My sister always has the newest gadgets and whistles! She recently converted night to be a part of a building management system! BMS is quite tech heavy! You have your Heating as well as Air Conditioning, security cameras, and lights all a part of it… The idea is that you have one hub that you can control everything from streamlined use, and my sister can change anything from her iPhone now.
She doesn’t though.
Everything is all automated or on timers. The automated lights in her residing room are set to be dim if you walk through during the night… In the morning they are much brighter. The office lights are timed to go on before my sister’s labor morning and power down the moment she leaves. The heating and cooling is set the same way for her office. It is all actually cool and modern. However, when you house sit for him, it is sort of a nightmare. I really struggle trying to labor her BMS. I am not sure what is controlling what. I also am not sure that I want to mess with her programs. The lights coming on in the middle of the night totally freak me out. I don’t like that the office Heating as well as Air Conditioning will whirl on during 9 am when I least expect it. I also don’t like that if I want to turn a light off when I am in the room, I need to go on my iPhone. I understand for someone like my sister the system more than pays for itself; For someone who doesn’t use their iPhone a lot, building automation isn’t really for them.