Home Automation Made Easy
The pace at which technology evolution happening is becoming a main challenge for realizing your Smart Home. For a home owner it is the user experience that matters most and for the architects and interiors designers it is the aesthetic appeal of the installed products.
From the past few years majority of medium to large category home projects in Kerala is showing positive trends towards Smart Home concepts. The solution adds a luxury touch for houses and dramatically improves the usability of the most accessed features for house. A basic question for many end-user is how do I proceed with my smart home installation and what is the features available and how much do I need to invest?
We see domain experts who is engaged from beginning stage for structural, interior, electrical etc. who plays a critical role in project outcome. The importance of these experts is proven over the years.
But what we see here today for Home Automation segment is that end-user settle for a solution without any technology consultation phase, and what he get is not at all designed for his needs. Going with a single product solution from one company may not help in all cases. Wide variety of proven home automation products from reputed vendors are available in Indian market today, hence the need to get awareness of the product-lines available is a very important process. Choosing the right products from this according to clients taste is something, which needs to be done with at most caution.
This is where the role of Home Automation Technology Consultant comes in, he conveys the technology ideas in an easy to understand way and makes customer aware of the features available. Considering that every project is unique there need to be a perfect blend of products chosen to merge with the house design. Even if you are not planning to implement your favorite features currently because of the budget limitations you can very well plan for the infrastructure readiness which will enable you to deploy this in future without any major civil works.
Some of the most interesting features of today's’ Smart Home are
- Integrated Intelligent Lighting /Shutter/Blinds Automation
- Any time anywhere in-house Audio Video distribution
- Entrance management
- Integrated Security System
- Integrated Home Theater Space
- Outdoor weatherproof Audio system
Lighting /Shutter/Blinds Automation
This is becoming more and more popular for medium to large sized houses, while with properly integrated system homeowner can easily control and schedule his home lights, shades etc from anywhere in the world. - Adjust lighting with one press
- Set the mood with special lighting
- Control lighting while you are away
In-house Audio Video distribution
“Watch what you want, when you want, where you want”
Place your media player, set-top boxes in central place and provide access to them from any room in your home. Similarly your favorite music can be easily listened from any room and that too different song in different rooms.
Can you imagine about invisible speakers, which can be mounted on wall and painted over? This is 100% true and there are products available to achieve this. This will help the architects to incorporate Audio systems wherever they want without compromising on design part.
Entrance management
This will range from automatic gate with vehicle identification, digital door locks and Video Door Phone for visitor communication. This products are individually available and when more such device comes in integration is the key, imagine getting Video door phone feed to your smart devices so that you no longer need to go near the indoor monitor to talk with the visitor. This concept is simple but very useful. Similar is the case with getting status of all digital locks while you are away and securing it from your phone.
Integrated Security System and CCTV
Security and CCTV is the most common feature and this is widely installed in new houses. A set of sensors for doors and indoor-outdoor areas will track the if there is any intrusion happening in your house, with the current standard design security sensors and CCTV system will behave as independent units, integration applied in this area will change the use case.
When a sensor is tripped, your security system can be enhanced to turn on your indoor lights and make your outdoor lights flash. You can add alerts to your office, neighbors, family, friends, and capture video of any movement in your home. After the sensor has been reset, if you choose, you can enable your system both locally and remotely.
Integrated Home Theater Space
Home theater gives you unmatched movie experience and people spend considerable amount of money for getting best AV systems, It is a fact that this high-end systems reside in a rack and not everybody at home is familiar to use this space. Adding Automation to Home theater space is something which eliminates the complexities in operating this systems and make the theater usable to anybody at house.
Outdoor weatherproof Audio system
Getting the same fidelity indoor-audio experience in your lawn area is something very challenging, there are specialized systems which can deliver the same when planned properly, this will enable owners to spend their favorite hours outside relaxing with a favorite track.
Finally what end-user expects out or dream about his Smart Home installation is the User-Experience and for realizing this all the installed systems need to work in a harmony. Remember a badly designed Smart Home will leave you with number of remote controls, which will further complicate life. If home automation is luxury for a small house, for medium to large house it becomes a necessity.
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