1.  Save energy and make your home more cost-effective. A home automation
system can program your lights, thermostat, and shades to optimize energy use
and needs. There is no reason to have the lights on in a room you aren’t in. Or to
have the heat or air conditioning running full blast when you are away. Optimizing
your energy use is good for the environment and good for your wallet, too.
2. Increase the value of your home. Adding home automation will add 20% or more
equity to your home. The benefits to the value and equity of your home might also
make it possible for you to get a loan for your home improvement project.
3. Keep yourself and your home safe from break-ins. A sophisticated security
system can remember your weekly lighting habits and mimic them while you are
on vacation to fool potential burglars. Surveillance systems let you keep an eye on
children playing, as well as screen visitors at your home entry-ways.
4. Respond faster in an emergency. A home automation system can better detect catastrophes (floods, break-ins, fires, carbon monoxide) and automatically contact a homeowner and emergency personnel.
5. Entertain and impress. Having company? Watching a movie? With a touch of a
button, you can activate presets for your house. Put on some smooth jazz, mute
your telephone, dim the lights and draw the blinds automatically. Enjoy smart
surround sound for your TV and a full home audio system so you can hear music
from your digital music collection, a CD, or the radio in any room.
6. Constantly maintain a comfortable environment. Heating and cooling systems
can adjust to changing outdoor temperatures as well as humidity and sunlight
levels. Lights can dim or brighten as the sun sets or moves beyond a cloud.
Darkened hallways can be illuminated as a sleepy guest wanders towards the
bathroom in the middle of the night. |
