Energy efficiency, shortage and architecture

Building and home automation can deliver huge levels of energy savings, ensuring that your home or building uses resources like water and electricity more effectively, reducing waste from the entire building or home.

In addition to considerably increasing the comfort and safety of a property, building or residence, home automation can help to increase energy resource savings very efficiently, leading to savings of money and resources, especially in the long run. Building or home automation can make a big difference to the environment and, as a result, investors, builders, engineers and residents also save money.

The main ways used in building automation to achieve energy efficiency are:

HVAC – through the use of smart thermostats, it is possible to keep your heating and cooling costs at affordable and desirable levels. This type of device monitors energy usage inside the home as well as controlling outside temperatures, helping to heat or cool your home as efficiently as possible. Through an efficient and automated management of the property’s temperature, making the most of natural resources such as outdoor light and the heat of the sun, a building automation system such as KNX is able to reduce energy consumption constantly and without reducing the comfort for the residents.

Lighting Control – to achieve a desirable level of energy efficiency, it is impossible not to control the lighting system of the property. Lighting controls can be configured through timers, preventing lights from being on all day or all night, for example. Many smart lamps also work with motion sensors, even detecting the presence of people in the place. These lamps respond to people entering and leaving a room, for example, generating great savings in electricity and money.

Power Management – Power management devices include power meters and smart switches. These appliances can turn off lights and appliances, saving energy and reducing costs.