A GUIDE TO HOME AUTOMATION POSSIBILITIES
Below is an insightful Guide to Home Automation. This simple and to easy-to-follow Guide outlines the various areas of your home that can be automated to enhance your lifestyle.
CONTROL4 HOME AUTOMATION IS FLEXIBLE, POWERFUL AND SIMPLE TO USE!
Whether you choose smart lighting, cameras and smart door locks, streaming multi-room music, climate control, a decked-out home theatre, or a simple one-room universal remote entertainment system — Control4 has you covered.
Your Home is Your Castle
Imagine waking up to your favourite playlist, the shades gently rising to let the sun in, temperature adjusting to the perfect level. At work, receive a notification when the kids get home from school. With a simple voice command, dim the lights, queue a movie, and relax with the family after dinner. Tuck the kids in and tap a button to lock the doors,
turn off the lights, and set the alarm before you turn in for the evening. When everything in your smart home works together, life’s better — plain and simple.
Control4 offers smart home solutions that deliver peace of mind, comfort, convenience, and a whole lot of wow. From smart locks, cameras and video door stations, intelligent lighting, and thermostats to universal remotes, stunning home theatre setups, and audio offerings featuring high-resolution music that can stream in every room, Control4 smart living experiences can be personalised for any size home or budget.
Start with a Smart Home OS
A smart home Operating System (OS) is a software platform that connects the many different types of technology in your home together to make devices easily accessible and customizable. The Control4 Smart Home OS enables you and your family to control nearly every device and system in the house in ways that are easy and fun to use.
A Control4 Smart Home OS…
Consolidates your home technology into one interface, syncing your favourite home
technology brands and devices to work together.
Connects you to control your entire home from anywhere and alerts you with custom home notifications.
Runs your home through secure touch screen, remote, keypad, voice, and app access to seamlessly perform the whole-home automation scenes you create.
Making your Home a Smart Home with Control4
When you have a Control4 Smart Home OS installed in your home, the technology integration possibilities become almost endless. After browsing these highlights of what you can do and connect with a Control4 system, talk with a local smart home professional to get even more inspiration for your home.
A Reliable and Seamless Network
Your connection to the internet is one of the most important components in any smart home. Each connected device adds strain to a home network, so it is important to have a network properly built for your home size and network usage. A quality network that is seamless, reliable, and consistently dependable is vital to your smart home.
Flexible Control Options, including your Smart Phone!
Voice Control
Using your favourite voice control assistant, you can control a specific device, a few devices simultaneously, or your entire Control4 Smart Home with just your voice. Effortlessly activate music, turn on or off a single light or multiple fixtures at once, lock doors, or adjust the temperature, all without lifting a finger.
Smart Phone or Tablet
You can use your Smart Phone or Tablet to control your smart home.
Dedicated Touch Screens and Wall Switches
Choose from a range of touchscreens (wall-mounted and freestanding) along with wall switches in a range of colours and styles.
REMOTE ACCESS
Be connected to what matters most, no matter where you are. Remote access to your smart home system keeps you informed and in control of what’s happening at home, whether you’re in the kitchen or across the world.
Stay Connected to Home with:
- Mobile app access and home control of lights, door locks, cameras, thermostat, TVs, audio, and more
- Custom system alerts and push notifications
- Live camera video and two-way audio chat
Receive a Push Notification when:
- Your child arrives home from school
- Someone rings your doorbell
- A door or window is opened during certain hours
- Motion is detected in a room
- Home temperature goes outside of the normal range
- Someone wants to reach you through a home touchscreen video chat
SMART LIGHTING
Smart lighting goes far beyond beautiful switches and dimmable bulbs. It provides energy efficiency, added safety and security, custom lighting scenes, and the ability to control several smart products in your home at once with just the touch of a button.
How does Smart Lighting work?
- Smart lighting consolidates your switches into one keypad by connecting your lights and other smart devices together through the smart home operating system.
- Through smart switches and keypads, your lighting controls can also be programmed to run other devices in the home simultaneously with your smart home OS.
- You need only a few products from Control4 to enjoy smart lighting in your home. You can even start with one room and add more smart lighting over time to your existing system — the choice is yours.
HOME SECURITY
Stay connected to your home anywhere in the world with real-time home notifications, doorbell alerts, mobile home access and control, smart home security, and more. Control4 works with your most trusted security brands to protect you.
With Smart Security, You can:
- Arm/disarm your security system via the mobile app
- Receive alerts when a door is opened
- Set lights to automatically turn on at dusk
- Open and close blinds at scheduled times
- Set up an alert and notify you if movement is detected by a pool or fire pit
- Set up secure two-way conversation using touchscreen panels that ring your mobile app
- Automatically have your home security system arm during the weekdays while you are at work
- Lock or unlock your front door and view your security cameras from one app
VIDEO INTERCOM
Whether you’re home or away, with Control4 Intercom Anywhere remote access, you can monitor, control, and communicate with any room of your smart home.
Very convenient for parcel deliveries and communicating with guests that arrive when you’re not at home.
CLIMATE CONTROL
Schedule your heating and cooling times, and control temperature settings. You can even turn on your heating or cooling remotely before you arrive home! No more arriving home to an uncomfortably cold or hot house!
STREAM VIDEO AND MUSIC THROUGHOUT YOUR HOME
Smart multi-room music and video solutions can connect all your TVs, AV and Music equipment throughout your home and allow quick access to all your content from any room.
Smart Home Video and Music, You can:
- Stream movies, sports and your favourite shows to any TV in any room.
- Play your favourite music in any room, Alfresco area, poolside, and in the garden. Great for relaxing, or when you’re entertaining family and friends.
- Access all your streaming services, playlists, and more within one device.
SMART HOME CINEMA
Control all your Home Cinema equipment with a single device, and enjoy the simplicity of pre-programmed buttons that perform multiple tasks with just one click! You can even control your cinema room’s ambience with just one click that will dim the lights and lower the blinds!
“Finally, an interface that you can depend on and operate with ease! Way beyond my expectations. Simple, user-friendly, and reliable.”