There’s a real art that goes into designing and installing an automation system into a home. Sure, all those electrical circuits and processing power are important to the overall functionality of the technology—it’s what enables a system to keep the lights, thermostats, A/V equipment, and more running like a well-oiled machine. But there’s also something beautiful about bringing order to your house. When things work well, operate flawlessly, and are well integrated, your house exudes a certain elegance that makes everything about it look better. The architecture, the furnishing, the artwork, even the technologies themselves are able to reveal their true beauty. Here’s how:
1. Curb Appeal: You’ve spent a lot of time and money on the landscaping. Show it off by automating the exterior lights. It helps to hire a lighting professional to show you how to position and angle the fixtures to accentuate the limbs of trees, the stonework, shrubs, and flowers, but once the lights are installed, an automation system can ensure that they turn on every day promptly at dusk. Sure, a regular old timer can do this, but an automation system can also turn the lights on and off in a predetermined sequence, illuminate different areas of the yard depending on the time of year, and brighten and dim to certain intensity levels for special occasions (soft to welcome guest to a dinner party; bright for a festive birthday party, for example).
2. Artistic Rendering: If you own even a few pieces of art, you can use an automation system to showcase your collection. Lighting, of course, can be programmed to activate at just the right intensity levels at the touch of a button on your smartphone, tablet, remote, or keypad. Classical music can complement the effect.
3. True Colors: This isn’t exactly a function of an automation system, but those bulbs that brighten and dim automatically, can alter the colors of wall paint, furnishings, and other finishes—and in a bad way. Reds can look pink, greens can be mistaken for blue, and so on. You spent a lot of money on your furnishings, so color accuracy is important, and this boils down to the color rendering index (CRI) of the light bulb. Color rendering describes how a light source make the color of an object appear to the human eye. Bulbs are rated from 1 to 100, the highest offering the most accurate rendering of colors. According to Topbulb, an online supplier of all types of light bulbs, light sources with a CRI of 85 to 90 are considered good at color rendering.
4. Curtain Calls: Windows have become an increasingly popular architectural feature, with homeowners using them not just to provide a view of the outdoors but to add visual interest to a space. By attaching blinds, shades, curtain, and draperies (important for privacy and energy efficiency) to motorized tracks and rods, you’ll be able to admire your home’s windows easily at the touch of a button. Or, when linked to a home automation system, the window treatments can open and close automatically based on conditions like the time of day, the season, the position of the sun and other variables.
5. Less Wall Acne: Anything electronic device, component, or system that’s placed under the command of a home automation system can be controlled from a mobile app. For homeowners who feel comfortable with this approach, it eliminates the need to populate beautifully textured walls with switches, keypads, and control panels.
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