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How Home Automation Ireland Helps with Aging in Place

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:39:07 +0000

Home automation, also known as a ‘smart home’, involves the use of modern technology to have household activities done automatically, which means it requires only little to no intervention from the user. With the help of Remote Control Systems Ireland, homeowners or users have remote control over the devices or equipment performing certain activities.

What is Home Automation for?

The primary goal of home automation Ireland is to create homes that are more enjoyable, easier, and safer to live in. This technology can benefit especially the disabled or the elderly who are aging in place. These are the seniors and the elderly people who remain in their own homes.

Below are the several ways the use of Savant smart control 12 and other smart home systems can make the lives of an older person easier and more comfortable:

For locking and unlocking doors

A smart lock helps seniors avoid getting locked out because of a forgotten or lost key. With home automation, tapping on a keypad or having one’s iris or fingerprints scanned can be used to authorize admittance. WIth this technology, an ill or frail elderly person can also admit trusted individuals without having to get up from the bed or change.

Operating lights

An expert electrician from a retail electronics shop can set or program a smart house lighting system to master the patterns of its owner. Here, information is gathered about when an elderly person usually switches on and off the lights and lamps. A motion sensor is also used to determine when the user has left the room, or perhaps has fallen asleep while watching TV.

It’s very interesting also that the lighting system in a smart home can also meet the changing demands of an elderly person. Using a home automation system, the level of lighting in a house or room can be adjusted automatically according to what is comfortable and suitable to the visual ability of an elderly person.

Safety and security

Home automation Ireland provides the elderly with a safer environment in the bathroom and kitchen. Remote controls can be used to auto-adjust bathroom water for a safer temperature. There is also a smart stove that switches off by itself, making the home much safer for older people who are likely to forget they are cooking something.

Old people have brittle bones, so falls are extremely disabling for them. The good thing is that there are fall detectors that can be programmed so that a caregiver or a family member can be alerted immediately in case this accident happens.

Lifestyle Electronics is your number one source of Home Energy Monitoring Device Ireland and other home automation systems that are guaranteed to give your loved ones a comfortable and safe home environment.

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Modern technology in Period houses and Conservation projects

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:47:47 +0000

Recently we have been working on some large period houses that have been bought by foreign investors. It seems that this is a good time to be investing in large estates and properties. One of the first things the new owners look at putting in place is communications and TV services. We have installed internet and telephone systems that allows them to connect to their offices back home and also keep an eye on their property in Ireland. From a PC or iPAD from anywhere in the World they can view their investment using camera systems that have been discretely installed on the property.

Most of the new owners will be used to state of the art audiovisual systems and will look for the same here. A lot of these estates will not have the most up to date wiring. However, using a combination of wired and wireless technologies we can ensure that their owners have all the comforts of a modern house while living in a period home. Using Savant audiovisual systems they can easily control any of the systems in the house. When back home they can also monitor and manage the heating systems.

Bearing in mind that most of these buildings are listed, we use equipment that can be concealed therby reducing wall clutter with unsightly wall switches, controls and thermostats. These buildings were designed for different times but that does not mean that the new owners cannot enjoy the comforts that modern technology brings.

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Home Automation Supports Philips Hue Smart LED Bulbs

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:22:24 +0000

The latest release of Savant Systems’ home automation software supports the increasingly popular Philips Hue RGB smart bulbs.

The communications protocol for Philips Hue has been profiled and is now native to the Savant platform – no third party drivers or accessories required.

Savant executive VP Jim Carroll tells CE Pro that Savant created the profile at the request of “our expanding retail channel of Apple Authorized Resellers.”

While they can’t get their hands on the bulbs for resale (Apple is the exclusive authorized retailer), dealers recognize that “Hue is a hot item,” says Carroll, and they want to support their own customers with technologies they desire.

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Design & Comfort Keys to Living Room Theater

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:20:37 +0000

The owners of this theater are comfortable navigating an iPad, so an Apple-based Savant control system was right for them, says Mike Wilson of Bethesda Systems. Aside from the A/V controls, the chief subsystem they need to worry about commanding is the lighting. “It’s a multipurpose room, so to set all the lighting was more challenging,” says Wilson.

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10.000 W Uber Sub Helps Room Rock Down 9HZ

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:19:00 +0000

The space that would become this award-winning home theater had sat for a while as an empty concrete room while the homeowner eyed its possibilities. It turned out that his eyes were bigger than his stomach. In other words, his home theater dreams were bigger than his future home theater room. What does a person do in that situation? Why, call up the heavy equipment, of course. In this case, the heavy equipment meant an excavation crew to dig down past the existing foundation nearly another three feet. “It was extreme,” says World Wide Stereo’s Chad Snedaker, who helped usher the home theater project along for 18 months. “Most theaters have two rows of seats, but this homeowner wanted three, and to accommodate the sight lines we either had to go up or down. Since up meant going into the [home’s] living area, we had to go down.”

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10.000 W Uber Sub Helps Room Rock Down 9HZ

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:12:16 +0000

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