certainly one of the first things to consider if your child needs to be home alone on a regular basis. Thanks to remote monitoring, you are able to keep an eye on what is happening at home or outside your home when you are not there and thus quickly become aware of the slightest accident.
• A network of smart cameras positioned inside your home allows you to visually scan the rooms you want to monitor. Today's solutions offer the possibility to control these cameras directly with your smartphone or tablet, to follow your home in real time and to store the images in a protected cloud.
• The installation of an automatic gate that can be opened remotely, as well as the installation of light points controlled by a smart wall switch, are among the ways to make your child's arrival at home safer, especially when he or she returns at nightfall.
• Coupled with wireless alarm systems that can be activated remotely with a remote control, remote surveillance is an effective way to alert neighbors or even the police in case of intrusion by a stranger.
• To increase the protection of your home, it can then be accompanied by a system of facial recognition cameras. Here, the camera works with special software that captures the faces spotted in real time by the video and associates them with those previously recorded in a database. This solution makes it possible to authorize access to one's home to the desired persons and to trigger an alarm in case of unidentified presence.
• Opting for smart door locks is also one of the effective means of combating malicious intrusion. With this type of new-generation lock, you no longer need a key to open your front door or any door equipped with the lock model in question. Simply use your smartphone, a connected object or your fingerprint to unlock the accesses and enter the home. Forcing your lock will become virtually impossible unless you are prey to experienced hackers who can bypass the existing system.

Home automation for more comfort

In order to facilitate the use of all the connected objects installed in your home, the use of a home automation system can be judicious.

The box connects to your various equipment to guarantee you a certain comfort in their piloting and allow you to automate or program them remotely.

Beyond the aspects related to the safety of your home and your child, home automation is indeed a way to establish more comfort in your home.