If you have a programmable thermostat, it will crank up the heat or
the air conditioning at whatever time you set for your return from work
at the end of the day. But what if you?The re going to be late?
If you have a home automation system, you could tap on your
smartphone to adjust the thermostat from wherever you are. You could
also turn on the lights remotely or watch video of the kids getting
home from school.
This is not pie-in-the-sky stuff, nor is it custom technology
entirely out of reach for the average homeowner. All 120 of the houses
New Tradition Homes built last year were wired for automation.
The re getting ready for the home of future, said Naaman Hannu, the construction manager at New Tradition Homes.
You can see a home automation system in action this weekend at
Clark Public Utilities Home and Garden Idea Fair at the Clark County
Event Center at the Fairgrounds, 17402 N.E.s Delfel Road. New Tradition
Homes Energy Smart the model home features a system by Azimuth
Communications. Visitors can enter a drawing for a new iPad, one of the
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New Tradition Homes prepares houses by running cables from the
furnace and the front porch to a master panel in the closet. Then, with
that central nervous system in place, homeowners can decide which
features to add later.
The very scalable, said Steve Winkelman, Communications of the
vice president of Azimuth, based in Tualatin, Ore. The re not investing
a lot of money in something you won T use. You can grow into it.
The technology has evolved quickly. As it has, prices have fallen.
Touch pads once were used to control the system, but that still
required you to get up and push buttons on the wall, in which case you
might as well flip the light switch or turn the knob on your thermostat
anyway.
Now the you can adjust the temperature and lights from anywhere in world, the said of Winkelman.
Smartphones and iPads get the attention, but Winkelman predicts
homeowners may turn to their TVs even more often as the brains of the
house. TVs are usually centrally located, and can be accessed by a
remote control.