Home Automation Info

Home automation unlike manufacturing automation does not enable the homeowner to make more widgets faster, but instead relates to producing a comfortable, reliable, efficient, and safe environment in the home for the entire family. Therefore we like to define home automation as installed residential technology enabling the achievement of a desired lifestyle through coordinated control of the home environment.

A desired lifestyle may embody the concepts of:
• simplicity,
• convenience,
• entertainment,
• efficiency,
• connectivity,
• and safety for the whole family.

A coordinated system enables these lifestyle factors to be realized by controlling the lighting, climate, security, communication, and entertainment sub-systems in a manner that creates the desired environment within your home for a quiet evening for two or to host a party for 40 people. Convenience is addressed in the system by permitting these desired “scenes” to be invoked by time of day, or the garage door opening, or by the touch of a single button.

In practice the deployment of home automation usually is not addressed all at once unless one is building a new home. But even then, it’s important to install the infrastructure allowing automated sub-systems to be added incrementally over time enabling lower priority functions to be added to the coordinated system later in a seamless fashion.