5 reasons to get a smart home
There are numerous reason to opt for a Karen smart home. Intuitive control, endless possibilities, affordability, etc. With Karen, your entire home will work as one harmonious system meaning the lighting, heating, blinds and more will all work in tandem together to create a truly intelligent home.
Here are just 5 reasons why you should consider smart home technology:
50,000 less tasks, more time to live
Karen takes care of most tasks automatically – giving you back time to enjoy yourself.
Comprehensive solution
We offer a complete solution meaning that whatever your requirements are we can help you.
All-round security
We offer security that goes beyond protection from break-in – our security protects the building, offers privacy to occupants and more…
Save energy costs
We use a range of intelligent techniques to ensure that you save money on your energy bill.
Easy to control
With just as little as one tap you can manually control lighting, blinds, audio and more if you’d like to.
A complete solution for your smart home
A smart home with Karen simply knows what to do. Be that in the morning or in the evening while you’re cooking, entertaining, or just relaxing. It plays the music you each want to hear – even if it is something different in each room. It creates the right atmosphere with lighting moods. It makes sure every room is always at the perfect temperature. All aspects of your home work together in harmony to ensure a level of intelligent-automation that is only possible with Karen.
HOME SPACES
Enjoy smart technology that’s simple to use and enhances your lifestyle throughout your entire home, a few rooms, or just one room. You always have the option to start in one area or a few areas and expand later. We’ll help you determine the best home automation solutions for your home whether it’s new construction, remodel or retrofit. Explore the possibilities and discover how you can experience added convenience, comfort, security, and aesthetics in your New England home–from Kennebunk, ME to Portsmouth, NH. For more information, please contact us today!
FAMILY ROOM
Transform your family room effortlessly depending on whether you want to relax, play games, read, or watch TV together. Unclutter the coffee table and reduce confusion with the simplicity of a single remote the entire family can use to control everything: TV, music, streaming content, DVD player, lights, shades and temperature. Home entertainment equipment can be concealed so you only see and hear it when you want to and your family room keeps the sense of style you desire.
COMMON SOLUTIONS
- Smart Home Control
- Home Media
- Lighting Control
- Motorized Window Treatments
- Hidden Audio / Video
- IT / Telecommunications
THEATER
Want a real theater experience in your home? We have perfected the home theater installation process so that the environment is precisely designed & engineered to provide maximum movie and music enjoyment in your Cumberland or Southern Maine home. The room is isolated from outside noise with special acoustic treatments and audio is optimized with measured speaker placement. Cozy up on plush theater seating positioned specifically for the ultimate viewing experience of your big screen. Lighting is also controlled so when you press a single button, the lights dim and the show begins. Press pause and lights dim up so you can get more popcorn and soda.
COMMON SOLUTIONS
- Home Theater
- Home Media
- Lighting Control
- Motorized Window Treatments
- Acoustics
- High Performance Audio
KITCHEN
Kitchens are the central hub of the home and you can easily change the ambiance of the space for cooking, cleaning, entertaining, doing homework, or reading. Imagine pressing “Prepare” and your favorite music playlist comes on, shades raise to fill the room with sunlight, and counters brighten accordingly. You can keep an eye on the kids from the touch screen or see who’s at the door when the doorbell rings. Simply use the intercom from the same control to tell them dinner is ready instead of shouting. Keep counters clear and focus on the granite countertops, Viking range or Sub-Zero refrigerator, not the wires, speakers or TV.
COMMON SOLUTIONS
- Smart Home Control
- Lighting Control
- Motorized Window Treatments
- Audio / Video
- Intercom
- IT / Telecommunications
BEDROOM
There’s no more going back downstairs because you forgot to turn off a light. Simply press “Goodnight” on the touch screen sitting your nightstand and all the lights turn off. Arm the security system, lower all the shades, and adjust the temperature from the same control. Select the “Read” option to adjust overhead lights and turn on some background music. Concealed and mirror TVs enable you to instantly transform your bedroom from a peaceful retreat to cozy spot for movie watching or catch up on sports highlights.
