What is smart home automation?

For many years films and documentaries about life in the future have shown us how our homes will be intelligent and look after our every need at the push of a button.

Technology has now reached the stage where this is no longer a fiction but a reality. A modern house can be equipped with the electronics to make almost every aspect of your life at home easier and more enjoyable.

Below is a list of just some of the features that can be integrated in to your home:

- Lighting control
- CCTV and security, with global check up ability
- Climate control and air conditioning
- Computer networks
- In wall whole house vacuum cleaning system
- Automatic blinds and curtains
- Central music and video archives
- Music and video distribution
- Computer networks
- Internet fridges and ovens that automatically order and cook food
- Mobile phone activation of lights, security etc…

Although any of the above features can be installed very effectively in a home on their own, home automation really excels when the different aspects of automation are combined to form a single control platform that operates every feature.

Finite Solutions use AMX control systems to allow us to fully integrate every single aspect of an automated home in to a simple touch screen interface. Typically an automated home would have touch screen panels in the wall of the kitchen, lounge, cinema and master bedroom from where you can browse the internet, choose a DVD or CD, check the temperature in each room and adjust it accordingly or view the garden CCTV cameras.