Getting Started with Home Automation
In this post I hope to help the person completely new to home automation, learn how to get started. I believe home automation is truly about to take off as an industry. More and more people are becoming more comfortable with additional devices, and electronics around the home. People can see how electronics can help our daily lives, and the next step is controlling the home itself. Lets take a look at the first steps, in simple terms.
1- The first thing you need to do is chose what you want to control/automate. Are you looking for very simple control of a few lights, or do you want the entire home running itself? Are you going to be happy with just lights, or do you want to control appliances, HVAC, audio and video, doors, motion sensors, garage doors, security cameras etc.
Use Home Automation to Be Green, and Save Green!
In this day and age of tough economic times and everyone concerned about “being green”, home automation can help you both be green and save green. There are many ways home automation can be used to save money and be
Use Home Automation to go green
green. Let’s go over some of them now.
The primary way to be green with home automation is to save energy. This can be accomplished in many ways, but the simplest is with the proper use of lighting. It’s very common for lights to be left on throughout the house when people are not using them. Integrating motion sensors into your home automation system can help alleviate this problem. Simple motion sensors can be used, along with control software to watch for motion and take note of when the last occurrence of motion was. After a set time, if there is no motion in the room, the lights will turn off. The logic involved in the system making this decision to turn off the lights can be as simple or complex as you would like it to be. Anything is possible when you integrate a computer and scripting into your integrated home automation system. Read more
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