COMMON SOLUTIONS
- Smart Home Control
- Lighting Control
- Motorized Window Treatments
- Security
- Hidden Audio / Video
- Multi-room Music
OUTDOOR
It’s a beautiful weekend afternoon, why not have family and friends over for a barbeque, watch your favorite sports team and then wind down the evening with some great tunes and perhaps take a dip in the pool or hot tub. There’s a wide range of technology solutions built to withstand outdoor elements without compromising performance. Add music, video, and lighting control to make the perfect entertaining space or a personal retreat for relaxing after a long work day. TVs weather the storm and sun while minimizing glare for quality viewing even on a bright day. Outdoor lights automatically adjust at sunset to create ambiance and enhance safety.
COMMON SOLUTIONS
- Smart Home Control
- Outdoor Entertainment
- Lighting Control
- Pool / Spa Control
- Security
- Audio / Video
BAR / GAME ROOM
Score big with a bar or game room to watch the big game, or games on one sleek TV or multiple TVs. Sports fans or consummate entertainers will cheer about how smart technology makes it easy to choose HD video from different sources such as cable, satellite, Apple TV, or PlayStation® whether it’s in the room or on the other side of the house. Full control of entertainment, lights, shades, and temperature is at your fingertips from a sleek touch screen, remote, or smart device. Set the scene in your “man cave” with lights and music for a game of pool or foosball. If the doorbell rings while you’re enjoying a cocktail, check to see who’s at the door without having to move from your seat.
COMMON SOLUTIONS
- Smart Home Control
- Home Media
- Audio / Video
- Lighting Control
- Climate Control
- IT Telecom
Automation & Control
Control every aspect of your house from wherever you are, using your smartphone, tablet, PC, touch screen, remote or keypad. Control your Thermostat, Lighting and Smart home devices, with easy-to-use interfaces that ensures that controlling your home will be effortless, despite the complexity that goes on behind the scenes.
Network & Security
Communicate with all your entry points from anywhere in the world. From front doors to side doors, garages, gates, and everything in between, Savant Entry provides security you can see. Night vision allows you to monitor your door if movement is detected — an added layer of security so you and your family can sleep better at night.
Lighting
In your home, your lighting always knows when it’s needed thanks to Karen’s intelligent lighting control. When you enter a room, the correct lighting mood is activated automatically, taking into account the existing level of light in the room.
Whether you are at home or at work, Our Lighting solutions provide convenient access to light control, creating a comfortable atmosphere to support your activities throughout the day. And saving energy.
Your Lighting Moods in smart home
Karen offers you endless flexibility – combine different light sources to create completely personal lighting moods. Each light source can act independently which lets you get extremely creative with your moods. Amazing contrast can be created by using, for example, spotlights as your primary source of light however then LED tape to add accent lighting to the room.
Far more than just ‘lighting’
We believe ‘smart lights’ should be far more than just color-changing. With Karen you’ll have a range of functionality which ties into your system as a whole.
Dimming
Dimmed light is not only easy on the eyes, it can make a room feel completely different – cosier in many cases. Alongside this, it can also save energy – reducing your energy bill at the end of the month.
Gentle Transitions
When you scroll through your lighting moods, our lights will gently fade between them to ensure no sharp, unpleasant change is present. This feature is also noticeable when lights are turned on, they will fade in rather than just instantly switching to 100% brightness.
Used to inform
Flashing lights can be used to alert you in the event of a water leak, fire alarm or a suspected break-in attempt. They can also be used to notify you if somebody is at the door rather than using a doorbell.
Presence Simulation
Whilst you’re away (on holiday perhaps), your home, office, restaurant etc. will not look empty to onlookers. That’s because it will mimic natural behavior – turning lights on and off as if someone was in; deterring opportunistic burglars.
Child Lock
If you have young children, you can enable our Child Lock feature. This will temporarily disable the switches in order to prevent the little ones changing the lights. Whilst this is enabled you can still change the lighting moods via the app.
