Control4 Home Automation

The future is here now!

A new age in home automation is upon us. Internet-based products like Control4 are now bringing affordable, easily managed home automation solutions to every home.

Control4 is a complete home automation systems that allow easy maintenance to new wireless products that allow you to control as much or as little of your house as you need. Using a remote control or Ipad, you can control all your:

Home Electronics
Lights
Thermostats
Surveillance Cameras
and more

How Home Automation Works:

Home automation systems like Crestron or Vantage require you to completely re-wire your home. Every keypad, light switch and thermostat has to be directly wired to the "brains" of the system. In many cases, it would cost you $80,000-$100,000 to put in a complete system. All of the equipment is proprietary so you are stuck buying all the automation equipment from one company, no matter the cost. Maintenance of these systems is also very high.

As a solution, companies have come up with two new wireless standards called Zigbee and Z-Wave. These are open standards that any company can build products that can talk to other products. For example, if a home automation manufacturer builds a Zigbee-compliant light switch, any other company can build another product that talks to or controls that product.

Over the last 2-3 years, a number of companies have developed these products along with control systems. One we like is called Control4 (www.control4.com). Control4 manages all the home A/V equipment like any other universal remote. It also allows you to control lights, thermostats, music, videos and even surveillance cameras.

Here are just some of the practical home automation applications:

Turn your TV on at night and all the lights in the room dim automatically
Turn off all of the lights in your home from one button in your bedroom
Use your TV as a giant iPod to access all your music (including Rhapsody)
Turn the house lights and music on when you enter the driveway
Press a panic button and all the lights in your home flash except the exit path for your family
View your home over the Internet and adjust the thermostat when you are away or coming home
Load all your videos and have access with the touch of a button
View when a contractor arrives from your remote office and let him in using an electronic lock

These are just a small sampling of what can be done through installing a home automation system.

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Control4 Home Automation

The future is here now!

How Home Automation Works:

Here are just some of the practical home automation applications:

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