Energy Efficiency
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          Pains & drivers

           
          Pains & drivers

          While comfort and safety are probably the most important selection criteria in homes, energy efficiency and the ability to reduce the "environmental footprint" of the house are becoming increasingly relevant.

          Average breakdown of home energy consumption :
          • Heating & Cooling: 60%
          • Lighting: 14%
          • Electrical applicances: 14%
          • Hot water sanitary: 12%
           

          How can a customer manage energy more efficiently?


          Energy savings can be achieved through automating different functions of everyday life:
          • Lighting control : turning off unnecessary lights, sensing when nobody is in a room through presence detector, dimming light intensity according to outdoor lighting conditions, scheduling outdoor lighting according to predefined patterns, ...
          • Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning control: setting optimal temperatures for the different rooms of the house, Predefining heating/AC patterns in advance according to regular needs, remotely controlling heating/AC, ...
          • Etc.

          Other features can also improve energy efficiency:
          • Alarm handling
          • Preventive protection
          • Remote control
          • Multimedia control
          • Etc.
           

          Solutions or architectures used in the application


          Home automation solutions are focused on the specific automation requirements of private homes and on the comfort and security of its residents. Usually, there are three main system architectures classified according to where the intelligence of the system resides:

          • Centralised Architecture : a centralised controller receives information from multiple sensors and, once processed, generates the opportune orders for the actuators.

          • Distributed Architecture : all the intelligence of the system is distributed by all the modules that are sensors or actuators. Usually it is typical of bus wiring systems.

          • Mixed Architecture : systems with decentralised architecture in that they have several small devices able to acquire and to process the information from multiple sensors and to transmit this information to the rest of the devices distributed by the house.
           
           
           
           
           

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