Technology Simplified
Smart Home Compendium
SMART HOME COMPENDIUM
A smart home with Bespoke Future Homes simplifies life in a new build or renovated home. It minimises the need to manually control your house and save you up to multiple tasks a year. This gives you more time for the important things in life.
Why hire our experts?
Employing an independent lighting expert may seem like an odd choice for homeowners that have relied on electrical engineers and interior designers to take care of their lighting needs in the past. But when you make lighting a secondary job for others, it becomes an afterthought in your home. An experts masters technical, scientific and stylistic fields to deliver bespoke solutions for their clients.
Whats is a smart home with Bespoke Future Homes?
The home, built to provide people with a safe place to relax, sleep and entertain, has undergone significant change in recent centuries. A typical 21st century house has lots of devices and appliances which, when used properly, can make life easier for its occupants, maximising their comfort and minimising their energy consumption. If these devices and appliances are too demanding, however, it quickly makes the occupants want to return to the “good old days”.
Features of a modern home
- Access, security & safety
- Energy management
- Lighting
- Multimedia
- Shading
- Temperature Control
Loxone Miniserver
All of these features together can be regarded as an orchestra. An orchestra only performs well when it works in harmony. An orchestra also has a conductor, who is mainly responsible for the quality of the music.
In a smart home, the conductor is the Loxone Miniserver. It turns the individual features and components into one overall unit that is harmoniously coordinated. As far as possible, every component and system within the home should perform its duties automatically, without manual intervention. When completed, this orchestra is conducted by the Miniserver and is called: a Real Smart Home.
A Real Smart Home is not a random collection of gimmicks. A product’s ability to be controlled via a smartphone does not make it a smart home, or even a smart home component. Many products on the market lack the ability to be integrated. This ability to be integrated, or to be guided by a conductor in order to offer greater functionality to the homeowner, is the basis for a truly smart home.
Features of a smart home
The features of a Bespoke Future Smart Home can be fully or partially used. Some features may be more or less appropriate for your home, depending on where in the world you are located.
Lighting
Fortunately, lighting has evolved from the original tungsten filament. However, its development has been mixed, with some lighting inventions that could not be used in private homes until today’s modern LED technology. Halogen bulbs and fluorescent lamps are a thing of the past.
Lighting is important – it can illuminate our living space, help us to work and even create special moods. Lighting in all its forms and natural occurrences significantly affects our emotions and our mood. Coloured lighting can boost creativity and provide positive energy.
Probably the most effective lighting is that which best mimics sunlight. Even if artificial lighting can never quite replicate the light spectrum of the sun, it does offer many possibilities.
In this regard, the humble lightbulb has set the bar very high. When choosing lighting for your home, remember that it’s not just about how a light looks, but also the quality of light it emits. The CRI (Colour Rendering Index) should be as high as possible. For this reason, Loxone LED products have always focused on warm white light with a very high, affordable CRI.
Access Control
Simple and secure access control
An access solution should be as easy as possible for authorised users and as obstructive as possible for those trying to gain unauthorised entry. Several types of access control are now available, and almost anything is possible, from biometric, to code-based systems.
A Real Smart Home combines two types of access: a keyless system, where the building can be entered via a PIN code, and access via a NFC Key Fob. In addition, a Real Smart Home can be used to assign different permissions for family, friends, tradespeople etc. Time-limited PIN codes are also part of the functional scope of a Real Smart Home.
The front door - always in view
In a smart home, it should always be possible to keep an eye on what is happening outside your front door at anytime and from anywhere. A fully integrated video intercom system helps fulfil this need. This allows instant notifications when someone rings the doorbell. You can then see and speak with whoever is at the door if you would like to do so.
Room Climate
Heat can originate from various sources, be that heat pumps, fossil fuels or biomass energy – the range is now more varied than ever. The problem is that most heat sources can be only partially controlled. Furthermore, many heat sources are still reliant on the outside temperature to dictate when to heat the home or not.
This method is concerning; modern houses are essentially thermally cut off from their environment. Insulation and blinds, as well as reductions in energy consumption, lead to more self-sufficient, less environmentally-dependent domestic operation. Heating systems that control the supply of heat according to the outside temperature are unsuitable for a modern house and cannot be described as smart.
It is important to be able to control the heat source in order to optimally control energy levels at any time of the year, day and night. Often, there are days in winter when snow blankets the ground, yet the sun is shining brightly, and the room warms up, so there’s no need to have the heating on. Other times, when the weather is damp and gloomy, the outside temperature may be higher, yet the heating is needed.
The outside temperature should play a minor role in controlling the supply of heat. We should no longer be investing in heat sources that cannot be controlled. The easiest way to control a heat source is to adjust the flow temperature of individual heating circuits. Temperatures can be adjusted using valves. The room requiring the most heat determines the flow temperature.
Installation Process
IN-HOME CONSULTATION
With our extensive experience providing smart technology and integrated systems we can provide thoughtful discussion and valuable insight.
SYSTEM DESIGN & ENGINEERING
INSTALLATION
PROGRAMMING
SERVICE & MAINTENANCE
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SMART HOMES
LIGHTING
SHADING
AUDIO
ROOM CLIMATE
ACCESS
Craft a Beautiful Space with Home Automation
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Free & friendly advice
Chat to one of our experts and they can share ideas with you of what is possible – specific to your renovation extension or new build.
Installation & Integration
An Integration Representative will help you identify your smart home goals so the system is designed to best fit in your lifestyle.
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