Smart home energy technology

Features & functionality

Energy impacts

Sensors

Motion sensors

-Real time detection of occupied areas

-Consume energy only in occupied locations

Light sensors

-Real time detection of light level

-Enable daylight harvesting

-Enable dimming in function of daylight

Light actuators

Bulbs

-Scheduling, adapt with occupancy and/or daylight

-Remotely controllable

-Light level & color control

-Replacement of traditional bulb with LEDs

-Smart and rules based control

-Dimming, daylight harvesting

Switches

-Scheduling, adapt with occupancy and/or daylight

-Remotely controllable

-Smarter management of bulbs

-Feedbacks

-Possibility of controlling multiple bulbs

-Dimming, daylight harvesting

Hubs

-Enable/manage interactions between devices

-Remotely control multiple devices

-Talk different protocols

-Rule based control

-Different ways of interactions (e.g. vocal)

-Trigger-based control in function of real-time data received from other sources

-Scheduling feature across connected devices