Surprising Things You Can Do with Custom Audio Video and Home, Building or Environment Automation

Custom audio video and home, building or environment automation may sound awfully complicated and out there – something that your normal, everyday person would really have no particular use for. After all, how hard is it to run around and turn off the lights in all the rooms or check that the doors and windows are locked?

Consider for a minute how often you use the remote control for your television and cable box. Back in the day when remote controls first showed up on the scene, the common reaction was to question the sanity of anyone who couldn’t be bothered to walk across the room to change the channel. Of course, the whole world of audio/video has changed so much since those days that the idea of controlling even a simple television without a remote control is ludicrous. It won’t be long before most people see home automation systems the same way. Take a look at these four very possible, everyday situations where integrated home automation systems can coordinate lighting, security, communications, networking and other systems in your home to make your life so much easier.

Monitor and Control Everything from Anywhere in Your Home – Or Outside It

With a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, tablet or PDA, you can control and monitor any Wi-Fi connected device from anywhere in your home. Advanced home networking allows you to use your iPad to turn on the oven or lower the thermostats in your home from the backyard, turn on the lights upstairs from the basement or unlock the bathroom door from the kitchen.

Control the AC with the Windows

“We’re not cooling the outdoors!” How often have you heard that when you open a window while the AC is on? With custom audio video and home, building or environment automation, your house can automatically turn off the AC whenever someone opens a window – and turn it back on when they close it again.

Let Your Cleaning Service In – But Only When You Want Them In

Hate the idea of handing over a key to cleaning services and other people who occasionally need access to your home when you’re not there? You can set up your security system to recognize unique security codes – but only during specific times on specific days so you don’t have to worry that someone will sneak back into your house at other times of the day or night.

Boom Boom – Out Go the Lights

Set up specific lighting scenarios and activate them with the same remote control you use for your audio/video system. Turn on task lighting in the kitchen for dinner prep, switch to entertainment lighting for relaxing or shut down the downstairs lights when you head upstairs. It’s not only convenient, it’s energy-saving.

If this sounds like something that would be handy in your house, contact a company that specializes in custom audio video and home, building or environment automation to learn more.