Are you building a luxury new home? Will it be a smart home?
Building a new home is such an exciting time! As we all know, it can also be a daunting experience if you forget or don’t include things into your plans before building commences. Just like we all now have smartphones that have given us access to a whole new world and choices of apps, having a smart home is very similar. Making sure your new home is “smart” is just as important to us now as having a smartphone!
Can you imagine going back to a 2G phone? Ugghhh Horrific! No thanks!
So what does having a smart home mean?
Having a smart home means you have built your new home with provisions to control many features we now expect our home to do like lighting, sound, security control etc. To ensure your new home is provisioned, you need to plan Home Automation wiring before the building commences. This will give you access to a whole new world and choices of Home Automation products & services and save you time and $$$ if you try and add a SMART HOME product to a NON-SMART home.
Remember when things are hardwired, they are VERY reliable. When they are wireless, they heavily depend on your WiFi system – let’s not go there!
What are home automation products and services?
Lighting Control
Lighting Control is the must-have Smart Home product, and you can create the perfect Ambiance for a fun party or set the mood for a romantic night in at a touch of a button. You can also save energy by automating a home lighting schedule again at a touch of a single button, and it’s just a great home feature!
Home Blinds
Home Blind automation is a simple way to open/close one or all blinds at the touch of 1 button across the whole house. Be energy-smart and schedule when to open or close them, and it’s also great for simulating you are at home if you are away on holiday!
Home Audio
Home audio is the supreme creation and design of your home sound entertainment!
From hidden speakers, outdoor ground land-scape speakers to waterproof speakers that can be installed and built into your home to create multiroom home theatre sound, perfect for entertaining with your friends! It’s also a great way to relax in the bath whilst blocking out the kid’s music in the house; sorry, kids!
Home audio truly enables you to produce your own tailored audio experience in every room you choose. It’s an absolute must-have feature in my books.
Home Heating & Cooling
Home Heating and cooling is an intuitive and automatized way to control your home climate. Smart home climate control can reduce heating & cooling output by programming and scheduling your climate when working. You can remotely control your home climate or reduce your utility bills via sensory controls.
Home Security
Smart Home security solution offers you control to remotely arm and disarm the system from your phone anytime, from anywhere in the world! With the assistance of intrusion alarm notifications, you can protect your home by turning on lights and appliances or sounds in different rooms to make it look like someone is home at a touch of a button.
CCTV means you can view what is happening at your home in real-time right from your phone and act on it immediately.
Home Intercom systems are now smarter than ever, and quite frankly, every smart home absolutely needs one! It will not just improve the way you communicate so that you can all stop yelling across the house but will also add another layer of security for your home and family.
With the new technology intercoms, you can easily see who is at your door from your control monitor, talk to them, send them away, or let them in. You can also record all movement and go back to video recordings if needed. You may also choose music & intercom systems that come with a Bluetooth receiver to play your music through your house.
Smart Locks is the new keyless option and trend in Smart Home technology today. Smart locks are designed to receive instructions from an authorised device so that you can open or close remotely and keylessly (I know that’s not a word but stay with me, all from your phone.
It can also monitor and send alerts via email or SMS.
If you have a smart doorbell, an internet-connected doorbell with a screen, you can see who and when they are at your door even when you are not home. Who doesn’t want that?!
To take things another notch higher, you can also get fingerprint access control, also known as biometric access control. This will only give access to profiles you have created and authorised for access, and as is with all smart security products, you can get reports on all activity. Now that’s smart! For more information, on our home security services, click here.
Home Theatres
Oh, but where do I start with Home Theatres?
A 65-inch screen now is just a norm, and we all know that when we sit down to watch a great movie, we want a great experience because life is all about experiences. For the best in-home smart home, you can’t go past an inbuilt home theatre system for your family and friends, and it’s the most popular home entertainment gift for all.
Create and design a soundproof room, complete cinema-quality sound and picture, starlight ceilings, self-reclining chairs!
So go and get the popcorn ready and enjoy a night in your home theatre!
Home Network & WiFi
Home Network & WiFi allows you to group all your devices into your home network system like computers, printers, TVs, mobiles and even game systems so that they can connect to the internet and each other.
Home Network & WiFi means you can enjoy hardwired, high-speed internet throughout your entire home easily and seamlessly.
Who can even do without this now – not me!
Home Appliance Control
Imagine coming out of the shower on a cold day, but waiting for you is a heated towel to wrap yourself in – that’s what I call LOVE!
Home appliance Control is just that, controlling/automating any of your home appliances like;
- Hot Towel Racks
- Coffee Machines
- Washing Machines
- Air Diffusers
- Air Purifiers
Feel the love or take control – either way, I’ll have them both!
So, as you can see, having a smart home is like having access to the app store where you can pick and choose what apps you want or need, and as we know, new apps are launching every day!! When you build a smart home, it will give you access to many new home products, it’s a fast-growing market, and new smart home products will become available every year! Don’t miss out!
If you want to know more, feel free to contact us and help us build and design your new luxury home automation.
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