FAQ

As with most purchases that affect your lifestyle, you want to clearly define how you will benefit from the purchase. With a home automation system, your primary consideration is deciding what part of your life you want to enhance and simplify.

Home automation systems are designed to provide convenience and efficiency to all aspects of your home including your home theatre, multi-room music, lighting, heating and cooling, and security systems. Also think about your priorities in terms of effortless convenience, entertainment, comfort & peace of mind.

Being modular is the beauty of home automation. To avail, the benefits of automation technology, you don't have to fully automate your home. You can start with taking small steps, for example, you can opt for door phones in the beginning.

Secondly, you can go for automated home theatre, where to can control lights, audio-video with the single remote. Also, with that same remote you can operate the lights in your other rooms as well.

Due to wireless & standard-based wired technology, home automation can be installed easily without doing any alterations in current homes. For example, to automate lights in your home doesn't require a huge amount of rewiring, all you have to do is to retrofit the smart lighting system with the house lights & replace the wall switches with highly-advanced multipurpose keypads.

The fact is that automation systems are configured & installed only after the house is complete, do to which new homes under construction do not require any additional special wiring. Also, electricians can do the wiring as they do for any regular home.

To use & understand home automation to its full extent, one should not suppose to be a computer scientist. The control mechanisms are all in the form of intuitive and easy-to-use remotes, keypads, touchscreens & TV screen menus. There are also navigation applications for Web browsers, iPhones and iPods.

As we can control the temperature & lighting control devices, hence we can reduce the consumption of energy and also can save money by home automation. No matter how much efforts we make to save energy, we somehow always forget to turn off the unwanted lights. But with home automation technology we can virtually eliminate these kinds of energy wastage.

A home outfitted with devices which will be controlled over an online association on one’s desktop, tablet, or smartphone is known as smart home. These connected devices are often appliances, lights, security systems, cameras, audio and video systems, televisions, thermostats, and even sprinklers.

Generally speaking, if your home has devices that hook up with one another and to a network, it’s a sensible home. The quality of sensible systems might disagree somewhat from home to home, however, the essential foundations are similar.

Home automation & home control are the things that the smart homes do. Operating the locks, light and thermostats via a single device in your home is term as home control. Whereas, the process of programming the above-mentioned devices to operate them automatically to experience a hassle-free life is known as home automation.

Technically speaking, no one needs a Smart Home any more than anyone needs a Casper mattress. But that itch you developed while everyone in your inner circle is talking about it, that itch is what you want not a need. If you really are true to yourself and admit this then you must go for smart home.

If you set a budget prior to entering home automation, then definitely smart homes are affordable. As a fact, the simpler version of home automation will cost less as compared to the complex setups.

Not all smart homes are the same. Some focus on addressing the basics only, while other includes nearly every electronic devices. If you want to spend less go for smaller gadgets, but if you have a relatively high budget you can opt the bigger ones.

No, it is not necessary to make your whole house automated. It totally depends on what type of devices are you selecting whether you are going for a full-scale home automation network or simply stand alone advanced gadgets. Some people prefer only semi-automated homes.

In its simplest form, a manually operated On/Off switch. This very basic system can be extended progressively to provide comprehensive control of a single room or a whole building.

The system can be controlled by a combination of wall-mounting pushbutton controllers, presence detectors, daylight sensors and time-clocks.

A basic light switch provides either zero or 100% of available light, with no variation in between. Compare this with natural lighting which changes its colour, diffusion and brightness throughout all of every day. Introducing this concept of mood lighting can dramatically enhance the appearance of an area while reducing energy bills and increasing lamp life.

Yes. In residential environments, a lighting control system will both save energy and increase lamp life.

Where daylighting and presence detection are utilised as part of a complete system in commercial projects, savings of up to 40% on an otherwise manually controlled system are achievable.

Yes, and within a realistic period, dependent upon the type of system. Where daylighting and presence detection is utilised as part of a complete system in commercial projects, savings of up to 40% are achievable.

Almost all dimming systems require data wiring, so with most dimming systems this is not possible, due to disruption and costs. However, with wireless technology, data wiring is not necessary. The dimming units are so compact that they can, in most cases, be installed into the ceiling void directly above the luminaire.

A wireless security system contains a series of wireless sensors and a control panel. Whenever the sensors trigger the alarm sounds, the wireless security system sents a "distress" signal to the monitoring system. After which as a result monitoring system notifies the local authorities, so that necessary steps can be taken in time.

Great question! For the most part, home automation and smart home tech can interact with currently installed security systems; however, if there is a discrepancy, you may need to install a home automation/smart home system that can work with your security system to effectively use both. You may need to update your security system, too.

Yes. You will be able to access our smart home remotely through your phone, computer, or tablet. This means you can lock the doors, change the home climate, or check in on the kids with cameras from anywhere with an internet connection.

Home security system's alarm sounds always tells you about something. It can be an indication that an intruder entered your home or it could be a flood, fire etc. Or you could have simply forgotten to disarm the system. But whether it's a false alarm or an emergency, a triggered alarm system can be unpleasant & stressful. Understanding how does your system works and what happens when an alarm is triggered can help you to stay calm and take the necessary actions.

To deter crime in your home is the most essential reason to invest in security features or home automation security solutions. According to one report of the study on residential security houses without security solutions are 3.5 times more likely to be subject to a burglary.