Home automation: the new home trend
–> What is home automation?
Home automation, or domotics, is a system which integrates electrical devices in a house with each other. You can have wireless home control for your housework as well as your household activity in general. In other words, you can control what is happening in your house at any time, wherever you are and at a distance.
–> What are the main fields home automation can be used in?
> The programming of white goods
> Heating: instead of having your radiator on all day long, you can programme it five or ten minutes before coming home. You can thus benefit from energy savings with the same amount comfort.
> Security: alarms, motion sensors, intercoms, gates…
> Lights: extinguish all the lights, regulate the lumination level or change the ambient colour.
You can use home automation in any field you want.For example it can help elderly or disabled people and increase their quality of life, with simple things such as closing shutters. You just have to install electrical hinges on to your shutters and turn! Moreover, all the heat from radiators stays inside.
–> How does it work?
Easy! You control your home by selecting the part of your property you wish thanks to your iPad, your iPhone or any mobile that can log on to the internet.
–> Is it hard to install in my property?
No, not for most home automation material. You can do it by yourself just by following the instructions. However, you will probably have to contact your electricity supply board to adjust your connection system. Only for this kind of thing would you need a specialist or an electrical goods dealer.
–> Is it really useful?
> Imagine parents that are always on the move and that cannot put their children to bed. If they switch off the light at a certain hour, children would have no other choice but to go to bed five minutes before the lights switch off.
This is a very practical solution for disabled persons, for people who cannot afford to pay for the installation of solar panels on their roof (another way to save energy), and it is very easy to use.
–> Home automation: is it a developing market?
Today, this market looks somewhat circumspect, but according to specialists, the sales of future home partners will skyrocket in the next few years as people get more aware of their expenditure and need to budget. Furthermore, this sort of tool could constitute a brand new way of living for everyone, it may therefore end up influencing all our habits …