Home Automation

A home automation controller is used to integrate all of your home’s subsystems and provides a single point of control for all of them. An integrated system can be programmed to automate routine tasks such as turning your lights on at sunset, watering your lawn when it is not raining, and raising or lowering your window coverings to adjust the amount of sunlight in your home. In addition to automating routine tasks, an automation controller provides the ability to create advanced events that control numerous aspects of your home at the touch of a single button. An automation controller also provides remote access to your home’s subsystems so you can monitor your home over the Internet or by calling the system directly from your cell phone. The possibilities are limitless when all of your home’s subsystems are integrated together.

• Control any of your home’s subsystems from a variety of user interfaces including touch panels, keypads, remotes, TVs, PDAs, PCs, the Internet, phone, voice commands, and email

• Automate routine tasks to make your life more convenient and efficient

• Trigger an action in your control system based on the time of day, the weather conditions outside, the amount of light in a room, the temperature of a room, changes in the status of a security system, or any form of user input

• Reduce energy costs and make your home more environmentally friendly

• Automatically turn off your lights and change the temperature of your home when you leave

• Reduce energy consumption by using advanced lighting scenes to dim lights

• Adjust indoor temperatures based on weather conditions outside

• Avoid wasting water by automatically altering your lawn’s irrigation schedule based on current weather conditions or forecasts

• Gain peace of mind by remotely monitoring and managing your home while you are at work or away on vacation

• Monitor a vacation home over the Internet during the off seasons

• Receive automated email or phone notifications of events in your home while you are away

• Receive an email at work when your child enters her code into the security system notifying you that she has returned or left home

• Receive a phone call from your home automation system alerting you that water has been detected in the basement before the house becomes flooded

• Create events in your system to have the news, weather, or your email downloaded from the Internet in the morning and read to you over the whole house audio system while you get ready for work