FutureHome provides several automation system choices: Lutron, AMX, Savant, Crestron, and Control 4. Lutron is one of the oldest and most successful automation companies with systems in prestigious homes around the world, Fortune 500 boardrooms, and some of the world’s finest luxury hotels.
Integrated Control
A typical home has many systems. These can include whole house music, intercom, distributed video, networking, security, lighting control, heating and cooling systems, cameras, pool and spa control, gate control, etc. A home automation system ties all of these systems together so you can interface with them from one point of contact. With custom programming, you can automate all kinds of things to make your life simpler and make your home a safer place.
Custom Programming
For example, custom programming can allow events to happen based upon other events. A fire code from the alarm system can cause the home automation system to tell the lighting system to flash your exterior lights so your home is easy for emergency personnel to find. The fun of custom programming comes when you are ready to relax or entertain and pressing one button starts a whole sequence of events. For instance, setting lighting scenes, starting music in the appropriate rooms, and signaling landscape lights to stay on late since you’re having a party.
A complete home automation system includes and communicates with all of the subsystems mentioned above. Any single subsystem can operate independently in a well-designed automation system. By using wireless touch panels, wall mounted touch panels or keypads, including the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, you easily control many systems and functions from one of these flexible devices..
