Smart Home Solutions increase life quality!
“The Future is your partner” – this is the main principle we have in mind when we talk about Smart Home. With just one app installed on your mobile phone, you can manage everything that is happening in your house, having control over all the systems and equipment, from lightning to security systems.
A hard to believe scenario, inferred until now only by SF movies, is nowadays a natural reality, due to the progress of technology and communication systems.
But what are the main benefits of an intelligent house?
An intelligent house or a Smart Home, as it is usually referred to, integrates cutting-edge technologies in order to increase the comfort, to monitor and to reduce the operational and maintenance costs.
By investing in Smart Home equipment, you’ll have according expectations:
- Money and energy saving -> you’ll save not only money, but also energy and time, without having to give up on your own comfort or the quality of the services in your house.
- Increased house protection -> from the door locks to the monitor of surveillance and intrusion systems at any time, even while you’re enjoying a peaceful vacation on an exotic island.
- Caring for the environment – >with the Smart Home equipment from your house, you make sure that you’ll only consume only a much as you need, showing your care for the environment at the same time.
However, don’t be fooled by the equipment offers available in supermarkets or in local stores. Smart Home means a lot more than installing energy-saving light bulbs or using a timer plug. The small automations that you can do using these pieces of equipment only have the purpose of “bringing color” in your house, without allowing a significant comfort growth or a drastic cost reduction.
Smart Home Solutions increase life quality, but this involves, firstly the implementation of a concept which takes into consideration the size and destination of the areas, the building orientation in regard to the cardinal points, nature and types of existing heating / cooling systems, number of inhabitants and their daily schedule, time spent in every area of the house, existing communication linkages, energy sources, number and type of energy consumers in the house, way in which day areas are separated from night areas, etc.
Intelligent houses deserve this status due to proven evident benefits for the inhabitants, which can be translated into a high level of comfort and energy cost reduction. These benefits are generally obtained when Smart Home systems are installed by specialized companies, professional equipment is used and a certain project is complied with (often referred to as low currents project or house automation project).
No matter if we talk about a Smart Home for a family or an entire office building, the need for comfort and ease in exploiting systems is constantly growing. People easily adopt technology in their houses, have expectations and are willing to invest in the comfort of their houses more than ever, even if these things also involve a change of lifestyle.
But how can you tell the difference between professional and entry-level systems? First of all, by the place in which you can find them. Don’t expect to find professional Smart Home systems in supermarkets. Professional equipment and systems are provide by specialized companies, known as systems integrators, companies that are authorized distributors or integrators of some specialized software apps and equipment manufacturers. These companies have qualified staff, manufacturers’ support, experience with other similar works and the capacity to deliver a turnkey project.
Implementing a Smart Home solution is a project, a complex work, not a simple equipment delivery. It involves evaluating the location, consulting with the client and discovering his needs, creating a project, choosing the right equipment in order to satisfy the beneficiary’s requirements, wiring the equipment, installing and configuring it, implementing and providing maintenance. And let’s not forget about the training for the future users of the Smart Home system.
Some solutions come under the hobby or entry-level segment, such as Zigbee, BLE or Z-Wave communication equipment, which can be found almost everywhere online. They are affordable, created for solving a certain need, but they don’t help you integrate everything in one whole, scalable and future-proof system.
A communication protocol or a professional standard for Smart Home solutions is KNX. The solution our company offers, regarding this desideratum, is using controlling systems based on the international KNX standard. KNX equipment networks are very robust and offer excellent performance and security. They can be installed in any type of building, regardless of its purpose – from a single-family house to big residential complexes with tens and hundreds of inhabitants. Unlike other systems, KNX can also integrate outdoor equipment.
The main subsystems integrated by a Smart Homesolution
✔️The control of interior / exterior lighting– through which you can significantly increase comfort, through a proper design and adequate light depending on the type of building, as well as using automation functionality. The aesthetic, architectural lightning is often neglected by the building owners, who lose the chance of making the most of it. A Smart Home system can be programmed to manage different lightning scenarios, made for different purposes: presentation, functionality or cost savings.
✔️ The control of shading systems, which will help you create a specific atmosphere for each moment of the day, but will also significantly reduce air-conditioning costs. On sunny winter days, you can automatically raise the blinds in order to allow interior elements to warm up, this way becoming radiating surfaces of the collected heat. In the summer, you can avoid overheating areas by using the automatic actuation of blinds and windows shading.
✔️ Air-conditioning control, which aims not only to ensure a particular comfort for the inhabitants, but also a precise control over energetic consumption. Often, setting a temperature that is 2-3 degrees over or below the necessary comfort can lead to increasing costs by tens of percent! And, only by manually operating the air conditioning’s remote control or a radiator’s thermostatic end, we cannot talk about an efficient temperature control or energetic cost management.
✔️ Audio / Video controlby multimedia systems integrated in the house and distributed in different areas, interacting between them, that can be programmed to play your favorite songs on different audio sources. What can change your mood on a regular morning? Proper light, optimum temperature, your favourite ambient music and maybe the smell of freshly made coffee.
✔️ Control everything from a distance with your own phone, from adjusting the temperature in each room to monitoring the interior and exterior surveillance cameras. Moreover, when you are on vacation, you’ll be able to activate the “economy” mode and when you come back, you can reactivate the “comfort” mode. The control remote function gives you that “peace of mind” mood that you need when you are far from home, in order to enjoy relaxing moments.
✔️ Energy efficiency, which gives you a much better control over utility costs and which, at the same time, allows energetic efficiency, and you will contribute to protecting the environment, while enjoying a sustainable intelligent house.
✔️Smart metering, which will generate consumption curves graphs and will be able to optimize some efficiency processes.
✔️ The control of security systems through surveillance cameras, which serves the safety and security utility of the targeted perimeter, having a practical aspect for all the Smart building / home beneficiaries.
✔️ Visualizationzi and control systems are the most important components of a Smart building or house solution, because you can visualize all the buildings’ functions on a single screen, both locally on a touch display and remotely on your own phone or tablet.
✔️ Smart electric household appliances can also be integrated in the automation system, in order to increase your home comfort and to completely simplify your work. You will be able to precisely control every appliance connected to the system, either from your house’s comfort or from a distance, with a smart device (phone or tablet).
SmartHome solutions are also available in hotels
Furthermore, controlling and automation Smart Home solutions are also available in hotels, providing a particular comfort not only to the guests, but also to hotel managers by: solar control, because the natural light source is the most important element of an environment, efficient lightning based on LED technology, doors access control, sustainable comfort due to a thermostat which indicated temperature, rooms’ humidity and air quality, and lastly but not least, multimedia communications through the hotel’s audio system, integrated on TV, YouTube, Spotify and many more apps.
If you want to find out how Smart Home solutions increase life quality, we invite you to read more aboutour projectsfor various clients.
