Automation is increasingly introduced into everyday life modern people. And if before the top of the progress could be considered automated production, now even life, apartment or a private house, It is possible to simply radically improve, bringing the concept of "smart home" there. After all, today the smart home systems are designed not only to optimize electricity costs, but first of all - to make a person's life more comfortable. The possibilities of modern systems "Smart Home" and will be discussed in our article.

Combine a home theater into one system, lighting control, water supply, video surveillance system, climate control, power supply and access control, gas supply and multi-member, is the task that the smart home system decides. Let's go consistently for each of the items, consider what they can modern systems automation in relation to our everyday life.

Climate control

The microclimate of public and residential premises strongly affects our performance, and on health as a whole. The conditions of the air in the premises are changing depending on the operation modes of climate techniques. Heating and ventilation equipment, lighting equipment, other devices - all this in the aggregate has a certain total effect on human body, well-being, on health in the end. And the technique is becoming more complicated.

Automated systems allow not only promptly monitoring and managing all this technique, but ultimately care about our health. Using the sensors, the current air condition is tracked in the room, and through the control panels, the operating modes of air conditioners are adjusted and supply ventilation, and heating. That is, the climate is configured automatically for the requirements of a person who are specified by the preliminary settings.

So climate control allows the following. Air quality control depending on the weather outside the window and from time to time. Timely ventilating premises by controlling heating and opening windows.

Warm floor management. Maintaining optimal temperatures and humidity individually in each room. For example, the storage room requires its special climate, which differs from climate in the living room or in the kitchen, etc.

Temperature, humidity control, inflow intensity fresh air, air purification system and ozonation. In each room, the conditions must be their most suitable for each family member, taking into account the place in the house where this room is located: some north, some south, - and management in each case will be individual.

In the nursery, drafts are unacceptable, in the bedroom should be warmer, in the bathroom, the floor must be warm in time, and you do not need to keep it warm all the time. That is, the control is optimal so that the effect of energy saving also would have a place.

The setting varies according to the lifestyle of the family or the team. On the weekend, heat supply in the workstations is reduced or disabled.

The autonomous heating system of the country house - on the contrary, turns on on the weekend. The boiler remotely turns on or translated into economical regime, etc. everything is rationalized to combine the efficiency and comfort of life. This especially applies to water supply, power supply and heat supply.

Entertainment

For a long time, no one would be surprised by the home theater. But control out different seats Sound and video, as well as stereo systems located all over the apartment - these functions are just implemented using the Smart Home system.

Home Cinema Connects to automated system, and the entire complex of multimedia equipment together with auxiliary devices is harmoniously integrated into the apartment. Sound sources and video can be several, and they can be multichannel: acustic systems, Receivers, plasma panels, projectors, - everything is managed directly or remotely from anywhere room.

You can watch movies and transfer, listen to music in all rooms or only in several, program the script and activate it with one button with the touch panel or from the remote control. The script program can be entered into individual conditions: blinds are closed, the light goes out or becomes less intense, the plasma panel turns on, the projector is put forward, the player starts.

Script programs can be edited, configure time to automatically start, set the associated settings to view the movies, for example, turn on the air conditioner near the place where the home theater is installed, if it is hot weather.

The "Multifunction" function is just the function that allows you to hear the sound or watch a video in several independent zones of the apartment. There is an ability to adjust the volume from any room, each of which are installed buttons or touch, wall or desktop controls, and there are consoles. remote control.

What could be a more expressive sign of the intellectuality of the smart home system than smart lighting management? Lighting in the "smart home" is truly reasonable and therefore economical. Electricity resources in the apartment, in the house or in the office are used as economical as possible, without unnecessary waste.

The advantage of the automated lighting control system is that it, based on the data from the external and outdoor lighting sensors, as well as the timer data, allows you to turn on and off the light of the desired brightness and only where it is really necessary. In addition, they open a wide scope for creativity. In addition, the option is available to simulate the presence of the hosts.

The modern system of "smart home" is a complex of technologies of comfort, safety and economy. Stability is ensured by integration in case of disabling the centralized power supply so that the electronics remains operational always.

Rechargeable batteries and inverters, charging devices and liquid fuel generators are installed in the system and programmatically integrate. At the time of turning off the electricity, the system will automatically switch to the backup source, as a last resort, the security systems will remain from the batteries and the most important equipment.

