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The Home Controls
Lifestyle
Comfort, Convenience, Security and Energy Savings. That's what the Home
Controls lifestyle is all about. This section will
serve as a valuable resource that will highlight eight of the most
popular systems in your home, complete with pre-engineered system
designs for you. Each system is compatible with the other systems, so
you can have a fully integrated home.
Review our Pre-Engineered
Systems below, and in the coming weeks look for the comprehensive guide
for complete Home Automation and Networking. Each system will have the
recommended products and instructions to have your
home in complete control.
Pre-Engineered Systems include:
Structured Wiring, Automation and Security, Lighting Control, HVAC,
Distributed Audio, Distributed Video, Irrigation, Drape and Central Vac,
Telephone System
Structured Wiring System
Modern day life requires modern communication capabilities in your home.
A structured wiring system allows you to have complete control of voice,
video and data transmissions to and from any room. So, you can share
broadband internet signals with multiple computers in any room, share a
printer or scanner with any of your computers, and distribute DVD or
satellite signals from a single entertainment component to some or all
of the TV's in your home. You can also easily distribute security camera
signals to all of your TV's. It is no exaggeration to say that today,
any home that is built without structured wiring is obsolete as soon as
the drywall is installed.
Automation and Security System
Security, lighting and appliance control, automatic air conditioning
control, and energy savings all add up to a better way of life. Your
Home Controls Lifestyle is greatly enhanced with automation and
security.
Residential Automation
Your home will know how you live, and when you open your garage door, if
nobody is at home and it is dark, all your normally activated lights in
the house will come on, your thermostat will change to comfort mode, and
your distributed audio will begin playing soft background music. Or….
Anything else you want it to do! When dusk occurs and you are home, all
of your homes lighting will come on to whatever configuration and dim
levels you normally live with…..automatically. When you go to bed at
night, one button push will turn off all lights, appliances and
entertainment components, set back the thermostat to economy mode, close
the drapes and enable the security system in the night mode. You get the
idea! Why should you have to spend time doing repetitive things over and
over when your home can work for you?
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Security
Nothing is more important than the security of you and your family.
Nothing. So you want the best integrated system available. Whenever an
alarm condition occurs in your home, your Home Controls Lifestyle
automation system will call you, your monitoring company, your neighbor
or whoever else you want…. According to the time of day or night. If
there is anybody home, your system will not only sound an alarm, but
will also shut down your HVAC system in case of fire and light a path
for your escape. At the same time, it will flash the front outside
lights for emergency personnel to more easily identify your house. In
the event of a burglary, not only will an alarm sound and phones be
dialed, but every light in the house will come on! Burglars HATE light
and sound.
Lighting and Appliance Control System
You will need lighting dimmers, switches and modules in order to control
your lights and some appliances. You will get great satisfaction out of
being able to walk into your family room, press one button, and have all
six lights turn on for you. Or, be able to press one button at your
nightstand when you are ready to go to sleep, and have all the lights in
your home turn off. With lighting and appliance control, you will also
have a powerful tool to help you control your energy costs.
HVAC Control
Imagine the convenience, comfort and energy savings you would enjoy if
your home always knew when to set your air conditioning and heating to
the optimum temperature for you. That is precisely what the Home
Controls Lifestyles programmable thermostats will do for you. They can
work manually as you would normally set a thermostat, or they can work
like ordinary programmable thermostats, and they can work automatically
in conjunction with your Automation system controller to be part of the
household scenes you set up. When you come home at night and open your
garage door, your thermostat can re-set itself to comfort mode. When
when you tell your automation system you are going to sleep, or you
enable your security system in the away mode, your system will set the
thermostat to the economy mode… without a thought from you. Or, you can
call your home from your cell phone and tell your thermostat to cool or
heat the house for you. For larger homes, you can even install zone
systems that will keep certain parts of the home air conditioned and
some not, depending on occupancy or other factors that you determine.
Audio |
Automation | HVAC | Life
Styles | Lighting | Phone
| Security | Video|
Wiring
Distributed
Audio
Listen to soft background music, crank up the volume to party volume, or
distribute audio from the big game to every room in your home. This is a
Lifestyle that is truly satisfying. With a Home Controls Lifestyles
Zoned Distributed Audio System, you can even listen to your jazz CD in
one room, the TV in another room, and FM in another. Up to six different
sources in six different rooms! And, amazingly enough, this is very
simple and economical to install.
Distributed
Video
Whole house video distribution is becoming more and more popular. You
may want to send satellite or HDTV signals from your family room to all
the TV's in your home. Or you may want to distribute security camera
video images from the front door and nursery to each TV in your home.
This system requires you to have the Structured Wire System in order to
get the signals to all of your household TV's.
Phone System
Upscale homes many times want the same amenities on their phone systems
as do small businesses. The Panasonic Residential/Small Business KSU
Phone System gives you access to these amenities. You can start out with
three phone lines and eight telephone set extensions, and expand up to
as many as six phone lines and 24 telephone sets with this advanced
system. You will enjoy a sophisticated voice. |