What is home automation?

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Residential automation is all about adding comfort, convenience, security, and energy savings to your lifestyle.

It is the remote and automatic control of your home's systems such as:

• Lighting
• Appliances
• Heating and air conditioning
• Entertainment components
• Security system
• Communications
• Irrigation system
• Pool and spa
• All other home systems

These systems become easier to use, and any level of automation can be installed.

Automation is about making your home work for you, saving you time, and simplifying your life.

It can be as simple as automatic control of outside security lights that come on at dusk and shut off at dawn.

Or your home's exterior and interior lights, and even your music, can all come on for you when you signal your garage door to open, so you don't ever have to enter a dark house again.

Or it can be as sophisticated as having all of the systems in your entire home automatically controlled according to time of day, day of week, or personal presence in a room, and with voice control, too.

Remote and automatic lighting control, heating and air conditioning control, and drapery control are very popular tools for realizing significant energy savings as well as convenience. And of course security is also an important part of automating your home.