Technology has become an integral part of the existence of society. Over the past two to three decades, they have made a huge step forward and changed the habits, needs of a person, as well as his communications and lifestyle. Today, without gadgets, smart devices, and digital services, it is almost impossible to work and relax. Smart solutions have entered private life not only as a set of individual components and devices, but also as a complete integrated system that helps to create an ideal comfortable and individual living environment – a smart home.
A smart home is an extensive engineering and technical system designed by professionals for a specific customer at the construction or renovation stage. Anyone can independently install several sensors, controllable lamps, and smart speakers in an apartment, but a professional automated solution, which can truly be called a Smart Home, is developed, installed, and configured by automation engineers.

SMART HOME SYSTEMS INCLUDE (FUNCTIONAL):
– lighting
– curtains and blinds
– climate control (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, humidification, CO2 control, floor heating, radiators)
– security (access control, video surveillance, intercom, security alarm, protection against leaks, smoke, gas leak detection)
– multiroom
– electrical systems
– home theater (audio and video)
– visualization of control systems
– dispatching of engineering systems

ADVANTAGES OF A SMART HOME FOR USERS:

1 – Convenience and comfort
Wide range of control options for lighting, temperature, air conditioning, security systems, entertainment devices and other systems in the home using voice commands, a PC, a remote control, or a mobile app makes life more convenient and comfortable.

2 – Energy saving
Smart home systems allow you to optimize energy use. For example, automatically turning off lights and adjusting temperatures based on schedules, occupancy, or pre-programmed scenarios helps to ensure efficient use of resources and energy costs.

3 – Security
A high level of security is ensured with the help of Smart Home systems, thanks to the presence of video surveillance systems, smart locks, intercom, warning systems for gas or water leaks, fire, and alarm signals. It is also convenient to receive timely notifications about events in your home.

4 – Management and control
The ability to control your home from any place in the world makes life easier. Using a mobile application or web interface, you can control and configure various systems and devices in your home, whether at work or in another country.

5 – Individual solutions
The Smart Home system allows you to create scenarios and program automatic operating modes for various devices and systems. For example, you can set the lights to automatically turn on when you enter the house, the curtains to lower when you turn on a movie, automatic watering, and humidity levels in the winter garden according to a schedule, or music to follow you while you move between rooms or floors.

6 – Added value of real estate
The presence of a Smart Home system makes a living space more attractive to a potential buyer or tenant and helps to increase the value of the property.

You can often hear the concerns that Smart Home is complicated and that only tech-savvy users can cope with it. The Smart Home system provides extensive control options: using a PC, smartphone, tablet, smart watch, voice commands, special panels (push-button or touch), as well as conventional switches. You should not be afraid that older people or service representatives may have difficulty using the system, because each system is developed for a specific user, and therefore will be designed to be as understandable and simple as possible.

Perhaps the main advantages of a professional smart home system are flexibility and individuality of solutions. Unlike ready-made systems with standard functionality sold in stores, professional automated systems for the home prefer to create conditions that take into account unique features and are of interest to the customer: the presence of light phenomena and colored dynamic lighting is important for some people, for others – sound is important, some people are crazy about a greenhouse or an art gallery and need to maintain certain conditions of humidity, temperature and lighting, while others want to be sure that everything in the house is turned off and under control.
Therefore, first, it is important to understand the client’s habits, study his lifestyle, preferences, and features of exactly what he wants to get from his Smart Home.

If you are planning to order a Smart Home project, it is important to know what it must contain in order to implement it successfully.

Stages of designing a Smart Home system:

1 – Concept
At this stage, the basic requirements for implementation are described based on the client’s wishes and functional tasks, technical solutions, equipment, its placement are selected, and a preliminary budget estimate is formed.

2 – Planning and detailed design documentation
Technical documentation is developed based on the concept, and contains network diagrams and plans, equipment placement, load calculations, connections, as well as detailed specifications of products and materials.

Equipment is purchased based on developed documentation, and then installation and commissioning / programming of the system is carried out.

Automation experts help you to create a flexible, customized solution that can be expanded and upgraded later. Only professional companies can assemble different components/elements into a single, well-functioning system, configure and program the desired scenarios, perform service or reconfigure it at the customer’s request, and provide a full guarantee of performance.