Showing posts with label home automation systems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home automation systems. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2014

How Automation Companies Are Creating Futuristic Homes – Benefits Of Smart Homes

It is a futuristic world we are living in today. Yes, devices and appliances in your smart home can today communicate with one another and with you digitally. You can control and monitor them with the touch of a button on your smartphone anytime anywhere! Automation companies are indeed creating smart futuristic homes involving use of PLC / SCADA, cables and wires, touch screen / plates / panels, LAN and networking linking all with lights, HVAC, electronic appliances, security systems, and various other devices electrically used at home. The key objective is facilitating comfort and convenience at the same time ensuring that you save energy significantly and live safe lives.

Top 5 benefits of smart homes:

1. Convenience: You cannot be at two places at the same time, but smart homes let you be there! Irrespective of where you are, you can access your home and accordingly control and manage electrical functioning of the various home systems. With the touch of a button on your smart phone, you can make everyday home activities happen automatically

2. Energy savings: Smart homes help manage energy consumption, leading to optimum energy usage. Certain smart devices like motion or occupancy sensors can be synced up to lights and HVAC so that they turn on and off automatically accordingly to occupancy. Use of LED lights and 5-star rated HVAC and electronic appliances further facilitate reduced consumption of energy
3. Automated security of home, assets and occupants: Installation of a comprehensive range of security products like CCTV cameras, DVRs, biometric door locks, glass break sensors, motion detectors, gas leak detectors, access control systems, and more ensure that you, your family members, and home assets are safe. Besides, you can monitor the security of your home from anywhere
4. Boon for the elderly and disabled residents: Easy accessibility and control of lights, door locks, HVAC, electronic appliances, and more, via a smart user interface such as smart phone, ipad or remote is a boon for the elderly and disabled residents.  Time can also be pre-set or scheduled for certain automatic tasks.  They, thus, need not be dependent on others. 
5. Increased resale value: Smart homes have high resale value compared to other conventional homes. It is worth the investment of turning your home into a smart home. You not only save big money on energy savings besides enjoying comfort, convenience, and security like never before but also enjoy high value appreciation of your property.

For more information on Smart and Luxury homes or to make your home as a smart one you can visit http://www.smartautomation.in/home-automation/

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Why Home Automation and Control Systems? - Understand the Need



The world is abuzz with the concept of ‘green’. To conserve the earth’s natural resources and save energy for our future generations, many a citizen across the world today is exploiting green technology concepts. The first step to going green is turning your home into a green home, making it energy efficient. Use of automation and control systems to control usage of energy saving lighting, HVAC, and security systems, and other electric appliances is what creation of a green home is all about.

Home automation and control systems are innovative, facilitating people reinvent the way they live and work. Motor controllers, PLC, wires and cables, etc. are integrated with lights, HVAC, fans, window blinds, security systems, audio, video, and other electronic devices and are all connected via a smart centralized control interface (remote, i-pad, smart phone). Just a touch of the button on your smart interface and you enjoy the convenience in controlling your world around you at your home and even while being away.

Why not change your home environment for a green purpose. It is time we understand the need of energy saving lighting, HVAC, and other electronic products at home so that we create a sustainable earth. Moreover, the more energy we save, the more money we save, month after month. Visualize, if every home is a green home, the earth would soon turn into a greener place to live in. Exploit home automation and control systems and use energy saving products to save maximum energy and enjoy convenience of living the luxury way.

“The idea of a home varies from person to person. A green home can be customized and tailor made according to individual requirements. Installation of automation and control systems is more cost effective at the building construction stage during electrical layout. But there are alternatives to installing these systems in old buildings without much refurbishment. Solutions available today are highly flexible,” says Mr. C P Singh, Founder and Chief Mentor of Smart Automation (a leading service provider of home automation solutions and energy saving products).

Greater ease and comfort are what home automation and control systems facilitate. Right from making a room brighter or dimmer depending on mood, monitoring and allowing/disallowing entrance of visitors to your home, controlling our home theatre, closing or opening window shades, lighting your washrooms / corridors / pavement areas / garage according to motion or occupancy to auto opening of gates as you enter home from outside, setting a pleasant room temperature or heat according to your need, controlling your electronic appliances, monitoring your kids at home from your office – possibilities of comfort and convenience with the touch of a button are many!

Smarten up your home, use energy saving products, and go green the smart way! 

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

What is Home Automation? - An Overview



All geared up to give supremacy to your imagination at home? It can happen only with automation. Let home automation systems allow you to control any task in and around your home your way with the touch of a button on your smart phone! Right from controlling window blinds of your room or your entire home to controlling lighting, zoned heating, security systems, and more, the convenience of a luxurious lifestyle goes endless.

So, what is automation? In short, it is the facilitation of automated activities. Futuristic technology marks the USP of automation systems directed towards improving living standards. Controlling your world at your home rests at your finger tips. Want to create the mood you want? Exploit mood lighting in shades that well synchronize with your disposition – red for passion, blue or white for calmness. Dim the lights according to the occasion, say, creating an environment equivalent to a candle-lit dinner! Don’t want to attend the stranger at the door? Use your video phone to leave a message. Want the lights of the corridor, garage, and other specific rooms of your home get switched on according to day-night settings? Use pre-set timings in the automation systems that control the lightings. Want the lighting and HVAC of every room of your home get switched on and off according to occupancy? Use motion sensors; you will save significantly on energy. Want to monitor your kids and helpers at home or the security of your home while you are away at work or for shopping? Just a touch of your smart phone lets you access the same. Thanks to the security systems installed.
·         Enjoy convenience and luxury of controlling your home systems from your smart phone
·         Avail round-the-clock security at home; your home is secured even while you are miles away
·         Save maximum energy, thus saving big on electricity bills, month after month
·         Get connected to your world at home remotely, using your smart phone
·        Live the green life comfortably, contributing to the creation of a greener earth.

There are countless possibilities with home automation systems. Automation providers recommend use of LED lights and maximum-star rated HVAC and electronic products for maximum energy savings. When we speak about security, it is an integration of myriad products, viz. CCTV cameras, video door phone, burglar alarms, gas leak sensors, glass break sensors, DVRs, and other surveillance systems that are connected to a centralized control. The differently abled, senior citizens, and kids gain a competitive advantage of living in a smart and safe environment.

Enjoy the wonders of home automation technology! Control your living space the way you want!