Aug 07, 2015
Oh! Did I locked the main door before leaving home? Kids! Switch off the lights before leaving your room. These small concerns at times create big loses to you, mentally and financially. Now, make sure your doors are locked before you hit the bed at night,Control the room temperature before you arrive at your home after a hectic day at work, all with home automation system. This system can help you control most of your home via your smartphone or PC – thus you can change your home into a smarthome. Such type of homes can be customized with your changing needs, which can work with your lifestyle and budget. Home automation has helped setting up smarthomes by bringing technology and convenience together, syncing every device through a wireless network, thus providing safety, security, savings and an overall smarter home.
The 3 S of Home Automation
Home automation system has a lot to offer – wireless home security, multizone HVAC system, home theater, programmable thermostat, outdoor speakers and audio controls, lighting control system, security cameras, energy management system, central vacuum system, wireless home audio system, etc.
Catering all the above needs,let us have a detailed look on the three ‘S’ of home automation – safety, security and savings.
1. Safety
Worried if the coffee pot is left on? Want to doublecheck if you have put your gas off? Have you put the iron off? Carelessness can lead to hazardous accidents at home. With home automation system, your smartphone or tablet or just a remote control can be connected to your lights and small appliances of your home for family-added safety, giving you the feeling of someone taking care of your home while you are away or busy.
- Safety Through Appliances
Small appliances across your home can be connected to your smartphone through a wireless network. This helps you keep a check on the missed or incomplete task that can be dangerous if not taken care of. You can always check if your daughter has turned off the curling iron after using, orif your partner has put the oven off after making the breakfast. You can put the water heater off from a remote location if you are not sure that you have put it off after you have taken your shower.
- Safety Through Lighting Control
Your family can enjoy added level of safety through your ability to control lighting at your home. It is not always related to saving electricity by putting them off when no one is at home, but you can also keep them put on automatically to create a simulation that you are at home even if you are away, which increases the safety. You can control lights from any remote location with the help of home automation system.
- Safety Through Multiway Switching
Home automation helps you add multiway switching to existing electric lighting circuits, thus making it simple to put switches on and off. Home automation products automate LED, CFL and conventional lighting. Home automation products include dimmers, remote controls, switches and plug-in modules for your safety. All these can have multiway switching for added safety.
- Safety Through Thermostat Control
On the way back home, you can set the room temperature according to your preference before you enter. Accurate temperature control provides better comfort for you and fewer temperature swings, which is safer and healthier for your body. Your children may try to adjust thermostats which can be extreme hot or cold for them – in such cases, you can also create minimum or maximum lockouts for setting temperature.
2. Security
Many homes are now linked to technologies like phone and tablet. Home automation offers video surveillance, wireless door locks, access control and back-up communication devices for a secure house, which is just a click away. Home automation keeps your house under surveillance all day and night, so you can take action at a moment’s notice. Your smarthome can provide security even in low-light conditions.
- Security Through Automated Door Locks
One of the greatest benefits of your home automation system is automated door locks. Realizing that you forgot to lock your door after leaving for your office sounds familiar. Have you driven back home just to check if the doors were locked? Now you do not need to panic, as you can lock your doors with the tap of your finger. You can also leave home early before your children leave for their school. If your children forget to lock the door in hurry to catch their bus, you can always control the situation by locking the door from your office or anywhere. Home automation system also provides or central locking of all perimeter doors and windows. You can also restrict the access of guests or children to a private. With just a swipe of your key tag or card, you can complete several functions. You can arm or disarm security and also can activate a door strike in order to open any door.
- Secure your Home with Security Cameras
You can have security cameras across your home, which need only wireless network and power. If your entire family engages in work and your home remains locked, then installing security camera is the best option to go for. Camera captures the entire event happening when your home is locked. Moreover, you can also see the recordings as per the days set. Security cameras can also be installed in garage and front gate.
- Secure your Home with Intercom System
Integration of an intercom system allows you to communicate via a microphone and loud speaker between multiple rooms, thus increasing the security two-fold. Intercom helps the home owner to know the happenings in other rooms. Intercom system has taken the safety measures to a new level.
- Secures your Home From any Corner of the World
If you are going out for a vacation and want to leave the key to your neighbor to do some routinely household chores on your behalf, such as taking care of dog, feeding the plant, etc., then you can happily do that. You can schedule a time for the person to enter your home through your smartphone or PC and can also have a look though security cameras installed across your house about what is going on inside. You do not have to worry for your neighbor losing your door key or unauthorized accessing your belongings. You can make sure of the chores are completed so that no bad surprises wait for you when you are back home.
3. Savings
Home automation system not only provides you safety and security, by controlling and automating devices at your home, but also is lighter on your pocket inlong run thus provides an overall convenience
- Reduces Your Monthly Utility Bill
As mentioned previously, home automation system saves money. You do not have to spend money for household appliances left on in your or your family’s absence.These security options are so advanced that they will help you in saving enough money in utility expense. If you forget switching the lights or fans or air condition off when you are in hurry to leave the house, it will automatically be put off when it will sense that no one is there in the house – this saves a lot of electricity.
- Saves Energy and Contributes to Economy
The main aim of using these hi-tech products is to save energy and money. Saving is something that every person wants to do in every other way. If you want to contribute towards the environment safety and economy, then check out any of the latest home automation products.
- Uses Maximum Natural Energy
You can set the time of your drapes to close mid-day and help keep the house cool. Thus you do not have to put the AC in a cooler level when you enter your house. The windows and shades adjust themselves to pull in maximum natural light from outside, thus saving the energy of lighting inside the room. Home automation products allow you to use maximum solar energy and help save your electric bill. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems include air heating and natural cooling and temperature and humidity control.
Are There Any Other Add-Ons?
Well, definitely the advantages mentioned above, which can be enjoyed by a home automation system, are enough, but still they are not all. Home automation system also comes with an entertainment package. You can actually change your hall to a party place by adjusting the lights of the room, music, and room temperature according to you and your guests’ preference.You can set a home theater with the help of a home automation system and control the lights of the room or the volume of the TV just with a touch on your phone.
Home automation has taken the home safety into a new level. With many products available in the market, you can choose that suits your need and to safeguard your house when you are or not at home. Your home automation system will do everything it can, to make your life more comfortable and peaceful.