Automated security system

The smart home system includes as part, security and Fire Alarm And video surveillance, as to stay of the hosts in the house, and their absence would be safe and for home and for the owners themselves. A video intercomder and perimeter protection system can be installed here and the perimeter protection system to protect against unborn guests.

As for the safety at all, the smart home system is capable of providing: protection against short circuits in electrical wiring, protection against water leaks, protection against gas leaks, by triggering the smoke sensor and turn on the autonomous fire extinguishing system, autonomous power supply, signaling, automatic rescue call .

So, the "smart home" will protect himself and the owners from any dangerous situationsAfter all, the system can be included: automated gates and doors, automatic protective shutters, video surveillance system, security alarm, presence sensors, smoke, gas leaks, etc.

Control of access to the room, video surveillance over the surrounding territories, the inclusion of spotlights when penetrating the perimeter - three more pluses in the population of advantages. Through the Internet, the host will be able to remotely get a picture with any of the video surveillance system cameras, and the function of video signs can also be attributed.

Video surveillance as such

Intelligent video surveillance is one of the main component parts Modern "smart houses". Camcorders are connected to the Internet, and allow access to access from any point of the globe.

The owner may be abroad, while promptly observing any of the zones, and the camcorder can be managed here. For example, controlled cameras usually equip wickets, yards located nearby buildings, sites near the doors of apartments. The video camera operation can be associated with the motion sensor, and the signals can be fed to the control center.

Internet and satellite television networks, as the main sources of information, are conveniently integrated today in the Smart Home system. Being inside the house, the owner can receive information, and direct it to various premises, on TVs and monitors. This applies to the transmission of information received from video surveillance systems. Thanks to the "Multifunction" function, all these features are opened. Of course, over the Internet it is possible to configure if desired and remote control.

Office S. mobile phone Through direct voice commands and SMS software is available today for the owners of the smart home systems. You can also adjust call call forwarding and on your mobile phone, if you are outside the house, even being in another country.

If necessary, you can let guests in the house, simply sending the appropriate command from the mobile phone to its automated system. Similar features are conveniently implemented over the Internet, it will be enough to find Wi-Fi for a smartphone or laptop.

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Improve the dwelling and make it more comfortable one to any person. Regardless of whether it lives in a small-sized apartment studio or in country house In several floors that surround the hectares of the nuclear area.

Modern technologies make it possible to create fully automated houses and shift on automated devices. Many of the functions for managing life support systems, and in some cases fully automate the processes when a person's intervention is not required at all.

What is the difference in the automation of the house from the smart home

Very many real estate owners Any automatic or semi-automatic device that performs functions to turn on / off any device or consider it element " smart home" This is not so. And even the possibility of remote control of individual functions using the Internet does not make the house "smart".

Truly "smart" house is a comprehensive smart control of the management of the whole range of livelihood systems based on artificial Intellect computerized management system and operating in full offline mode. Human intervention in the work is required only in emergency situations or in the programming process.

Therefore, numerous firms-installers of elements of automation of the house are not always objectively and reliably communicate to a potential user-customer's meaning of innovations.

It does not always clarify that the overwhelming majority of electrical appliances included in the Smart Home are not needed in automation, since already have built-in functions:

• Refrigerators - fully automatic devices that work on a rigid program;
• Air conditioners do not require interference from the outside to maintain the specified temperature;
• Washing machines have a timer of delayed inclusion;
• The lighting / disconnection systems are easily controlled by the relays with photodiodes that react to the level of illumination and so the stare.

The creation of specialized livelihood management channels - the smart home itself is necessary only in cases where the residential premises operates in a fully offline mode. These include country houses (Cottages), where the only blessing of civilization is the driveway.

It is in them that you can fully realize all the advantages of remote control and control.

Automation apartment

Apartment in the MKD is just a cell included in the well-established system of utilities of the building. It rarely needs the full operation of the automation equipment of a smart home. The owner does not need to take care of heating, lighting, ventilation. The water supply system, in general, lies outside the possibility of any way to influence its presence. In case of disconnection of hot water, for the period of preventive repairs, those who have financial capabilities establish cumulative or flow boilers that work in automatic mode and do not need to be unauthorized.

