The use of home automation and energy efficiency in homes.
The energy consumption of Spanish families already accounts for 30% of the total energy consumption in our country, almost equally divided between the private car and the home (18% corresponds to domestic consumption). Each home produces up to 5 tons of CO2 per year.
We know that Spain imports 75% of the primary energy it consumes, compared to the EU average of 50%. Reducing this consumption would reduce Spain's energy dependence on foreign countries.
Family structures and living habits are clearly changing. Teleworking, on-line courses and remote meetings are becoming increasingly common and we are spending more and more time at home. In addition, life expectancy has increased and the aging of the population is on the rise, which also directly affects a greater occupation of the home and consequent increase in consumption.
The answer to all these social changes and new living trends lies largely in what home automation can bring us. Home automation has a great impact on the energy performance of homes in terms of its possibilities for intelligent management and optimization, but also, more broadly, it is an extraordinary advance in terms of quality of life due to its possibilities for automating services and devices within our homes.
In recent years, home automation has evolved by leaps and bounds and now offers a more consolidated and accessible offer.
The solutions offered by home automation adapt to any type of home and every day offers more variety and more features for less money. In addition, thanks to its evolution, the devices and systems used are increasingly easier to install on the one hand and to use on the other.
In short, the offer is better and of higher quality, and its use is now more intuitive and perfectly manageable for any user profile. At the same time, installers are much better prepared than before, as they are constantly being trained, and the after-sales service of the various services guarantees reliable and stable maintenance for all installations and systems.
Home automation makes the distribution of the house easier and allows you to change the environmental conditions of a house creating different scenarios where you can program in advance, have a much more functional home and thus get to have all the comforts at your fingertips, helping us to make the most of the time we spend at home.
With home automation we can control and automate all the intelligent management of the different services of a home, such as lighting, heating, air conditioning, garden irrigation, alarm, blinds, awnings, etc..
With just using a small device, computer, cell phone or remote control we can control our entire home automation system from anywhere both inside and outside the home and can program various types of environments according to the needs of each person.
For example, we can assign a different temperature to each room or we can program the washing machine, dishwasher or any other appliance to start working at a certain time, efficiently managing energy savings and achieving savings in water and electricity consumption, making better use of natural resources by using the lowest cost hourly rates, and thus reducing your energy bill while gaining in comfort and safety.
Energy efficiency through home automation.
Saving water, electricity and fuel thanks to home automation.
To save water, home automation already has leakage control systems (in the event of flooding, they give a warning signal and cause the supply to be cut off), as well as intelligent irrigation control with a humidity sensor. There are even intelligent faucets that manage water flow and temperature.
In terms of electricity, there are several ways to save, such as lighting, air conditioning and the use of electrical appliances. There are efficient lighting systems that regulate the level for each hour of the day, even with automatic switching on and off when people are detected. We can take advantage of this efficiency thanks to the use of LEDs.
Lamps and all appliances with LED technology consume 90-30% less energy than traditional lighting systems.
We can also put an automatic control of blinds and awnings to take advantage of natural light or avoid overheating of rooms by the entry of direct sunlight and thus not having to lower the temperature with air conditioning.
On the subject of air conditioning there are systems for the regulation of temperature, which adapts it according to the change of the outside temperature, the area of the house, the time of day and if there are people or not.