more smart home products will become available. Many of these products will include features that focus on home security and quality of life. If you're interested in smart technologies for your home, the key will be to research your options and understand how the system works with the other devices within your home. Brian Sloboda is a program manager specializing in energy efficiency for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the national trade association representing more than 900 local electric cooperatives. From growing suburbs to remote farming communities, electric co-ops serve as engines of economic development for 42 million Americans across 56 percent of the nation's landscape. Many LEDs, like the Philips Hue line, can be controlled from a smartphone app, making the LED more of a consumer electronic than a light bulb. Consumers have many options for smart lighting systems. Shown here is the Philips Hue White Ambiance Starter Kit. co-opliving.com March-April 2019 | Cooperative Living | 25http://www.co-opliving.com