Helpful Resources
A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Home Tech Features
Consider your budget and priorities when installing your smart home. You want to create an automated home environment that helps you save time, money, and energy through the use of smart speakers, appliances, and other devices.
Smart Devices: How Safe Are They?
Smart devices are safe and can improve security and efficiency in your home if you account for vulnerabilities by securing your network, using strong passwords, and relying on reputable suppliers and apps.
Top 8 Safety Essentials Your Home Needs
Keep your home and your family prepared for anything, from natural disasters to home break-ins, with these eight safety essentials that every home needs.
Electrical Safety Tips
http://www.esfi.org
Energy Conservation
http://www.energystar.gov/
State and Local Tax Incentive Programs for Energy Efficient Appliances
http://www.dsireusa.org/
Where to Recycle Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
https://www.epa.gov/mercury/recycling-and-disposal-cfls-and-other-bulbs-contain-mercury
http://www.earth911.org
U.S Department of Energy
http://www.energy.gov/yourhome.htm
Electrical Science Fair Projects
http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/category29.html
Articles on Electricity
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/ele-edu.html
Green Living Ideas
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Homes.aspx
Light Studies
Improving Street Lighting to Reduce Crime in Residential Areas
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/RIC/Publications/e1208-StreetLighting.pdf
How Light Affects Your Mood
http://www.scienceofpeople.com/2013/12/color-psychology-101/
Industrial Lighting, Productivity, Health and Well Being
http://www.usa.lighting.philips.com/pwc_li/main/shared/assets/downloads/pdf/industrial_lighting_and_productivity_1_.pdf
Lighting Quality and Office Work: A Field Simulation Study
http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/researchAreas/pdf/LRAlbanyStudyReport.pdf
In today’s economy, dressing room lighting can spell retail life or death
https://news.ufl.edu/archive/2009/03/in-todays-economy-dressing-room-lighting-can-spell-retail-life-or-deat.html