Why You Should Automate Your Home

http://www.techtipspro.com/
Home automation is an up-and-coming practice of increased automation of household appliances and features in residential dwellings. This is done mainly through electronic means and allows for things considered unfeasible, too expensive or simply impossible in recent past decades to be carried out. Some people choose to simply automate their home’s lighting. Others may choose to automate everything in their home that can be automated. No matter which way you choose to go, there are some definite benefits from home automation.
Saving energy is major benefit to home automation. Smart home appliances and other products will soon be able to respond automatically to changing energy-rate information. This means that instead of running your dishwasher during mid-day when electricity rates are higher, a service application will automatically postpone running the machine until a time when rates are lower. Overall, automating makes it so that appliances in your house will only run when they are being used, saving energy and money.
Another major benefit to home automation is security. If an intruder tries to breach your home, you can set your security system to set an alarm that will also turn on all the lights and make the front lighting of your home flash. In the event of an emergency like a fire, your home automation system can turn off the air and heating system to keep it from spreading and light a path for you to escape. You can even look in on your house or control the security system from the internet when you are away.
The final (and probably most obvious) benefit of home automation is convenience. Let’s say you have a home theater system in your house. With home automation, you can push one button that will close the window shades, dim the lights, start up the TV and DVD player and even mute the phone so you won’t be disturbed during the movie. Maybe you have a lot of windows in your house and it takes an unnecessary amount of time to cover them all at night. Home automation allows you to motorize your window treatments and close all of them with the push of one button.
Automating your entire home is something that may only be an option if you have a lot of money to work with, but you can always just automate the one or two things in your home that you use the most. Either way, home automation can save you energy, make your home more secure and make doing things around the house a lot more convenient.

Written by guest Richard Moyle