How Does Automation Enhance Your Lifestyle?

The smart home revolution has arrived in full force. Much of the movement revolves around smart gadgets that promise automation, acting without you having to input information. There are products available for every corner of your Dallas, Texas home, from a refrigerator that lets you know if you've run out of beer to security cameras that activate when they sense any movement. While some gadgets are admittedly more practical than others, there’s no better whole-home solution than a smart home automation system.

How do these systems differ from devices you can buy off the shelf? They bring all your technology together and get it to work as one. Through a Savant Systems solution, you can have control of your lighting, security, entertainment, climate and more at the touch of a button. Sensors and schedules are the primary ways smart devices create automated responses. In this blog, we explain how both work best in a connected home.

Sensors

Sensors are the main way automation happens in smart devices. Your lights turn off when a room is unoccupied. A thermostat notices you’ve walked into the room and adjusts the temperature. What a smart home automation system adds to this dynamic is that all your technology reacts to a sensor's message rather than just one device.

Instead of just having a camera recording when a sensor is activated, you can have the lights in the room turn on as well to get the clearest images possible. When you return from work, it’s not just the climate that adjusts. As soon as you walk into your foyer, the room lights up and the television turns on to your favorite channel so you can settle in after a long day.

Schedules

Another popular way to get automated responses from smart devices is through the use of schedules. Even regular household electronics do this. You can set your alarm clock to start playing your favorite playlist at a certain time or have the TV turn on the news when it’s time to get up. Once again, the benefit of a smart home automation system is how it can encompass multiple technologies at once.

To get your entire home working together, you can use scheduled scenes. Scenes control multiple components simultaneously. A “Theater” scene dims the lights, closes the shades and pulls up your media library on your screen or television. An “Away” scene locks all the doors, turns off the lights and sets the alarm.

For a more automated, hands-off approach you can schedule certain scenes to happen at a given time each day. Create a “Good Night” scene that does the same as your “Away” scene at 11 p.m. every night. You can also have a “Wake Up" scene when it’s time to get up that opens the shades, begins playing music, and lights the way to the kitchen so you can get a cup of Joe.

If you want to get the most out of the many smart home features available today, you need the right automation system in place. Contact DB Media Solutions today to set up a consultation.