Making the buildings that we occupy better able to meet our needs has become a major dynamic driving electronics innovation over the last decade. It applies to houses, apartment blocks, office campuses, retail outlets, hospitals, schools/colleges, and numerous other spaces. Bringing greater levels of automated functionality to buildings can result in a multitude of different lifestyle and operational benefits.
Having high quality, energy efficient lighting is the foundation of modern homes and buildings. Well thought-out lighting installations, using the latest technology, can have a positive effect on the building’s occupants, augmenting the mood or tuning into their circadian rhythms. This can lead to greater contentment and awareness, as well as helping to improve their productivity. Solid-state lighting can be used in an architectural context to make building exteriors more visually appealing. It can also be invaluable in accelerating the growth of crops, so that greater quantities of food can be produced per hectare of land.
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Acquiring accurate data from distributed sensors, then transferring it over an optimal wireless or wireline connectivity protocol, opens the possibility for a building’s ambient environment to be adjusted. The occupants’ preferences can thus be taken into consideration, resulting in greater comfort and wellbeing. Across Europe, eco-design directives have meant that the energy efficiency of household appliances must be kept at the highest levels to avoid wastage. In addition, legislative measures that some countries are putting in place will call for the phasing out of boilers, replacing them with heat pumps. Other laws will require the monitoring of energy usage in serviced buildings to be compulsory - with systems needing to be installed for such functions.
Elsewhere, technology can be employed to make living and working spaces markedly safer and more secure. Presence detection and people counting systems make it possible to assign resources to where they are needed. The climate control can be altered in areas that are overcrowded, for example, and the lighting switched off in areas where it is no longer required, saving electricity. This can lead to a reduction in a building’s running costs and its associated carbon footprint. The management teams of building complexes can examine data produced by the deployed sensors in order to find ways to improve the services and amenities relating to that building and to prevent excessive expense. Automation is allowing homes to become more controllable too. The various systems involved are now much easier to interface with via touch, voice and gesture recognition, or even remotely using a mobile device.
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