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LiveIN 8 - Home automation in home design
by Samantha on Thursday, 2nd December 2010 in Live InHome automation systems are gaining more and more ground in home design. They allow architects to design homes that are more comfortable, more accessible and easier for residents to manage, integrating the management, programming and control of the home’s systems – alarm, lighting, heating, cooling, energy generation, curtains, entertainment and many others – into a single touch-screen device.
In thinking of home automation, many imagine highly complex, expensive systems designed for homes of a certain importance in order to improve their comfort and functionality as well as obtain impressive stage effects. While this might have been true in the past, today home automation has evolved and become accessible to all, and can make a valuable contribution to saving energy in the home.
The system allows residents to monitor, and therefore regulate, the energy their home consumes. It is able to gather information regarding temperature, solar radiation, brightness and the presence of people within the rooms, and based on these factors, it regulates the home’s lighting, heating and cooling systems to optimize their energy use.
This system can improve quality of life even beyond the residential setting, especially in offices, by offering the same benefits in terms of comfort, easy management, energy savings, and therefore financial savings, on a larger scale. These systems pay for themselves over a relatively brief period of time, which can range from 3 months to 3 years depending on the characteristics of each setting.
Making smart choices about materials is the next step in guaranteeing well-being in the home or workplace. It is essential to use innovative, highly-hygienic products for internal floor and wall coverings, ventilated external walls or the building’s shell.
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