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Home Automation: Good for your home, good for the environment

Home Automation: Good for your home, good for the environment

 

There are a lot of good reasons to bring your home into the 21st Century and start enjoying the benefits of home automation systems — convenience is a big one, and our customers find the high level of control such systems bring quite satisfying on many levels. But you might be surprised how much home automation can help with the “greening” of your lifestyle — even if you don’t consider yourself an environmentalist at heart.

Home automation systems can customize the user experience within the home to personal habits and preferences, such as particular lighting or music that “follows” homeowners and guests from room to room as the sensors detect their movement. But, especially in larger homes with multiple zones, that customization can reap huge benefits in using less energy to run the home.

Imagine a home automation system that understands patterns in room use to such an extent that a room that’s rarely entered is kept shuttered and heated (or cooled) less. Or a system that recognizes the wife gets home first, and typically confines her activities to one or two rooms in the first part of the evening — so those rooms are brought to the appropriate climate only just before her arrival. When the husband gets home, the areas he typically inhabits get the attention of the automated system. And on weekends, when things change, the system changes along with it, tweaking energy use in different rooms and zones to heat and cool where needed, and to save energy where it’s not.

Couple that with systems that will lower blinds and close windows to trap the night’s cool air automatically in the summer, then raise the blinds and re-open the windows at night to bring fresh air in — then doing the reverse in winter, opening the blinds to get the maximum solar gain at just the right times of day.

Home automation offers the possibility of spectacularly efficient energy use, controlled centrally and customizable to fit every sort of household pattern — whether you’re interested in helping the environment, or just your pocketbook at utility bill time.

Seagull Electronics sells the right electronics. We don’t sell the stuff you’ll find in boxes at your local shopping mall. We design custom systems using some of the world’s best electronic components. Serving Tequesta, Juno Beach, Jupiter, Jupiter Island, Palm Beach Gardens, North Palm Beach, Singer Island, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and North Miami.

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