Energy Saving
If no one is in a room for a set period of time, the lights will automatically be turned off in order to save energy. Or you can always turn off all the lights in a room with a simple triple tap on one of our switches.
Wake-up Alarm
Why not be woken up by light instead of sound? With Karen, light can gradually fade-in just before your chosen wake-up time, gently waking you from your sleep.
Night Mode
If you get up during the night needing the toilet (or a snack), you’ll be automatically greeted with gently-dimmed coloured lighting. Just enough to guide your way, not enough to startle you.
Natural light considered
Your lights will turn on automatically based on presence however, the amount of natural light in a room will be taken into account meaning lights will only be turned on if necessary.
Blind Control
Venetian blinds, roller blinds, curtains and even awnings can all be perfectly controlled with Karen. Room getting too hot? The blinds will automatically come down to stop solar gains.
Get your blinds to do more than just protect you from the sun.
Our intelligently-automated smart blind system saves you from constantly having to adjust your blinds. However, that’s not all it does. It uses solar energy to heat your rooms cost-effectively, protects you and your privacy, automatically ensures comfortable temperatures and much more.
Good morning
7:00
Everyone is up and dressed. The shading in the entire house is automatically raised and the morning sun streams through the windows for a great start to the day.
Passive heating
9:00 – 11:00
Your home uses the natural warmth of the sun to bring your rooms to a comfortable temperature.
Automatic shading
11:00
Your blinds respond automatically depending on the weather conditions, room temperature and the position of the sun. If it is too warm inside, the angle of the blinds will be automatically adjusted or closed completely.
Storm protection
17:00
If a storm occurs, and you have external shutters or awnings, these will automatically retract to protect against wind damage.
Privacy
20:00
As the sun begins to sink, your blinds are closed automatically to offer privacy and help you unwind after a busy day.
Far more than just shading
With Karen, your blinds will take care of a multitude of tasks.
Temperature Management
In the summer, your blinds will help to prevent your rooms from becoming too hot. In the winter, they will help keep some of the warmth in. This is all done automatically.
Privacy Protection
At sunset, your blinds will automatically close to offer you some privacy from the outside world.
Storm Protection
If you have external shutters or awnings and there happens to be a storm, these will automatically retract to protect against wind damage.
Flexible Groups
With Karen you have the ability to group your blinds. Decide how many you want and what sets of blinds should go in each group – then you can control these groups as one.
Child Lock
If you have young children, you can enable our Child Lock feature. This will temporarily disable the switches in order to prevent the little ones adjusting the blinds. Whilst this is enabled you can still operate the blinds via the app.
Safety around-the-clock
If you are on holiday your blinds will mimic your behavior to deter potential burglars. Also if there is an emergency whilst you’re in, the blinds will automatically raise to make escape routes more accessible.
In perfect harmony
From music to security to lighting, with Karen every aspect of your system will work hand in hand. This results in a harmonious ecosystem.
Wake up with light
Be gently brought out of your sleep by natural light – with Karen your blinds will automatically raise in the morning to bring you out of your slumber.
Solar Optimisation
Your Karen system will know where the sun is and what the temperature is. It uses this information to adjust the blinds and heat your rooms via natural sources – thus saving energy.
Room Climate
Rooms have different purposes and, therefore, should be different temperatures. With Karen you can precisely control the temperature of each individual room in your home to make sure every room is always at the perfect temperature.
Perfect room temperatures thanks to our smart heating, cooling & ventilation control
Wouldn’t it be nice if your rooms were always at the perfect temperature? Well with our intelligent heating (and cooling) control you can completely automate your heating schedule to ensure each room is always at the desired temperature.
Individual Room Control in Smart home
A pleasantly cool 18° in the bedroom, a comfortably warm 23° in the bathroom and a cosy 21.5° in the living room. We understand that different rooms have different purposes and therefore shouldn’t always be the same temperature. With Karen you can enjoy perfect temperatures around-the-clock thanks to our individual room control. All of this is done automatically so you can relax.
