Home Automation: What it is and how it works

What is Control4

Control4 Home Automation (automation or as we prefer to call it), is certainly nothing new and has long been available in various forms. Many users, however, have a bad feeling about the word 'control' and the opinions on whether or not to place a system distributed at least. Home automation is expensive, automation is complicated, automation can not integrate without major renovations and so on ... Today there are quite a few solutions available and the opinions stated are certainly above their origins in the way some systems are built.Control4 Home Automation has listened to users and has developed a system that takes into account the specific needs of users even! The result is an easy to integrate , affordable complete solution that not only can control your lights or your port is open, but that you also your sound system , flat screen, media player can control, video surveillance and other applications.

Control4 is now right for me?

Until recently, installing a home automation or automation system a big "wow" factor. The plant was prominent in the home and the very purpose of the system was often of secondary importance. Many people therefore have the false belief that automation only fits in spacious villas and luxury apartments. Control4 offers solutions for all types of houses and the focus shifts back to the essence of automation .We are confronted daily with new technologies and our homes are becoming smarter. Automation helps us to serve all those techniques in a simple, convenient and user-friendly way. Automation allows us to use all of these devices to a maximum of their capacities.

Too many remotes ...

How many remote controls lying there in your living room? Can anyone independently in the house serve all devices? How about a single remote control that is intelligent enough to control all the devices in your home depending on what you ask? What if the same remote controls with a single button press can already turn off the lights in your house when you go to bed? That's the power of automation!

Control4 home automation is expensive?

Placing an automation or automation system remains an investment and often it is necessary to add additional equipment to serve all the technology in your home. If you then also know that your Control4 home automation system must be programmed by your installer can best cost something. Here Control4 offers solutions to keep as interesting as possible positioning system.
How do we do that? Besides the fact that the Control4 home automation products at the base have been interesting priced, the system has influenced a number of properties that total costs and initial investment in a positive way. Control4 provides for the techies among us a " home edition " software that allows the user to perform self minor adjustments to the system, without having having to invoke the installer.

Control4 offers numerous solutions that installing new wiring is realized worden.De best feature of the system is however that it can be modular. Among the Control4 slogan "dream big, start small ' you are not required with a Control4 system to carry out the entire project at once. The aforementioned advantages such as simplified programming, remote service and minimum need of wiring, allows you to expand your system depending on needs and budget. All this has the result that you can already start with a basic Control4 home automation system at a price lower than a good universal remote. You should discuss the options with Smart Living, this information and professional advice does not cost!

Control4 is a complicated system?

Control4 has spared no effort to ensure the usability of the system. In the development of our products was also here put the focus on the essence and the question asked was' at the user needs and what is superfluous? ' Less is more ' is certainly applications where the user gets all the necessary functionality to perfectly control the property without lots of unnecessary features that are rarely or never used and make the system cluttered. The user interface (operation screen) is the result of a thorough study as a starting point an intuitive experience for gebruiker.De control logic is executed and automatically generated by the system.

The user chooses the position he wishes to perform , for example, watch DVDs , and the system knows exactly which devices must be turned on and which institution they should be. The Control4 remote control will now automatically intelligent remote control of your DVD player. With one press of a button is all just as easily switched off. You can even link the lighting of the living room so the lights dim automatically when the TV inschakelt.Uiteraard Control4 offers also the possibility to control the system via iPad, iPhone, Android, PC and Mac, with the same uncluttered user interface. A good automation or automation system is intuitive and easy to use and that is exactly what we strive for smart living.

Control4 I should not grow there?

For some applications it will indeed be necessary to make some adjustments in the home. Control4 also tries here need to be reduced a minimum by developing products in a smart way. Numerous Control4 home automation products use wireless technology or standard wiring already present in most homes. Further, using automation Control4 not have its own system bus, but standard network cabling requiring modifications be minimal in the existing wiring. We know only too well that just this point can be a major stumbling block in deciding whether or not an automation sys placing m. When developing the system, we also pay the utmost attention to minimize these inconveniences. Their expertise combined with our smart products, the need in many cases to grow fully avoided. Again, the rule applies inform ' costs nothing . Therefore discuss your requirements with us and get informed about the possible in your home.

What things I can control my Control4 system

Basically, you can with a Control4 system to operate any device which can be operated by remote control in one way or another. Devices which are thus controlled by switches, buttons , infrared remote controls , etc ... can be linked to your Control4 system. The big advantage is that the system will combine everything in one central remote control so that you can control the entire home. Add to this a bit intelligent logic to it and it is really child's play to a wide range of problem-technical equipment to use and easy. Depending on how extensive the system makes the possibilities are almost endless ... But to think already, your gate or garage door, your light, your heat, your audio and video equipment, your surveillance, your electric door locks, your doorbell, your ventilation system you curtain control , your motion, your garden system, your digital TV decoder, you.