Any arbitrary intervention with its own hands to the work of general life support networks is completely not welcomed by the management companies. Therefore, to implement the concept of a "smart home" in apartment house It is possible in a very limited scale:

• Set several controlled remote sockets to which the devices connect the timer to include / disable lighting or an antediluvian iron that has no disconnection relay during overheating or by time or other non-automatic electrical appliance.
• Forced to intervene in the operation of the air conditioner or electric heating floor, completely disconnecting them, or, on the contrary, turning on.
• Automate closing / opening curtains or blinds on the windows.
• Enable / disable audiovisual control system.

Attention! With the installation of hidden camcorders or microphones, even in own home You need to be extremely careful. All without exception, devices that do not have a sensor-signaling device about work, or disguised as other items in the Russian Federation are prohibited for use. Their acquisition is already the composition of the crime, which in the most adverse case can turn into a real detention period.

Therefore, selecting components for the equipment of the house (apartments), remember that the overwhelming majority of Chinese production gadgets are prohibited for implementation on the territory of the Russian Federation, and the ownership of them is a criminal offense.

Security system I. fire alarm Usually not included in the list of "smart home" elements, since they work independently of the desire of the owner, being in the on state. And when they are turned off, you lose any meaning.

Automation of a private house

Most country houses Constructed within the limits of highlighted sections for IRS and the requirements of the improvement have the supply of electrical and gas networks. Some villages are more comfortable and have central water supply and sewage complexes.

All this facilitates the content of suburban real estate, not fulfilling completely about the care of maintaining comfortable conditions inside and outside the room.

A private house can be fully equipped with an intelligent management system on the concept of a "smart home".

Even at the design stage, automation elements can be laid:

1. With power supply (from an autonomous electric generator).
2. Temperature control due to gas / liquid-fuel water heating boiler.
3. Controlling water supply system (with well / well water supply).
4. Air temperature control system in different rooms (residential, utility, economic).
5. The system for regulating the domestic and outdoor lighting of the household site.
6. Controlling the system of irrigation and feeding of farm animals.
7. The system of visual control inside and outside the premises and view of the local area.
8. It is possible to implement emergency disconnection of gas supply and power supply systems in case of emergency situations.

For some owners, most of the time outside the house, "Smart Home" is a system of automation of residential buildings, which is an urgent need.

Choosing a smart home management system

Modern systems allow you to control electrical appliances control connected to the module: sensors, thermostators, electroclapanes on wireless technologies. It is not required to lay the wires and cables inside the walls or plinths of the room, the walls of the walls and violate the existing communications or finish.

The most common is the Wi-Fi Channel Management Path. The inconvenience is that this feature is intended to transmit significant amounts of information and is not adapted for most instruments of the smart home, which work with short commands: "Enable / disable", "add / down", "up / down" and t . P.

• Z-Wave. - a specialized smart home management protocol operating at a frequency of 869 MHz and having high protected from foreign exposure and interference.
• Zigbee. - A similar specialized protocol, specially designed for the operation of devices in a set of "smart home", but using another frequency of 2400-2485 MHz.

Until now, the wide automation of residential buildings in the Russian Federation will rack due to high prices for equipment and installation, commissioning and maintenance of equipment. After all, it should work around the clock 24 hours a week without any failures. Otherwise, the defective equipment of the smart home can itself become a source of PE - fire, flooding of the room, defrosting the heating systems.

First of all, the economic effect of implementing automation systems is calculated. To roughly estimate the effectiveness and payback period of attachments, it will be useful to re-read the instructions for the electrical appliances available in the house. Most owners use only the main, most common features, without bothering themselves programming the full functional of the TV, air conditioning or water heating boiler.

It is possible that the "new" opportunities that will open after the installation of the Smart House system have already been laid and implemented in your technique you have, and for more high levelthan "Enable / disable" or "add / down".

Check, is it critical of the possibility of remote control of air temperature in different rooms? This function pays off only for owners of country houses, when, during the lack of hosts, the temperature decreases to an acceptable minimum, and the host of the hosts increases to comfortable residential.

Most functions implemented in the "smart home" are interesting only at the first time after they are installed. The possibility of remote visual control satisfies only the curiosity of the owner of the premises, nor how much does not prevent the actions of the attackers who have penetrated into the house. Much effectively system centralized security. Using the automatic opening / closing function of the curtain in the bedroom or the ability to adjust the volume of music in the next room - so doubtful that only the true fans of continuous communication with a mobile device can be interested in the physical movement.

Probably because the functionality offered in the framework of the smart home is small and irrelevant for the majority, home automation is not particularly popular.

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What is a smart home?

