We’ve helped clients create true smart homes by leveraging available technologies. While many of us may have used rudimentary tech for simple tasks like making our coffee in the morning, these tasks often failed if there was variability in your schedule. Now imagine having your coffee made fresh weather or not you got up at 6am or 9:15am, without having to adjust any settings? Imagine leaving your home and your thermostat adjusting to a wider tolerance, active lights shutting down to conserve power, your doors locking automatically, and your home monitoring all entry points without you even having to think about it. Water leak? Fire Alarm? Dog ran outside the fence? You’ll know within seconds. The technology to make all that happen is here, and we can help you get started designing and implementing the systems necessary to make the Smart Home you’ve always dreamed of.
We’ve done all the research and testing so that you don’t have to. With our experience in RF Networks, Antennas, and Engineering, we can help you select the optimal system to deploy. There are many options available from mesh networks like Z-Wave and Zigbee to traditional Wi-Fi and hardwired Power over Ethernet systems. But aside from selecting an architecture, there is a lot hinged on the provider platform you select and how that affects inter-connectivity between different device manufacturers and platforms that will meet the needs of your system.
The following are examples of some of the Smart Capabilties that we’ve deployed:
- Track who is home and where
- Adjust comfort settings based on presence and who is home
- Adjust thermometer settings
- Turn off all/some lights if no one is home
- Automatically turn off lights in areas not being used
- Automatically turn on dim lights if someone wakes up at night and turn off those lights once they go back to bed (follow me night lights)
- Set the house a little warmer/cooler in the morning as people wake up to make it easier to get out of bed, then lower the temperature after your morning routine
- Automatic security based on presence
- Lock the doors when everyone leaves
- Arm security when everyone leaves, including inside motion sensors
- Monitor windows for opening and closing
- Monitor for vibrations
- Monitor for broken glass
- Monitor for tempering with doors or locks
- Monitor for sophisticated break-ins like tilted sensors and sensor tampering
- Monitor cameras with facial recognition or for masked motion areas
- Trigger alarms and sirens and send notifications if there is any anomoly
- Disarm security if a known person returns home and unlocks a door or alternatively, with a keypad or tracking device.
- Automatically arm security at night
- Have the system learn your schedule
- Automatically track unauthorized access while you are home or asleep.
- Open doors, windows, vibration, etc. but ignore indoor motion
- Alert you if you forgot to close or secure any areas
- Alert you by flashing lights, changing light colors, or silent alarms if any intrusion is detected at night.
- Automatically perform actions if these things occur (sound alarms, text message a neighbor or contact, lock additional areas, turn on/off certain lights/devices, etc).
- Track valuables, pets, or people
- Alert you if a person, pet, car, trailer, or other object leaves your home
- Perform certain actions based on these occurrences
- Control your electronics
- Televisions, media centers, streaming boxes, whole house music systems, etc.
- Turn on lamps, fans, etc. based on varying conditions.
- Track every day activities
- Alert you if your washer is done washing
- Alert you if your dryer is done tumbling
- Remind you to feed a pet if no one has opened the food container by a certain time.
- Alert you of just about anything of interest to you.
- Control access to your home.
- Track household workers and their access
- Set one time use entry codes for smart locks
- Set entry codes that only work on specific dates and time ranges
- Remotely set one time use codes for someone needing access to your home while you are away
- Track household workers and their access
- Fully control all these things from your phone or computer while you are home or away.
- Get a picture of what your home’s status is no matter where you are.
The possibilities are endless. Contact us for a free initial consultation and we can discuss how we can be of assistance with making your Smart Home ideas a reality.