What is Home Automation? Simply, it is a single system to achieve three separate goals, which each customer prioritizes according to their needs:

• safety,
• convenience, and
• energy savings.

Safety

Everything you use to make your home safer can be tied into a single system:

• smoke alarms,
• security alarms,
• motion detectors, and
• even security cameras

Imagine: your family is asleep when a fire breaks out. The system recognizes this safety threat and takes appropriate action. In addition to the smoke alarms going off...

1. the furnace shuts off to avoid spreading the fire,
2. all of the lights in the house come on to allow you to see your way to the exits, and
3. the porch light flashes so first-responding emergency personnel can immediately identify your house.

Convenience

Control all of your lighting, music, and temperature from anywhere in your house...or anywhere in the world. View Snaplink demo.

Attractive six and eight button controllers manage lighting scenes for an entire room and can take the place of a dozen or more light switches. Slightly larger touchpads can control all the lighting in and around your entire house. Do you want to walk around your house every night before bed to make sure all the lights are off, or simply press Goodnight on your kitchen touchscreen and know that all the lights are off? This is the kind of convenience that home automation can offer.

The simplicity of the lighting control is also available through the same system for your music, heating, air conditioning, or anything at all that you plug into the wall.

Energy Savings

Any programmable thermostat can be set to maintain the temperature of your home based on a schedule, but what if you deviate from that schedule? Are you likely to remember to reprogram all of the thermostats as you are running out the door to catch a flight? With one touch of a button you can put your entire home in vacation mode. While you are away, your hot tub temperature stays lower, your electric hot water tank maintains a lower temperature, the temperature in your home stays warmer or cooler than normal, depending on the season, and lights can be set to come on for a limited time rather than stay on for the duration of your vacation. (As an added bonus, lights, music, and even the television can appear to come on randomly and turn off after a reasonable time to give the illusion that you are home.)

Even in day-to-day life, BC Hydro recognizes that one of the most effective ways to reduce power consumption is to use Automatic Lighting Controls.

Limited Only By Imagination

You probably already have ideas about how to make this power and convenience work for you. Your imagination is the only limit, so feel free to contact us with any questions.