"A tiny mouse robots poured out of the hole in the wall. In all rooms, there are small fussy metal cleaners and rubber. They knocked out about the chair, the vertors with their bristle rollers, drove the carpet pile, quietly sucking the hidden dust. Then disappeared, as if unknown aliens, they jurmed to their asylum. Their pink electrical eyes were ground. The house was clean. "

Familiar lines? This is an excerpt from the translation of the story "There will be a tender rain" of the American science writer R. Bradbury half a century ago, in which the empty automated house monitors the cleanliness and supports the home schedule installed by the owners.

In the 1950s, one could only dream of such "intellectual" homes in popular science journals and books. Conceptual developments of a comfortable automatic dwelling, if they were, were called differently. Before the emergence of the term "Smart Home" in the public, about 20 years remained.

Motion sensors, warm floors, air conditioners, ventilation systems and heating boilers It was regularly worked, but independently, not knowing about the existence of each other. Is it worth saying that a person had to take care of the comfort of his housing itself. If the window was opened and the air conditioner is turned on, then adjust the temperature and humidity was handed to handle the testimony of the outdoor thermometer.

Smart home ... technology?

The fact that the house may be smart, the middle of the middle of the middle of the 20th century also knew how the black and white TV development engineers knew that they would subsequently release color models. Meanwhile, without publicly available technologies and open standards, about at least a massive and inexpensive "smart home" and speech went.

For comparison, the intelligent home of the American billionaire-philanthropt Bill Gates, designed and built in the late 1980s, cost a well-known entrepreneur to the fabulous 63 million dollars.

In 1975, confusion with data transfer standards for home systems began to go to no. The audience was submitted by the X10 protocol - the first Open Industrial Data Standard in home automation systems. He was a communications protocol for electronic devicesworking at a frequency of 60 Hz and voltage 110 V in the usual home electrical network. This somewhat limited the market of countries where compatible devices could be used. In the Soviet Union, they would definitely not earn.

The future owner of the home automation system according to the X10 standard was enough to purchase the necessary modules, insert them into sockets and connect home appliances to the home network through them to control them freely. Of course, at that time, the introduction of working modules of remote control over modem or high-speed management centers with programmable scenarios may not occur.

Only in 1978, the first modules according to the X10 standard appear on the market: 16-channel command console, the module for controlling the lamp, the module for controlling the electrical appliance. Subsequently, the modules are switches and a timer module. In theory, it was 1978 that many historians are considered to be the starting point in the history of home automation and smart houses. At the same time, the purpose of the first home automation systems was automation, and not the creation of scenarios management of engineering communications and utilities of a residential building.

Reasonable house

In the early 1990s, the first commercially successful solutions appeared and the young home automation system market was flooded by numerous firms offering various type solutions, which is called "turnkey". Such a burst was caused by the appearance of a new international standard. electronic system 1992, regulating the release of equipment for smart houses, which made it possible to release systems and individual products by almost any commercial company or firm.

New systems left for easy automation of light or household appliances and offered scripts, for example, a "sleep" scenario, when the power of household lamps decreased, the electrical appliances were turned off, except for the most important, for example, the refrigerator, and the air conditioner turned on in the bedroom, down the temperature to a comfortable level.

Scenario "Guard" worked when the owner left the house and household appliances Together with light devices began to simulate the usual routine of the day of tenants, showing potential thieves and criminals that the house is not empty. In case of illegal penetration, alarm was activated, which could not only notify the district with a strong sound signal about the fact of hacking, but also including appliances and lighting, scare away a potential criminal.

By the end of the 1990s, the market situation improved, because Buyers got the opportunity to choose between products of various firms and various price categories.

So at what point the home automation system began to call "smart homes"?

In fact, the term "smart home", which is so good to our compatriots, is, a kind, a team of the Sankan values \u200b\u200bfrom the English-speaking world. In Western understanding there are several definitions of a smart home, depending on the format, scale and purpose of use: This is Home Automatization, Smart Home and Smart House. Each of them indicates a strictly defined market sector.

Accordingly, home automatization is home automation systems; Smart Home - Smart Houses; Smart House - Smart Buildings. In Russian, the "smart home" has absorbed all the above, listed concepts and added new ones. For example, multimedia systems (multimedia and home theater, music center), which in the West strictly to the modern homemade smart home do not include and often represent commensurate complexity and costs with smart houses ready-made solutions.

