Automation for Intelligent Homes

Posted by ilifesolutions on July 12th, 2013

The main idea behind the construction of intelligent homes is to create a form of automation forsystems and devices that arefound in a typical house. These range from lighting, home cinemaand heating systems to CCTVs, curtains and blinds. This technology employs the use of touch screens and user friendly software to impact four key factors in a house; energy efficiency, intelligent lighting control systems, telecommunication systems and work place automation.Therearetwo types of home automation techniques that are used in the construction of smart homes. They include the plug in system whereby modular systems are simply plugged into walls and communicate through integrated power or radio lines. The secondtechnique involves the use of the hardwired system whereby the system solution is planned and installed in the walls of a house during the initial construction process of the house.

Lighting has proven to be the most popular application of home automation. This technologyallows us to switch on and off or dim lights using a remote control, touch panels, PDA or phone apps from any geographical position on the earth`s surface.Natural lighting is also an important factor that is considered during an architectural lighting design. It mainly banks on the motorization of curtains, blinds and shades.These can be controlled using a remote control or can simply be programmed to close and open at automatically predetermined period forexample depending on the position of the sun in the sky or using the daylight factor. The other importantaspect of the smart home control is the security system. Thisallows you to monitor your house through the internet at any time of the day. Motionsensors can also send emails and textmessages to one`s phone in the event thatthey detect glass breakage or any form of movement while one is away from their home. These sensors are very critical as they detect additionalhazards like gas leakage and fire break outs.Inaddition to this, these sensors also help in circuitry in the house, in that they can disconnect power in the event of a short circuit.

Smarthomes are generally green homes since most of them incorporate innovations such as the use of solar panels. This makes them very environmentally friendly as they help to preserve and reduce the consumption of natural andfossilfuels that are the number one world environmental pollutants. However, there are also a few demerits that came about with smart home control. The firsts disadvantage is the very heavy cost of installation, repair and maintenance of the control systems. This is inaddition to thetechnologylearning curve that one has to go through reading manuals so as to get maximum comprehension of the rapidly changing control innovations.Lastly, there is also the criminal hacking aspect that is associated with surveillance videos. This makes the signals that aretransmitted by the video surveillance systems to be received by the criminals themselves while keeping you completely out of the picture and unaware of the insecurity status in your house.

About The Author:

This article is written by Lynn Garland, who is associated with Ilife Solutions. Ilife Solutions have gained reputation in the demanding world of corporate installations. They are specialists in Bespoke Home Cinema Installations & Smart Home Technology.