Self-learning to ensure perfection
If you want a room to be 21° by 6 pm it will be exactly that. That’s because the smart heating and cooling control available with Karen intelligently learns so it knows what time to start heating a room to ensure it has reached your desired temperature at your desired time.
Far more than just heating & cooling
Get the most out of your smart heating and cooling system with our extensive level of functionality.
Automated Heating
Karen calculates your exact heating demand and knows at which times you are in or out. With this information it will ensure each room is always at the perfect temperature.
Energy Saving
Whenever possible Karen will try to use ‘free’ methods of climate control – heating a room using the sun for example. This will help you save up to 12.5% on your annual energy bill.
Economy Mode
If no one is in, Economy Mode will be activated – here the temperatures are controlled as cost-effectively as possible within a pre-defined range in an attempt to avoid wasting money.
Building Protection
You can set pre-defined protection temperatures. If the temperature falls above or below these then your system will automatically react to ensure no damage is done to the building.
Access via the app
You can view and change your temperatures at any time, even while you’re on the go. If you’re going to arrive later than planned simply adjust the heating to come on slightly later.
Instantly Informed
If something goes wrong, you’ll be notified immediately. This gives you a chance to react quickly and prevent any significant issues.
Statistics
You can record and analyse all of your temperature data over any period of time – which you could use as an insight to help you save money.
Knows the Holidays
Karen knows all of the public holidays and will take this into account when ensuring your rooms are at the perfect temperature.
Maintenance Reminders
As the system records its overall usage, you’ll be notified of any maintenance that’s due.
Multiroom Audio
With multiroom audio, you can choose which rooms play the same music and have something completely different playing in others. Choose relaxing music in the lounge to unwind with a glass of wine and a good book in the evening, while the children listen to an audiobook in their bedroom.
Audio & Music
We use high quality speakers to give you the ultimate sound experience from Architectural in-ceiling speakers and in wall speakers as well as Hi-Resolution audio systems to Wireless Home Sound Systems that fills as many rooms as you want with great-sounding music, movies and TV. Stream your favorite services like Pandora, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and more. You can play a variety of music throughout your home and outdoor spaces. Play you favorite music or sync a single song and hear the magic of distributed Home Audio.
Media Rooms
From the latest 4K TV’s to Home Cinema, you can enjoy limitless entertainment and control it all from one simple remote or touch screen-right at your fingertips to provide you an incredible entertainment experience.
Music has been proven to make us happy and reduce stress.
Our multiroom audio system helps you create the perfect atmosphere – whatever the occasion. Set individual room playlists so that the right music is always playing, be woken up by your favorite song, set a personalized doorbell sound and much more…
Multiroom audio explained
Multiroom audio enables what, not too long ago, seemed impossible. Think back to when there would be a radio in the bathroom, a CD player in the kitchen and maybe a sound system in the living room. It was virtually impossible to transfer songs from one room to another. Multiroom audio systems remove these spatial limitations and now make it possible to freely transfer music from room to room.
More than music
A multiroom audio system from Karen gives you great-sounding music however it also gives you a wide range of additional functionality.
Fully integrated multiroom audio
With the Karen Audioserer, music can be synchronized across rooms or played in each room individually.
Smart Doorbell
If someone rings the doorbell, the sound will be played throughout – unlike classic doorbells. In a home environment, if the children are in bed, don’t worry, Karen will take this into account and exclude their room from any notifications.
Alarm Notification
Should an alarm be triggered you’ll be instantly informed as the Karen Audioserer will play an alarm tone in all relevant room/areas. Thus giving you as much time as possible to react.
Text-to Speech
You can set pre-defined messages that can be read out to you in certain circumstances. For example, you could be told if you’ve left any windows open before you leave.
Voice Announcements
Within the Karen App, you can quickly and easily record individual voice announcements which can then be played by the Audioserer in a specific zone. This can even be done remotely.
Gentle wake-up alarm
Wake up to music. Just set your wake-up time and music will start fading in to gently bring you out of your slumber.
