Benefits

Benefits of Home Automation Whether you want to connect just a few lamps in your living room or network your home’s fans, lights, and window blinds, products with the Digital Home logo let you do it -- your way. Choose the products and systems you want without wondering if they’ll work together or be hard to install. Just look for products with the Digital Home logo: It’s the quick and easy way to know that your purchase will work right out of the box with any other Digital Home product in your network. Home automation products bearing the Digital Home logo work for you. Here's how. Energy It's becoming easier than ever to lower your energy bills, thanks to new products and technology that help you proactively manage appliances and other energy-consuming devices.

Smart appliances and other products will soon be able to react automatically to changing energy-rate information. Instead of running a dishwasher mid-day when electricity rates are higher, a service application will either automatically delay the machine until a lower rate period -- or let you choose when to operate it.

Smart wall modules or sockets can also help reduce energy use. They measure how much energy a single product or a group of products use in your home, and then send the data to a computer for analysis. Wall modules can help you find out how much it costs to run your refrigerator, for example. They can also show you how much energy your television or computer uses in Sleep mode -- information that just might cause you to shut those products off more often.

Lighting

Lighting control is more than "mood lighting." With today’s rising energy prices and aging population, it can also help save energy and improve safety, as well as make your everyday life more convenient.

The beauty of lighting products carrying the Digital Home logo is that you can install them one at a time. You don’t have to commit to an expensive, whole-house solution. With Digital Home products, you can install one or two devices or several thousand. Simply install what you need, when you need it.

Window Blinds

Add window blinds or coverings to an intelligent home network, and then set them to automatically close when certain events occur, such as when you turn on your television or your security system. You can even set blinds to close at a specific time of day.

Appliances

Software and User Interfaces

It's easy to interact with products that carry the Digital Home logo. You can manage them through standard software that runs on televisions, touch-screen displays, telephones, mobile phones, and computers.