1. Lighting: choosing the right lighting is essential for wellness, functionality, and enjoyment of your home at any time of the day. The optimal lighting will assist with your circadian rhythm, reduce stress on your eyes as well as help with creating different moods for different occasions. Enjoy cosy ambiance for movie nights, brighter light for working and reading, Soft warm tones for night mode or even pink flashing to indicate the doorbell is ringing.
2. Use smart blinds: Automated shading / blinds are convenient and can add a touch of elegance to your home. You can control them via remote, phone or voice, or set them as per a schedule or randomly generated presence simulation. Smart shading can also help you save energy by retaining heat, or allowing or blocking solar gain depending on your home heating or cooling requirement.
3. Incorporate energy management: Energy efficiency is of more importance than ever as costs increase and our collective focus on carbon net zero increases. Maximise your renewable energy sources within your home with greater system capacity, include batteries, and load management, for example, give certain home functions priority over the electric vehicle charger, ensuring maximum use of self-generated power.
4. Integrate motion control: the utmost convenience, for your home to look after you, as well as optimising your energy usage in this area too, with lights, heating and more being activated and deactivated based on presence. This also gives many options for creating additional automation for true intelligent living, with increased security and peace of mind for wellness factors.
5. Create a central hub: To make the most of your home automation, it's highly recommended to have a central hub – a unified system gives a cohesive home with the ease of integration, operation and maintenance. With a main unified system approach, you can streamline your daily routine, overall making your home look, and you feel more stylish and organised.
By following these tips, you can create a stylish and functional home automation set-up that will make your life easier and more convenient.
