A Day in the Life
Smart Home technology will change the way you live – forever. By dramatically reducing your input to daily routine and energy consumption, home automation takes care of the basics and provides a new template for lifestyle that is convenient, comfortable, efficient, safe and fun.
Here’s how a typical day might pan out:
- 6am The morning sequence begins with a steady rise in temperature of your bathroom under-floor heating system – just by 2 degrees so that it’s cozy and welcoming.
- 6.20am Bedside lighting begins to glow very gently and over the next 25 minutes becomes slowly brighter.
- 6.45am Window blinds rise to reveal what today’s weather has in store – at the same time, your favourite TV show, CD or radio station begins to play at ambient volume.
- 7am Whilst you’re taking a shower, the coffee machine kicks into action and invites you to do the same – latte or espresso?
- 7.30am As the electricals and heating switch off in the master bedroom suite – triggered when you leave the room – global news and sport on the kitchen wall-mounted plasma complements (or spoils) your breakfast.
- 8am By activating ‘daytime mode’ on the panel by your internal garage door, a sequence initiates the opening of your carport and driveway entrance gates, activation of CCTV security and alarming of your property.
- 9.15am You receive a text message advising that motion sensors on the outside of your house detect something – by logging in to the system from your PC, you see cats fighting in the garden. An uninvited distraction but you’re grateful it wasn’t something more unwelcome.
- 11am The sun is beating down and it appears today will be a hot one – you pre-empt a stifling welcome home by adjusting the ground-floor photovoltaic glass, drawing the blinds upstairs and switching on the air conditioning from your phone.
- 4.10pm Given how hot it is, you decide that a barbeque is in order. Whilst your smart home can’t buy and cook food for you, it can decrease the temperature of your wine cooler by a few degrees to ensure that at least the beverages are perfect.
- 5.15pm Having visited the supermarket, you drive up to your gates and deactivate ‘daytime mode’. This morning’s process is reversed, the carport opens up once more and the internal door is also unlocked for your safe passage into a wonderfully cool downstairs living area.
- 7pm After unwinding with a quick shower, you’re getting changed when the doorbell rings – after consulting with the video entry system via a TV in your bedroom, it’s a pleasure to see welcome visitors well stocked with food and drink.
- 7.25pm Showered and ready to relax, you pre-select a programme of music for the evening and transmit it to all speakers on the ground floor including those positioned on the patio.
- 7.35pm Glass of extra-chilled Sancerre in hand, you perform a brief demonstration of Smart Home technology at work by remotely adjusting the outdoor lighting system and water features to match the mood of the evening. It is upbeat - the barbeque is in action.
- 9.30pm With guests assembled in the living room, one button transforms the space into a home cinema by dimming lights, drawing blinds, setting speakers to surround sound and initiating the video data storage system.
- 11.55pm As the last of your guests retires for the night and you too head for bed, you activate ‘night-time mode’ on the wall-mounted panel by your bed. Over the next 10 minutes, security is checked, home entertainment sources are powered down and all lights dim slowly to off apart from floor-level lighting illuminating the stairs and landings.
