Case Study: spectacular Dorset property gets The Loxone smart home treatment
When we saw this spectacular Loxone powered home (installed by Amica) we just had to share it. located in Ferndown, east Dorset, the property was rebuilt from the ground up last year. Over to Loxone for the full story…
Ferndown
The grandeur of the home is immediately obvious as you turn off the road into the gravelled drive. walk into the double volume entrance hall and you’ll be welcomed by an interior that has been beautifully decorated. It was essential both for the architect and the homeowner that the interior was not overshadowed by the smart home technology, and rightly so.
In fact, looking around the home you would be forgiven for not immediately noticing that this is a smart home because of the lack of common big control panels and banks of switches. As this is a great example of a real smart Home, you’ll start to notice that the intelligence is actually behind the scenes; with Loxone taking care of the lighting, heating, safety and security and access control without the homeowner or their guests needing to do anything.
When it concerned building their dream home, the family had two requirements of the home automation; future-proof cabling and a service that would centralise the main aspects of the home, such as the lighting and heating.
It was essential that this method to automation was already at the fore when the family started working with their architect; Chewton Bespoke Homes. The architect works with Loxone Gold Partner, Amica, to take care of the smart home planning on some of their builds. The family appreciated how having smart home experts on-hand implied they could already envisage throughout the planning stages what lighting and other functionality they would have on a room by room basis.
Another essential consideration for this family was the ability to control all of the lights in the house and have an summary of what was on, no matter whether they are at home or on holiday.
The family have had some time to work out in so we caught up with them and Ben from Amica to find out about some of their preferred functions and their experience of ensuring their dream home was a smart home…
The Day Space
The main smart home feature in this home is apparent in the large day space area – an immense open plan area on the ground floor, leading off the entrance hall through double doors ahead of you. There you’ll find the entertaining heart of the home. A beautifully organized seating area with a side-by-side fireplace and flat screen TV adorning a feature wall; a 12-seater dining table and drinks sideboard; flanked by a double volume kitchen with solid clean lines, and a robust island with three modern metallic cut-out patterned pendant lights hanging above.
This day space area has natural light aplenty thanks to an range of windows, skylights and two double glass doors opening up onto a wrap-around patio and immaculate lawn.
All things bright and Beautiful
Lighting was the main aspect of the home that the family wanted to be intelligently automated, as well as to be able to control remotely. With Loxone, this is exactly what Amica have delivered.
Throughout the home, lights turn on and off automatically, implying the family doesn’t ever need to worry if they leave a light on. When the family gets home from work or school, the lights start to come on automatically based on the time of day and the light level in the room. If the room has enough natural sunlight then the lights don’t even need to come on at all. This is great for parts of the home such as the day space, where natural light can flood in on a sunny day. Of course, after dusk or if it is an overcast day, then the lights will turn on with motion to guarantee the room is adequately lit.
The lady of the house is particularly amazed with the ability to see, at a glance, which lights are on in the house using the Loxone smart home app – wherever in the world she may be.
With Loxone, each room has various lighting moods to suit different occasions, making use of different light levels, circuits and potentially colours. In the day space, there is an entertaining lighting mood which can be set with a tap on one of the Touch switches located around the room.
“Being able to tap a few times on the switch and select a lighting mood that suits the environment is always a winner. When we are entertaining guests we can tap the switch a few times and set the lights to a beautiful entertaining mood which tends to go down well with our guests! They are shocked and impressed at how easily the system can be controlled and how numerous different lights can be combined to create so numerous different atmospheres.”
The smart lighting in this home also adjusts the level of light based on time. For example, when it’s 3am and someone needs to use the restroom or a trip to the kitchen, the lights turn on at an appeasingly low level or only one lighting circuitZapne sa tak, že existuje len dosť svetla na to, aby sa nachádzal okolo seba, ale nie toľko, aby ich oslnili alebo zobudili niekoho iného.
Veci sa zahrievajú
Spôsob, akým interagujeme s našimi domami, sa pri živote s domácou automatizáciou mení k lepšiemu. Existuje také početné úlohy, že sa o nás stará loxónový systém. V tomto inteligentnom dome, jednou z konkrétnych funkcií, s ktorou pravdepodobne nebudete musieť interagovať, a to vďaka inteligentnej úrovni automatizácie, ktorá sa deje v zákulisí Loxone systém sa neustále učí a jednoducho sa stará o seba. Mali by mať rodine, aby hostia zostali, teplota miestnosti sa dá ľahko upraviť.