Intelligent Automation
When you enter a room, you’ll be welcomed by your favorite music or radio station. Then when the room is no longer in use, the music will then automatically be turned off.
Room Off House Off
A double-tap on our Touch switches will deactivate the music in any given room, a triple-tap will deactivate any music you may have playing in any area.
All under control
Thanks to our integrated media control solution, entertainment devices can be combined in harmony with the rest of your multiroom audio system.
Energy Management
In a Karen Smart Home lighting, heating, shading and much more all work seamlessly together in the most energy-efficient way possible; reducing your energy consumption and saving you money on your energy bill.
An interconnected system is an energy-efficient system.
With Karen the heating, cooling, blinds, ventilation and even the lighting will all work together in harmony to maximize your energy savings.
Save energy
Produce energy
Use energy
If you have an electric car you can charge it right from where you are. Even better than that, you can do so with the energy captured by your solar panels. Define the charging time, start and pause the charging process at any time via the Karen App or set fixed charging times to take advantage of cheaper night tariffs. Karen will also pay attention to the total current energy output in order to protect you against potentially overloading.
Top energy saving features in smart home
Energy-saving with Karen is multifaceted and is at the very heart of your system.
Standby Killer
Your standby devices and other power guzzlers will be automatically turned off when they’re not needed.
Room Off
A double-tap on a switch in any given room will turn off the lights, music and any devices being used. This means that you can be sure that nothing has accidentally been left on.
Energy Statistics
Your energy usage data can be viewed at any time directly from within the Karen App. This allows you to analyze it for yourself and uncover any potential savings.
Heating & Cooling
By intelligently managing your heating and cooling systems, Karen can produce some significant energy savings. Your system will always try to achieve your desired temperature in the most cost-effective manner.
Load Management
Karen keeps an eye on the total power consumption and can balance energy usage during peak times. You can, for example, switch off specific appliances in order to free up power to charge your car.
Device Notifications
You’ll get instant notifications if energy is being wasted or once energy usage has reached a specified threshold. Giving you as much time as possible to rectify the issue.
Security
Security in a Karen Smart Home is multifaceted: it protects against break-ins, protects occupants from danger such as fires or water leaks, guards the building and keeps your data private so you can relax and enjoy your time at home.
The smart security system you can rely on
Karen offers a multifaceted smart security system which is always looking out for you. It is constantly monitoring for water leaks, fires, burglars and much more. And the real beauty of it – a lot of the components needed for this are already being used for other features throughout your property so there isn’t much more you need.
Protection from break-ins
Like an invisible shield, Karen protects you from unwanted guests. It reliably detects intruders and reacts with highly conspicuous flashing lights and a loud siren sound to deter even the most determined of intruders.
Protecting the occupants
In addition to protection from break-ins, our security system will protect you from other potential dangers, such as fires or water leaks. Should one occur, you’ll be immediately informed in multiple ways – a notification will instantly be sent to your phone however, you’ll also be made aware by your lights beginning to flash. Also any blinds will be automatically opened to clear any escape routes.
Protecting the building
Life is full of surprises, which by their very nature, occur when you least expect them. A Karen system works to help alleviate the effects of those surprises. Burst water pipe? Just left and realized you left the door unlocked? Not to worry, you’ll be immediately notified so that you can take steps to quickly rectify the problem.
Privacy protection
All personal usage data is protected by various firewalls and security mechanisms on the Karen Miniserver. In addition, a Karen system will even work without an internet connection. We take data privacy very seriously and protect our customers’ right to data privacy to the very best of our ability.
Alarm notifications
Should someone gain unauthorized access an alarm chain (which has multiple stages) will be triggered. You’ll be able to see all of this within the Karen App.
Alarm activated
This is done automatically, based on time of day, via a switch or using the app. Devices such as Presence Sensors serve as alarm components.
Silent Alarm
Be notified by email, call, or push notification. If it is a false alarm, you can simply acknowledge the notification without the need for further action.
Audible Alarm
The Karen Music Server will start playing the pre-defined alarm sound at full volume.
