Smart home – housing with intelligent technologies
Automation of residential real estate is carried out in order to effectively manage energy resources. “Smart home” is a building intended for people to live in, which integrates intelligent technologies that allow for the interconnected management of all systems existing in the house, from lighting, household appliances and sound to engineering systems. Control is possible even at a considerable distance from the building, using a mobile phone or the Internet, as well as wireless remote controls, experts from the portal about construction companies domobaza.info note.
Today, information technologies make it possible to manage the place where a person lives at a fundamentally new level. Experts believe that this is only the beginning of the concept of “intelligent living environment”. Such innovative methods allow our home to “grow” with new properties that will increase the level of comfort and safety. But there is also such an aspect as the search for new possibilities of automation in order to implement rational management of natural resources to save and protect the natural world around us.
Technologies that increase savings and improve the environmental friendliness of residential buildings are beginning to be used more and more often around the world. These methods include insulation using modern eco-friendly materials, energy-efficient lamps, and recuperators.
Plus, automation of processes occurring in any residential facility makes it possible to save from 10% to 60% of energy resources compared to a similar non-automated facility. The average level of savings in buildings where automatic control systems are used is 31%. This indicator depends on many, so to speak, external factors – features of house construction, energy resources used, lifestyle of the inhabitants of the house, etc.
In a “smart home” you can control everything that is measured. Therefore, when automating an object, it is necessary to have a system that controls and takes into account all resources. Such systems include gas and electricity meters, water meters. Based on the information obtained with the help of meters, you can conduct an audit and determine which resources were used least efficiently. In addition, having measured these indicators, you can install a special alarm that will notify you when the resource limit planned by you is exhausted, or when you forgot to turn off the water tap, etc.
The “smart home” system uses many sensors that are responsible for measuring the temperature in the house and outside, measuring the illumination of the premises, wind strength, soil moisture, etc. There are also sensors for opening windows, carbon dioxide emissions, water leaks, and others.
Technologies for automating real estate objects are created, first of all, to save resources. And accordingly – your money. They also allow you to create the most comfortable conditions for human life, which is why people living in such houses have fewer health problems and can rest better.
Among the main principles of saving energy resources are the following:
– use resources only when they are really needed;
– use energy exactly in the amount that is really needed;
– use all possible natural resources most efficiently.
In order to explain as clearly as possible why it is necessary to use such technologies during housing construction, we will give the following example. When air conditioners are working, opening windows is prohibited. But often you yourself can forget that the window is open or that the air conditioner is working, say experts from the design and construction portal Domobaza. In the “smart home” system, this is simply impossible, since when a window is opened, sensors react, thanks to which all systems react properly, and the air conditioner turns off.
Well, the sensors that are quite common in our country are light sensors. For example, the light above the front door is turned on when a person passes by. But at dusk, for example, much less of this lighting is needed, because there is also natural light. In this case, the “smart home” will be able to control that artificial light is used exactly as much as is necessary at the moment.