Sometimes, home and building automation terms can lead to confusion when, in fact, they are easy to distinguish.
The difference between them is that we talk about home automation when we refer to «set of technologies applied to intelligent control and home automation.» While building automation is «set of technologies applied to intelligent control and automation of buildings not intended for housing such as hotels, shopping malls, schools, universities, hospitals and commercial buildings all». (Source: CEDOM, Spanish Association building automation).
The advantages, therefore, it can bring us home automation move to the building automation in buildings and other facilities adapted to the architecture and workspace needs:
1. Energy saving and efficiency
Whether to save money, comply with legislation or awareness to environmental protection, more and more companies opt for building control systems.
In IDAE, Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving of Energy, Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism includes within its virtual to home automation as a way to save energy classroom. In addition, various sectors and industries may receive aid as «energy consumption per unit of product produced or service provided is diminishing, it increases energy efficiency».
In this sense, the main features of which can benefit are:
– Optimized control lighting, water, gas and shutters.
– Regulation of air conditioning and ventilation areas independently.
– Reports on energy consumption and possibilities for improvement.
We can, therefore, better use of resources, using slots allowing lower cost, thus reducing energy bills while you gain in comfort and safety.
2. Safety
Through building automation can:
– Detect: gas leak dangerous, suspicious on the premises, failures in the building entrances.
– Automate building control systems to the needs of the user, for example, time programs, setpoints, etc.
– Diagnostic report these failures and possibilities for improvement.
– Optimizing centralized building automation system, for example, setting regulators, setpoints, etc.
3. Comfort
Home automation and building automation allows remote control of systems installed (light, air conditioning, heating, blinds …) via online via a website, this makes possible to use any device (mobile, tablet, pc, television …) Internet access to access each and every one of the systems being very user friendly.
In addition, building automation systems can perform maintenance require little maintenance, verification and even reprogram their status from a distance, without any technical knowledge.
4. Communication
In addition, it includes building automation advances in the Information Society and Telecommunications:
• Access to information: libraries, books, newspapers, weather information, etc.
• Communications:
– Transmission of voice and data, including text, images, sounds (multimedia), resources and exchange between all devices,
– Access to new IP telephony services, digital television, video, telephony using switchboards, etc.
And every possible idea that innovation can bring. Indicated here is just a sample of the current state of knowledge and progress.