Visual Alarm
All the blinds will open and the lights will start flashing – drawing the attention of the neighbors/passersby to the presence of anyone that shouldn’t be there.
Alarm off
Access Control
Design your access control solution entirely as you wish: with the video intercom, the NFC Key Fob as an alternative to keys and much more.
Secure access control via the Karen App
With our free app for your smartphone, tablet or PC you can easily & securely control the access, manage users, assign individual rights and see who is at your front door.
User management
You can add users to your app at any time, with the ability to assign different permissions to each person. This allows you to be in complete control of who has access to your home, office etc.
Intercom
You’ll be instantly notified when your doorbell rings. Then, if you wish, you can talk to whoever is at the door or send a text-to-speech message directly through the app. If you miss a visitor don’t worry a picture will be stored in the app so you can see who’s been at your door.
Access rights
You can use the app to assign specific access rights. If a friend needs to pick something up while you’re out, simply give them a one-time code which will only work on that occasion. If the cleaner comes at 3 pm every Friday, assign them a time-based code.
- Versatile.
- Intuitive.
- Secure.
The Karen access control system gives you a comprehensive level of functionality. Here are a few of the main features:
Individual access rights
With Karen you can assign specific permissions to each user. If you have a dog walker, for example, you can grant them access during the day however at night their code and/or tag will not work.
Logging & Tracking
You’ll always be able to see who’s entered your property and when that was. This is great for parents who want to know that their children have arrived home safely from school.
Flexible Integration
Our system is extremely flexible allowing you to integrate a wide range of electronic locks, doors, garage motors, etc.
Status of doors & windows
When you leave you’ll be informed if any doors or windows are open. You can also check the status of all doors and windows via the app at any time.
Numerical Codes
With the NFC Code Touch you can set individual functions to be triggered by a specific code. You could open the garage door by pressing 5 then entering your code.
Individual Doorbells
If someone rings your doorbell you’ll be informed via the speakers. However, if you do not want to be disturbed, the lights can inform you that someone is at the door rather than the bell.
Sauna
With automated control of your sauna, heat, light and music are all taken care of so your wellness retreat fits your needs perfectly.
Pool
Pool care can be complicated. pH regulation, purifying water, filtering, backwashing, rinsing and much more. Luckily a Karen Smart Home can take care of all of this for you.
Multiple applications
Parental control, remote access, filtering, backwashing, holiday mode and much more. Discover the many features Loxone has to offer to help you get the most out of your wellness facilities.
Sauna Control
Whether it’s remote access, child safety, or simply getting your sauna to the perfect temperature – Karen has got you covered. With intelligent control you simply get more out of your sauna so you can just kick back and relax.
Pool Maintenance
Having a pool can be brilliant but there is a high level of maintenance that comes with it: regulating pH values, treating water, filtering, backwashing, rinsing – just to name a few. However, with Karen this is all automatically taken care of so you can enjoy all the positives of pool ownership without any of the negatives.
Pool Control
Control your pool cover, the lighting, the water temperature, the jet system and much more. You can do this from within the pool, with the Karen Touch Surface or from the Karen App.
A range of functionality
Karen takes care of a multitude of tasks around your pool, sauna and co. Which means you can simply kick back and enjoy using them.
Remote Access
On the way home and fancy a dip in the pool or a relaxing sauna? Within the Karen App you can open the pool cover or preheat the sauna so that they’re ready for you when you get back.
Whole House
When you go to bed a triple-tap not only arms the alarm system, turns off the lights and music – it can also close the pool cover or deactivate the sauna.
Child Lock
Make your pool and sauna childproof simply by adding a code to the control. If you are not at home, the pool cover cannot be opened at all – so they cannot harm themselves.
Monitoring
Is the pool cover really closed? Did I definitely turn the sauna off? Gone are the days of tormenting uncertainty. Thanks to the Karen App you can see the status of either of these at any time.
Operating Modes
Are you expecting guests? With a few presses in the app you can set your pool to party mode which includes lights & music. If you go on holiday, the pool is just as easily put into holiday mode where the automatic pool maintenance is reduced to a minimum.
