Is home automation right for me

Is home automation right for me?

Your not alone, the concept of home automation, multiroom or smart home solutions can be of one of EXPENSE, COMPLICATED or just simply BOYS TOYS.

People can often overlook the huge benefits financially and more importantly life style improvements from an array of product solutions available today that a few years back would have only appeared in sci-fi movies, today the industry is still at its beginnings but with every day there is an increase in innovative, life style changing solutions that are simply here to make your life easier and provide long term financial benefits.

“It all sounds very expensive?”

You may be very surprised at just how much can be achieved for any size budget, how far the system goes and the degree of control is only limited to your budget and imagination.

Home automation is an investment, it’s one of the simplest ways to increase your property value and future proof the property for many years, imagine buying a house now without central heating! in 5 years time it will be as odd as buying a house without home automation. As technology advances so does the ability to bring all that technology together into one simple to use and expandable system that not only has enormous financial benefits but think of the re-sell value of the property in the future.

“I’m not good with technology”

Home automation is all about ease of use, taking a number of gadgets and black box’s and simplifying the whole process, providing you with simple one button control over any AV device.

Lets take watching a movie on Sky for example, at present you need to switch the TV on, so get the first remote and switch the power on, then don’t forget you will need to switch the TV over to the right AV channel, then get your Sky remote and choose the channel you wish to watch, you find a great movie you want to watch, so lets turn it up, right so find the TV remote and turn the volume up to the desired level, oh now get up and turn the lights down to get the best possible view, oh and while your there close the curtains, now sit down and you are ready to go.

Or

Press “Watch Sky” on your touch panel remote, The TV switches on, the system then selects the correct AV channel for you, the lights dim to movie setting and the curtains close, the multi-remote then switches to Sky mode, giving you the exact same control as a normal Sky remote, and your ready!

This principle can be extended across the house, proving straight forward, simple control of any type of device, no more sky box’s and DVD’s everywhere, tons of remotes and a series of button presses, home automation simplifies the whole process providing simple one touch control

“I’ll just put Cat5 everywhere and worry about it later”

A professionally designed infrastructure could save you thousands in the long run, with the ever increase in emerging technology products on the market, how will you make sure you are ready to upgrade, how will you distribute high definition, how will 3DTV work in the future, how will low level energy lighting work in your home

All our systems are designed with the future in mind, imagine selling your property in 5 years time and having to explain that you can’t have high definition across the house.

Our system designs are provided FREE of charge with every system, the solution is designed around your requirements and our knowledge of future product launches and to really future proof your home.

“It’s just boy toys!”

All home automation solutions have one objective, to create a uniformed, user friendly all purpose solution to every part of the electrical and mechanical parts of a home.

Each solution is based around the whole family using and enjoying it’s benefits, the degree of control is decided by you, do you want wall panel control, do you want remote control or do you want to control your house from your iPhone, the way the systems are controlled and you interact with them are all part of the huge array of products available

“I’m a developer, do I really need more added costs”

As mentioned above, I am sure you would agree this question was asked prior to central heating solutions becoming the norm, in the US it was a proven fact that the building companies who adopted the Air conditioning solutions many years ago were really the only companies who had significant growth.

As a developer, home automation systems make you stand out from the competition, makes you become an up to the minute and innovative developer providing that additional unique selling point. And if you don’t feel it’s for you, the danger is your competition will.