V tomto dome je ďalší aspekt inteligentného vykurovania, ktorý je v skutočnosti jednou z preferovaných funkcií Ben:
„Aj keď toaleta už môže byť z budov vynikajúca inštalácia alebo krásne letné deň slnka; Keď vystúpite zo sprchy, stále môžete mať teplé, suché uteráky – aj keď zónované kúrenie nemá dôvod na to. Je to vďaka funkcii zvýšenia koľajnice uterákov, ktorá prepína iba koľajnice uterákov po dobu 20 minút. Vďaka spôsobu, akým Loxone riadi vykurovací systém, môže kotol zahrievať chladič uteráka v žiadnom momente, oveľa rýchlejší ako elektrická koľajnica uterákov. Tiež sme použili senzor vlhkosti na aktiváciu podlahového vykurovania a ventilátora extraktora, aby sme vysušili miestnosť, ak sa hromadí vlhkosť – čo sa tiež ukázalo, že je to skvelá funkcia pre rodinu (opäť niečo, čo v pozadí funguje dobre bez všimnúť si). “
Vykurovací systém je zónovaný, čo znamená, že energia nie je premrhaná zahrievaním všetkých miestností súčasne. Ak sa rodina teší z filmu v salóniku na poschodí pred spaním, potom nemá zmysel zahrievať väčšiu recepciu na prízemí súčasne. Inteligentné oddelenie vykurovacích zón je samozrejme riadené loxónom – automaticky. Vykurovanie pre každú miestnosť prechádza do vlastného rozvrhu a prispôsobenej teplote. Teplota v každej miestnosti sa číta dotykovými spínačmi, z čoho vyplýva, že nie je potrebné samostatné teplotné senzory – ďalší skvelý spôsob, ako sa táto technológia neodvráti od interiéru.
Nie každý život však vedie k ideálnemu rozvrhu a Loxone Smart Home to vie. Ak rodina dorazí domov skôr, ako sa očakávalo, alebo ak baví hostí a pohyb sa stále zistí v čase, keď sa predpokladá, že harmonogram vykurovania sa skončí, dom sa ubezpečí, že príslušné miestnosti dosiahnu a udržiavajú pohodlnú teplotu. To všetko sa robí bez toho, aby niekto potreboval upraviť termostat alebo dosiahnuť aplikáciu.
Nočný mód
S trojitým kliknutím na posteľ sa dotýka celý dom, keď sa aktivuje „nočný režim“; S akýmkoľvek svetlám, ktoré sa nevyžadujú, sa vypínajú a dokonca vyzbrojujú miestnosti na prízemí kvôli bezpečnosti. Všetky vykurovacie zóny, ktoré stále chcú do harmonogramu, sa skončia čoskoro, aby zbytočne plytvali energiou a peniazmi.
Garáž
Keď sa projekt blížil k dokončeniu, do systému Loxone sa pridali kontrola brány a garážových dverí. To nielenže dáva rodine možnosť ich otvoriť a zatvoriť z aplikácie Loxone Smart Home, ale tiež im ukazuje, či je garáž otvorená – bez ohľadu na to, či sú v posteli alebo na dovolenke.
Spínače a senzory
Darren (architekt) a Ben sa chceli ubezpečiť, že dizajn domu nebol ohrozený žiadnou inteligentnou technológiou; A nebolo to. switches and sensors were placed in tactical areas to allow seamless control over the system but also to have no negative impact on the home’s design. Z tohto dôvodu bol viacstranný loxónový dotyk ideálny.
Smart Garden
As future-proofing their home was a requirement of this family during the planning stage, Amica chose to install one additional Loxone component during the build to guarantee that when the family are ready to add smart home functionality to the garden, such as smart lighting, then there is the option to do so without hassle.
Set over three floors, this amazing home has been made even much more amazing thanks to the way that Loxone has been used to intelligently automate the lighting, heating, safety and security and access control. The healthy working relationship between architects who understand the significance of including home automation considerations at the planning stage and a professional smart home installation company such as Amica is apparent in the meticulously finished product.
Ferndown is a real smart home where so numerous aspects of the home are simply taken care of behind the scenes, making life simpler and making being in this dream home that much much more enjoyable.
I love being a Loxone partner and installing their products. It keeps me at the forefront of the industry and I’m always busy with new and exciting projects. as for the quality of the Loxone devICES, nemôžem to zaviniť, pretože remeselné spracovanie a technológia pod ním je na špičkovej úrovni.
Ben Tozer
Riaditeľka Amica
Gratulujem Benovi a zvyšku jeho tímu v Amici k uvedeniu tohto výnimočného inteligentného domu. Dozviete sa oveľa viac o Amici a ich ceste k tomu, aby ste boli zlatým partnerom kliknutím nižšie.
Reprodukované z pôvodného blogového príspevku s láskavým súhlasom Loxone / Image Credit Chewton Bespoke Homes / Amica.
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