Manage Your Entire Home From a Phone Using This App

A new app aims to reassure absent homeowners by letting them manage and monitor household items, straight from their phone or tablet

Prizm is a 5-inch touchscreen controller that uses Z-Wave, a wireless system designed to help users communicate with home appliances. Combined with the Prizm Manager mobile app, they can turn light switches on and off, lock and unlock doors, raise and lower shades, and adjust the thermostat. Users are also notified when a door or window is opened, or when someone leaves or enters the house

The product's creators say they have developed a cloud platform that makes it possible for users to "stay connected to your home from anywhere in the world."