What makes a building comfortable?
If it is warm during winter and pleasantly cool in summer. If it's dark outside, the light inside. There's no wind inside, but the air is still fresh. In the morning, the blinds stay down because the sun shines too bright. The alarm works when I leave and the garden sprinkler goes off at night. Most buildings now have these. But there are also levels of comfort.
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Heating and cooling are basically automatically controlled, but sometimes you have to change the setting if the wind blows harder outside. You can also adjust the lights, but it's a lot of daily action, turning them on and off and paying attention. The blinds timing can also be automatic, but if it's cloudy, we pull the shade up so that our plants still get light.
In fact, we act as the brains of the building, we analyse information and give instructions. What if an automatic system took over from us and we could just enjoy being inside?
Everything is switchable, adjustable. Lighting, heating, blinds. We have many devices for this, some of which can be programmed by time. Typically, the system either does not pay attention to the environment or only to a limited extent. The thermostat and the motion sensor process only one piece of information each, the garden sprinkler does none, so it will water even if it rains.
Here, more sensors are installed, providing each automatic system with information and more control to the limit of its own programming. The boiler monitors the internal and external temperatures. The motion sensor can also monitor the sun. The shutter opens or closes depending on the type of control in case of a storm. Everything works fine in island operation. But the shutter will lock you out of the house on a breeze because the door opening sensor is only controlled by the alarm system.
The medium level is a multitude of systems working in island operation mode. But if you tie all the sensors and actuators into one unit, you can control the system much more precisely, making it really comfortable. The presence detector not only controls the lighting, but is also part of the alarm system. The shutter not only operates on a time schedule, but also behaves differently when I am at home. The weather station outside also takes care of the shutter, but it also intervenes to the irrigation. Here the investment cost is already reduced compared to the previous stages.
So far, we've taken the human - you - out of the system so that the building automation can do as much as possible without you. But at this level, we put you back in the picture at the top level of the system. Constant and regularly recurring things can be programmed, but individual events less. We ensure you have control on how it works at any time and from anywhere. All this in a very flexible way, so that it remains an option, not a task.
The Loxone system can achieve the Expert level, but in terms of cost-effectiveness, it performs much better than the competition!