Smart turnkey house

"Smart Houses" for Russians are, first of all, compact home solutions that allow you to automate routine processes in the house: turn on and off the light; Check the condition of electrical appliances, such as iron, or refrigerator; Install video nanny to trace the small child; adjust the work of climate control systems (warm floors, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, etc.); Make it all remotely, preferably from a mobile device, not from the house, and from work, on the road, or in another city, or even abroad.

Today there is no need to think - how to make a smart home? Now ready-made solutions This level is present in the market sufficient number. Such a state of affairs was caused by the technical boom of the 1990s - early 2000s in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, mainly in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, who were able to provide a massive issue of relatively cheap in production and accessible on the retail market as microcontrollers, So individual solutions for automation systems, smart homes.

System "Smart Home"

In the world, most of the commercial and residential real estate objects are equipped with automation systems or smart home systems, and in Russia this process is in its infancy. It is already clear that the automation management of a whole building gives many advantages, for example, reduces the costs of service staff, increases the level of comfort for guests, optimizes energy consumption, water supply and gas supply, reduces the malnutrition. Add Tags

He wrote him in response to numerous requests to tell about his vision of how the smart home should look like.

Ideal automation at home

People often ask me, about my vision of home assistant (literally, home assistant, then on). Before describing where we want to get from on, I must first talk about how home automation should look in my perfect world. This will be the goal of this post. I am not going to focus on protocols, networks or specific controllers of the smart home. These are all the details of the implementation. Instead, this post will focus on what is really important: interacting between man and his house.

You should not adapt to technology

When people start using home automation, they always start from management: the ability to control devices in new ways using a phone or computer. They believe that the future came, and their app on the phone will be the remote control of their lives. They are focused only on what they get, but not on what they lose. You install several "smart" light bulbs and, suddenly, you get the opportunity to use switches in the wall. When you come home at night, you are forced to get your phone, open the application, wait until it connects to the home network and finally get the opportunity to turn on the light.

Yes, you can solve this problem configuring the detection of your presence, but what if your battery got in your phone? You will have to use the switch anyway.

If you suddenly find that the use of your new smart devices has become burdensome, then you will experience the feeling that home automation technology has not justified your hopes. Your light should work with both switch (or button) when entering the room and using the presence determination method. Honestly, hardly exist more or less adequate solutions to control lighting from your phone, except for demonstration purposes.

You are not the only user smart home

People tend to forget that they are not alone live in the house. As a developer of solutions in your home, you are enthusiastic with the capabilities you get, but you ignore the shortcomings. The chances of the fact that other people in your home are passionate about other things and want to do their own deeds - very great.

This means that everything you automatize must work flawlessly. If you manage to reach 90% of the successful success, you have 10% probability of failure. For example, you set up a smooth attenuation of light in the living room when you start watching a movie or a series. But in reality it works only if all family members sit down to watch movies.

Limit the effect of pseudo-utility and negative influence

When you create a new script, you must always think about what consequences will if it does not work? Everything smart systems consist of different devicescreated by different manufacturers who communicate with each other on different protocols: Sometimes everything goes wrong. And you have to do everything on you depends to minimize negative influence If everything goes wrong because it was thinking. Ideally, the devices should become "stupid" and start working as they worked until automation. For example, Philips Hue lamps work like ordinary light bulbs, if you use simple switch In the wall and do not connect them to the control system. If everything gets worse in the system in the system, the people you live with - rise. For example, NEST thermostat problems, which, due to a logical error in its firmware, suddenly stopped dumping the house. Horror.

The perfect application - no application

Smart House Must be combined with your rhythm of life, and not to replace it. For most devices, there is no faster management than that you already manage. In most cases, the best application is his absence. A single interface that can be more convenient or accessible to you and your guests of any age is a voice interface. The manufacturers have already implemented it, and the largest of them focused on it. Take the example of Apple: the only way to control your devices in Homekit is Siri. Amazon went on, and created Amazon Echo, which constantly listens all that is happening through the connected microphones. I expect yet more companies Join this trend in 2016.

The voice interface is also not ideal. The speed with which you can serve commands is low, because you need to wait for the reaction. There is also a problem with understanding the teams, the recognition of accents and dependence on cloud services for processing your voice. I believe that all problems except the first, ultimately be solved.

However, this does not mean that there is no place for applications in your life, it definitely is. They are perfectly suitable for checking the status of your home when you are not in it or for entertainment when you remotely light the light when children come to visit you.

