Home automation is a new type of civil electrical installations which has been discussed for years.
Useless hide it, an electric system automation costs more than a normal electrical system.
If your concept of electrical system includes one or more of the following points:
• traditional electrical systems satisfied you always
• you don't have ever wanted a more intelligent control of your electrical appliances
• you want to spend as little as possible
then the home automation is not for you. The old type of system is just fine for your needs, and you can search the electrical installer with the lower budget.
There are really many reasons to choose to have a home automation system:
- Total integration between all the home plants
- A dialogue between the washing machine, electric oven, the electric water heater and all guzzling utilities, that can to decide on their own to not to light up simultaneously, or notify with a beep if we turned too many things together, before triggering counter breaker. See in real time our consumption, not only the electric ones but also water and gas.
Store all consumption data of the individual devices, and review even after months or years, to make comparisons.
Having real-time estimate of the amount of bills, day by day: set limits consumption.
Set dialogue between the boiler, air conditioners and ventilation systems, to avoid heat energy waste. Automatically suspend the heating of each room when we open the window to air it.
Program the boiler and air conditioners switching on according to the internal temperature or the outside temperature, or based on a daily or weekly program
Automatically control the opening and closing of blinds or shutters, binding it insolation, wind or time of day.
- A dialogue between the washing machine, electric oven, the electric water heater and all guzzling utilities, that can to decide on their own to not to light up simultaneously, or notify with a beep if we turned too many things together, before triggering counter breaker. See in real time our consumption, not only the electric ones but also water and gas.
- Enhanced burglar alarm
- Receive a text message on your cell phone or a call when there is alarm for an intrusion.
- See on your smartphone what happens at home using the internal cameras.
- Receiving in your smartphone technical alarms, such as flooding, lack of power supply, the malfunction of the heating system.
- Advanced electric appliances control
- Get on your mobile notification of breakers intervention, with a chance to try to reset it wherever you are.
- Check by phone if you forgot the lights on, with the ability to turn them on or turn them off, wherever you are.
- Activate or deactivate the automatic programs that ensure to turn on and off a few lights randomly, to simulate the presence of people at home. Check the heating system and air conditioners even when you are away from home. See temperatures and decide whether to turn on or turn off the system, and adjust the temperature setting.
- Scenarios
- Scenarios are a convenient opportunity offered by home automation systems. Recalling a scene preset, you can change the environment of the house to fit different needs. With only one button you can set the brightness and color of the lamps, the position of blinds and shutters, ambient temperature, type of music, and more generally all devices controllable by the system.
- Traditional and improved command systems
- You can choose how to control the home automation system. Through simple buttons, to which we are accustomed, or through touch screens of different sizes, through a personal computer or with a tablet or smartphone, and these control devices can co-exist simultaneously in the same system.
- House's value increasing
- An automated home has a higher market value: the home automation system allows immediate economic return in terms of energy saving, but also an indirect economic return, by improving the building's energy and comfort requirements, welfare and safety.
- Espandability
- A home automation system can be easily expanded or modified. In case of new needs, you can easily add components, because each additionally part can communicate with the other through a simple twisted wire. Also, many functions can be added or changed simply by changing the settings and software, without purchasing new components.