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Benefits of Home Automation
Mon 30 Mar 2009 - 08:44
Benefits of Home Automation
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anthony_Kuo]Anthony Kuo
Imagine you walk into your home after a hard day at office and every thing from the lights to the central heating system gets switched on automatically when you enter the house. You do not have to even make an effort to go to each switchboard to get them started. Now it has become possible to make this dream of yours come true with the technology of home automation. The basic purpose of home automation is to make things for the human beings more easy and comfortable. It is almost like in fairy tales where you clap and you get whatever you want without any effort.
The word automation is used to refer to a method of using automatic means to control a process so as to lessen the amount of human interference. This technology has become very popular in the manufacturing business where robots with a complicated built are used during the manufacture of laptops, mobiles, cars and many more such products. The use of automation system has made the manufacturing industry more efficient as lesser work force is required in the business.
At your house, home automation serves a similar purpose, which is to free you from all the hassles of managing everything. All homes possess some kind of technology, often an assortment of technologies. There are the lights, the heating system, the security system and many more. With the use of the home automation system you can enhance the existing equipments by automating them so that you can communicate with them without actually being near them to regulating them manually.
The home automation system works by breaking the existing equipments in the house into four categories of purpose that they serve. The first category includes lighting control. This helps you to turn the lights on and of remotely. They prove to be quite helpful for conserving energy. The next category involves home security. They integrate range of security mechanisms to protect you from intruders by not letting them enter your premises and alerting you before hand. The third category involves climate control. They play a crucial role in maintaining the temperature of the room automatically and also conserves energy by switching the system off when there is no one at home. The last category involves the automatic regulation of home entertainment. You can manage your music system and your television with the use of remote. You even have the option to create new settings where you can combine all these categories into one. For example you can have a party button which when switched on will dim the lights, pulls
down the blinds and plays your favorite music.
The functioning of all home automation system is based on relaying of signals. There are many techniques of performing this like Z-Wave (wireless), X10 and UPB (wired signals) and Insteon (wired and wireless combination). These systems also incorporate some system so that you can control the signals. Highly developed systems have central controls so that the user can control any part of the system. Technologies are also available so that you can control your system by phone or the computer or over the internet.
Anthony Kuo is author of this article on [http://www.smart-home-automation-guide.com/home_automation.html]home automation.
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