Your system should work inside the house, not in the cloud.

Cloud services - real magic. Somewhere in the world, there are computers that collect all the data that generates your home check them on the correctness and send commands back when necessary. Cloud services will be updated with time to become better and more convenient. But while it is not. There are many reasons why your home can lose connection with cloud services. The Internet can stop working, or the update has been established with an error, or the servers in the cloud broke.

When this happens, your home must be able to function normally. You should not use cloud services to create home automation, but to expand their functionality - quite. Thus, you avoid problems that can happen when, for example, Amazon AWS and Amazon Echo stopped working.

It was written 2.5 years ago, but today, the technology market has not yet advanced in the formation of the basic ideology of building home automation systems. Yes, they became smarter, and voice control has become better, but the foundations of how a smart home should look like - still not formed.

Why are all marketing models built on what blinks or glows? Because it is a wow factor. But the essence of automation is completely different. She must solve problematic issues of your life. That is, if something that can be automated becomes easier than doing this manually - then this is a delta target.

Let's look at the examples. Here we take smart sockets. In fact, they are needed to include something that is mainly turned off, and only when it is really necessary. That is, we must first sort out this situation and understand when and what we need, and how really we need to automate this process. And for this inventing situations, sometimes significantly more funds and resources goes out than if we just approached this device and turned it on.

Or take, for example, smart light bulbs. Especially with RGB color. In principle, smart light bulbs were invented in order to either zonate lighting if necessary, but mostly they are required when it is not possible to control wired light bulbs as we want, because of the inability to remake the old wiring for new requirements. In addition, there are quite a few cases when at the repair stage, all sorts of niches are made with illuminated vases, which are planned to be placed in them, and on the fact this backlight is turned on a couple of times, and then not used at all. Well, or colored light bulbs, or diode tapes, which are sometimes installed with the remake of the ceiling, and then used as a demonstration of "cool chips" but no payload carries. Most people do not bother about how the color of lighting on an emotional background or biorhythms affects. Many do not even know that the lighting on it in principle affects. And that, in theory, the lighting can be used for relaxation purposes or vice versa to cheer up. But no, wow factor - taxis.

But the main goal of smart processes in the house is a solution to really serious problems. Well, for example, the organization of ventilation of the premises in which we live. After all, everyone knows that new technologies allow you to make an apartment or a house almost isolated from the external environment. New windows, heat and moisture insulation make it possible to make an apartment almost impenetrable. But at the same time, for example in winterpeople do not think that the air must be moistened, and that the necessary comfortable humidity in the apartment must be within 30-45% in winter time and 30-60% in the summer. What about carbon dioxide level? After all, we often do not even think about how the air is breathing. And there for example norms and rules. For example, GOST 30494-2011 states that the permissible values \u200b\u200bof the content of carbon dioxide measured in units of CO 2 * cm / m ( international designation - PPM) must be within 600-1000PPM. And these are permissible values. Although many modern physiologists argue that 1000 is no longer allowed. Permissible are 600-800ppm values.

And that's really important aspects of your life. And in order to achieve such parameters in a modern city, with modern living conditions, it is necessary to use one device, but a complex of ventilation devices, air conditioning, drying and moisture. And it is almost impossible to achieve optimal parameters in manual mode.

And this is where home automation exist. Which really improve the quality of our life.

Or, for example, there are many disputes regarding leakage prevention systems. Now the market has a huge number of leakage sensors. Well, what is it from them, if the riser in the apartment does not block, and you go to the house to go? Of course, it is good that you will learn about it and may come home earlier than the neighbors of which you flood to block your own strength before your arrival (which is hardly of course, but perhaps). And yes, there are many autonomous technical solutionswhich can close the cranes. But for some reason they want to manage this process. That is, when creating a leak protection system, they use a certain central controller of the smart home. And they do not want to use for example autonomous solutions that are in the market, but not integrate while in the smart home system. Question What for?After all, the main task is to prevent flooding. The ability to close or open a crane at will - a nice bonus, but the main task is to close the crane and prevent flood. Even if the electricity has grown out, or the controller of the smart home is hung, or in the battery selected sensor. The crane should close and that's it.

Therefore, my personal opinion consists in very simple theses:

1. Too complex automation - harm the quality of your life, especially if you live alone
2. It is necessary to simplify complex, and should not complicate a simple.
3. Automation should improve the quality of life, but not to create problems if they suddenly stopped working.