Cycles
Filtering, backwashing, rinsing, circulating… A pool is a lot of fun, but can also a lot of work. However it doesn’t need to be as Karen can automatically takes care of your pool maintenance tasks.
Smart Garden
Karen can also save you a lot of work in your garden. Intelligent irrigation control and automatic sun protection are just two examples of how Karen can help your garden thrive.
With many of us spending more time in our gardens recently and summer (hopefully) just around the corner, we thought we’d share 6 tips for transforming any garden into a smart garden.
Tip #1: Intelligent Irrigation
Let’s be honest, most of us don’t water our gardens as often as we probably should. Think back to the summer of 2018, green grass became somewhat of a commodity due to the lack of rain. However, an intelligent irrigation system could have helped prevent this. Karen can help you forgo the hosepipe in favor of a less manual irrigation system – allowing you to automate sprinklers according to a schedule, or according to the weather forecast.
Tip #2: Water Tank Monitoring
One popular way of remaining environmentally friendly is to use a tank to collect rainwater; then on days without rain to use this to water the garden. Normally there is no way to know how much water has been stored in the tank other than manually looking. However, with Karen, intelligent monitoring can quickly and easily be implemented so that you’ll always know how much water is stored. If you have a pump, this can also be automated so that it’s only turned on if there is a predefined amount of water in the tank.
Tip #3: Mood Lighting
Smart lighting is no longer something that should only be considered indoors. Lighting is one of the most distinct ways to bring a garden to life – the right lighting can take a garden from special to spectacular. This can, of course, be automated so that atmospheric lighting only comes on when it gets dark.
The great things about gardens is that lighting can be implemented in a wide variety of areas. So regardless of the shape or size of the garden, there will almost always be an opportunity to add some smart lighting – whether that’s along paths, on the exterior walls of the house, up lights placed in the ground or even in and around a swimming pool.
Pro-Tip: In our “Smart outdoor lighting” Use Case you can find out exactly how to implement mood lighting in a garden.
Tip #4: Perfect sound in the garden
In the UK when our few weeks of summer finally arrive, we love to have BBQs, gatherings or simply like spend some quality time in our gardens. However, often getting the music to play quickly and easily is a sticking point. However, we recommend simply adding the garden as a music zone for your house. This will allow you to nip to the kitchen to grab another drink without missing a beat since you can set up your music to play in two places at once or to ‘follow’ you as you move between areas in your home.
Also, if you are having a party or BBQ in the garden, there’s no need to worry about missing a guest or a delivery at the front door. With Karen, you can play a doorbell sound through your garden-based speakers.
Tip #5: Automatic Shading
In gardens without natural sources of shading, it’s important to still have some form of protection from direct sunlight. With Karen, any electric awnings can be intelligently automated taking into account things such as the outside temperature, the position of the sun etc. The Miniserver will automatically take care of shading you in your garden however, should you want to manually intervene you can do so at any time through either the Karen App or the Remote Air.
Tip #6: Outhouse Automation
It’s not just the main garden that can be automated. Many gardens have some form of ‘outhouse’ that can benefit from Karen technology: the greenhouse, summerhouse, pool house or boathouse. Even the humble garden shed.
Garden offices are becoming popular with those who want to work from home, but either do not have the room for a dedicated area in the house or just want a quiet zone with zero chance of impaling their foot on a piece of Lego. The Karen Miniserver can automate the heating to ensure it runs on a schedule that works for you. That means that if you’re sitting down to work at 8 am, your little cabin will already be warm and welcoming. There’s no need to worry about excess energy bills either, as the system can automatically switch off the lights and lower the heating after you’ve left.
WHAT WE DO
We are a full-service residential and commercial custom electronics design and integration company. Our smart home automation solutions make your home safe, elegant, fun and easy to use. Businesses experience increased productivity, enhanced environments for employees and customers, and simple control from commercial automation. Our team is comprised of skilled experts whose number one priority is to provide the best products and services to our clients.
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