Dynamic lighting - awesomeness

Path Illumination – When getting up at night to use the bathroom or to get a drink, sometimes it's difficult to see where I’m going or find the doorknob.  With the help of a motion detector and a little programming, a hallway light dimmed to 25% illuminates my path.  Both the hallway lighting and the bathroom lighting do not blind me (and consequently wake me up) but instead, give me just enough light to maneuver to my destination and back without the need to fumble for light switches or door knobs.
Another popular lighting function is triggering the mud room and the kitchen lights to turn on when the garage door is opened.  This is especially handy when arriving home from the grocery store; now there’s no need to fumble for light switches as you attempt to carry things from the garage into your home.
Outdoor lighting - Having the lights actually react to the astronomical clock is very beneficial in that there is no resetting timers or worrying about daylight savings time. Our system allows for the lighting to respond to the sunrise or sunset and adjusts itself.
Security - Clients who opt to have their homes fully automated and integrated can also tie the lighting control system to the security. If the alarm system is triggered at night or while you are away the entire house can be lit up inside. The program can also make the outdoor lights flash, which will make your home more obvious to the approaching police or fire vehicles. You can also have the lights turned on remotely before you arrive with the use of a wireless key fob; simply get in range(approximately 300ft) of the home and press the lighting button to activate your welcome home scene before you arrive. This makes homeowners feel very secure.

Smart Energy Management

The Future of Smart Energy Management Arrives with SilverSTAT 7 by SilverPAC, Fusing Together HVAC Control, Efficiency and Style

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- SilverPAC, a leading provider of innovative home entertainment solutions, announces the preview of their new SilverSTAT 7, advanced seven-day programmable thermostat. The company partnered with Windows Embedded to develop a truly innovative device that features a Smart Energy In-Home Display (IHD) to help monitor utility usage and expenses in style. SilverPAC has long been dedicated to the future of consumer electronics with its visionary universal remote controls and advanced digital picture frame. It continues to extend its reach by introducing the breakthrough SilverSTAT 7 with its commitment to smarter homes and smarter living.
The SilverPAC SilverSTAT 7 is embedded on Windows® CE 6.0 R3 and Intel (News - Alert)® Atom™ platform and aims to replace standard household thermostats with an advanced home climate control system. The device is elegantly designed with its seven-inch touch screen display that is able to illustrate the distribution of household energy down to individual appliances.

With its IEEE (News - Alert) 802.15.4 wireless interface, the SilverSTAT 7 will speak to the new smart meters that will have the ability to send information on real-time electricity and gas use in households directly to utility companies. This process eliminates the inconvenience of meter readings and the inefficiencies of controversial estimates.

SilverPAC seeks to provide an answer to this dilemma by helping to implement ‘demand response monitoring' systems with its SilverSTAT 7. The concept involves encouraging reductions in peak energy demand by providing customers with an instantaneous view of their ongoing energy usage and utility pricing on their networked IHD. Energy and budget savings can be achieved by turning off or rescheduling the use of appliances for a more cost efficient time.

The device has an 802.11 Wi-Fi interface that allows it to successfully communicate with a home network and Internet services, a Z-Wave Home Automation interface and Zigbee protocol for lighting and appliance control. Zigbee is among the list of communication protocol the US Congress has recently approved for devices supporting new Smart Energy grid system.

In a press release from the US Department of Energy, Gary Locke, US Secretary of Commerce, said, "President Obama has made a smart electrical grid a key element of his plan to lower energy costs for consumers, achieve energy independence and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Today, we took a significant step toward developing the open and transparent interoperability standards necessary to realize the Smart Grid vision." The SilverSTAT 7 is more than a seven-day programmable thermostat. It has the added benefit of useful smart gadgets to enhance the convenience of daily tasks with the attractive feature of streaming photos, music and content direct from Live.com and the PC. It even has the simplicity of time management with a calendar and scheduled alarm notices. Through Windows technology, users can control their digital universe with access to e-mail, stock prices, real-time weather forecasting, billing and price schedules for energy providers and more! SilverPAC is energized with the opportunity to help consumers manage their green energy with the SilverSTAT 7 - Smart Climate, Smart Energy, and Smart Living! The SilverPAC SilverSTAT 7 will be officially released in June 2010

Home automation - the feature is coming.

As the world gets more and more technologically advanced, we find new technology coming in deeper and deeper into our personal lives even at home. Home automation is becoming more and more popular around the world and is becoming a common practice.

The process of home automation works by making everything in the house automatically controlled using technology to control and do the jobs that we would normally do manually. Best example is how poker and casino players from around the world are now capable of enjoying the same game's and reaping their benefits from the comfort of their home while sitting at their computers. It is much easier to install home automation in a house while it is still being built, since you have the ability to put things inside the walls to save space. Though, people who have houses already built can still have home automation done in a less intrusive way through wireless systems.

Home automation takes care of a lot of different activities in the house. Some of these things are as simple as turning on the sprinklers at a certain time every day and detecting burglars in the middle of the night. Others are much more advanced like sensing the presence of the person in a room and adjusting light ambiance, the temperature in the room, the volume of the music, according to different factors like the day of the week and the time.

Do these things sound good to you? Well you can easily have your home automated by having a home automation company come and wire your house. This can sometimes be expensive but you will definitely love the different perks of having an automated house. You can even decide to tweak some of the programs on your own if you’re savvy.

The word home automation can be termed as the usage of house hold appliances. This includes house hold appliances and also the building automation. House hold appliances mainly concentrate on kitchen based appliances. The appliance which carries more impetus on house hold appliance could be the automatic mixie. Most of the ladies are mainly depend on this equipment. As this makes the kitchen activity very easy and also time saving nature.

While going for other related house hold appliance the modern kitchen carries modern smoker. This excavates the kitchen smoke out of the building range, rather than to encircle the smoke inside the kitchen itself. Recently a fuel saving stove has been introduced that is called as the Ignition stove. It works on current only but it never needs fuel such as liquefied petroleum gas, kerosene, etc.,

Another kitchen ware which adores the whole house could be termed as four burners stove. It slows down the cooking time at the same time we can cook several varieties of recipe. Delicious variety of food could be inculcated by using microwave oven. It bakes and keeps hot the need food items. Time could be set for heating any sauce like materials, so that we need worry on mishappenings while cooking in process. Another important home automation could be given more stress on the word refrigeration.

As we want to keep any food items or any liquid items in cooler manner it has to be refrigerated. It needs the help refrigerator of different models and different capacity. This has emerged as single door or of double door refrigerator. Consumers select different company according to their need and interest. The building automation things also come into existence while we discuss on home automation. Overall a house has to be well equipped with various types of house hold appliance and building automation such as flooring tiles, bathroom tiles, kitchen tiles and this includes all interior decorative materials for a fascinating house to dwell.