The ideal automation system - must be intuitive. And do not require a training course to turn on the light in the bathroom, and wave a hand or press the button to update the timer value that automatically turns off the light .... Well, you understand ....

The smart home system is designed for maximum comfort in an apartment or a private house. Full or partial automation of the house will allow you to forget about the large accounts for electricity and heating, make household appliances work without the participation of the owner and increase efficiency security system. The ability to manage the whole home from one panel or even remotely gives a warranty of comfort in its housing. Returning home, you can be sure that the room is warm, scored a hot bath, and the robot vacuum cleaner brought cleaning without reminders. All these and many other features are available in the Smart Home system.

Automation capabilities

A unique system automation system allows not only get comfortbut also save spending on utilities. Light turns on only when a person appears, and heating works on full power Only in the programmed time or in the presence of the owner is not all that a smart home can.

The main advantages of automation:

1. In the room there will always be a microclimate, perfect for the owner of the housing. Air temperature, humidity and other parameters are kept constantly or configured in each room at a certain time. This allows you to forget about discomfort after awakening or irritation upon return from work.
2. Under control there is every object, and you can even control big Distance. By setting up the system for yourself, you can get hot coffee in the morning with the toasts without any effort, enjoy the sauna immediately after returning from work, without waiting for its heating, warm the water in the pool without leaving the house.
3. If any malfunction occurs, the system will not allow the inclusion of the object and send data on the breakdown to the owner. This allows you to avoid short circuit and other troubles.

A constantly improving production process allows you to install the system in a house or apartment without overhaul. The entire wiring system will now replace the switches with radio devices, which transmit information to the control center.

Costs for the "Smart Home" system

Install the system smart home can in any room: in the apartment, at the cottage, in a private house or even an office. Automating the place in which you have to be most often, you can save a lot of time and not distracted from important things on trifles, like coffee cooking.

Costs depend on many factors:

• system type and equipment used;
• method for managing a smart home;
• quantity household appliances and other features of the room;
• square of housing and the availability of the local area.

It is quite logical that the automation of a private house will cost its owner much more expensive than installing the system in small apartment. This is due to the fact that its home often contains more equipment, the heating system is individual.

Additional costs are related to the maintenance of the house territory:

• often need video surveillance, protection is distributed not only on entrance door and windows, and on the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe plot;
• requires gardening, watering plants;
• bath or pool connected to the system also require additional costs.

Advantages in automation more, and all expenses pay off by small accounts from resource Consolidating Organizations and time savings that you can spend, doing your favorite thing.

What makes the costs

The cost of the finished system depends on the possibilities and fancy of the owner of the house. The final price is made of the following:

1. The cost of the selected equipment. The needs of people in the automation of housing and offices are constantly increasing, so manufacturers try to develop and produce new items. The owner of the house or apartment initially must decide whether it is not the most modern, but budgetary equipment or want to equip the house for the latest technology.
2. Finished system model or individual selection. Finished systems include a limited range of possibilities that are necessary in each room. If you wish to automate the house to the smallest details, you will need individual designFor which you have to pay extra.
3. Installation of equipment. Older and cheap options require the installation of cables, so they are better installed during the repair process. Otherwise, after automation, the house will have to re-glue the wallpaper. Modern equipment Works with radio transmitters and does not require cable mounting.
4. Installation software. The complexity depends on the selected management method. Budget options, managed using different consoles, are not as expensive as ensuring its comfort with a single touch panel or through a computer.

I. additional expensesassociated with non-standard accommodation engineering networksthat will have to go around in the installation process.

Simple version of the "smart home" Allows independent installation, while the costs will be significantly less. Minus this option is one - controlling it will not be able to all processes in the house, but only the main: light, heating, closing the curtains in the dark. This is the minimum set, some manufacturers offer a wider range. Turnkey installation requires confidence in his skills, attentiveness and accuracy, so at the lowest doubt, as a result, the work should be entrusted with specialists.

Automation outcome

Automation of your home or apartment will allow release a lot of time, not to be distracted by household and enjoy a full-fledged stay after work. The costs that the acquisition and installation of equipment require will quickly pay off a significantly reduced amount in the accounts. Own comfort and confidence that all the equipment, lighting and heating devices They work exclusively in accordance with the wishes of the owner, will not be allowed to doubt the correctness of the decision.