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‘You get a notification at three in the morning telling you there’s an unfamiliar face outside’

‘For me, the best thing about smart home tech is the interactiveness of it,’ Simon says. ‘We’ve used it in various forms for a long time – we bought a Nest thermostat when it first came out in 2012 and we’ve installed it in the three houses we’ve lived in since then.

‘It’s good to be able to see your house all on one screen rather than having to figure out dials and things like that for meter readings. It is especially useful for me because I’m away a

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