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Welcome to Future House:

Future House Enterprises designs and builds environmental monitoring and control systems for homes, businesses and acerages. Products and services include:

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Home Automation Layout

          Home Automation systems designed to provide whole house control.

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Scalability

The average 3 bedroom house requires over 300 control points to manage ac outlets, ceiling lights, sensors, audio visual systems and motor controllers. Large multi level dwellings often require over 1000 control points. Future House automation systems provides full house automation for dwellings of all sizes. The central control system can be scaled to manage several hundred to several thousand devices.

Integration

One of the many challenges in developing effective central control systems relate to integration of multiple communication standards. Future House has over 30 years of research and development resulting in a design framework that translates signals and protocols from different device types into a central control system. This allows you to use automation products from different manufactures while maintaining integration with core logic.

Intelligence

The ability to centrally integrate and manage so many devices and sensors sets the Future House system apart from other home automation designs. The central logic control can communicate with all devices as if they were part of the same family. This allows devices to follow a common set of attributes that establish relationships with the central core logic and or each other. Future House home automation systems enable the true concept of a Smart House.

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A Day in the Life of Home Automation

"Home Automation must do just that.... automate. Otherwise its just another gadget that you have to program. - Mike Hogan"

Imagine the ability to control every light in your house from any location using many types of interfaces. Conveniently placed switches, touch screens,  microphones and lighting macros control individual zones or the whole house at the touch of a button, voice command or reaction to some other event.

Media     PushButton     Remote Access to Home     Voice control

Now imagine adding integration with handheld devices, ambient light, motion, and other sensors. This sensory information combined with event calendars and logic modules provides a truly integrated and intelligent system. The concept of using light switches eventually diminishes.

Examples:

  • Walk into a dark room, light comes on, when room is empty, lights go out.

  • Multiple switches and control points provide a convenient means of activating macros and group functions such as zone dim and room kill.

  • Event calendars determine when to shift into holiday or seasonal lighting modes.

  • Multi-room voice recognition handles alternate means of controlling lights and other devices from all family members simultaneously.


Clap on Clap OffLIGHTING - The simplest form of Home Automation is the ability to control lights. Since the beginnings of being able to clap off your reading light. The concept of automation was way cool. However, the cool factor quickly wears out when you realize that you still have to get up and turn off the rest of lights.

 Automation lifestyleWith Future House automation control systems you have full control of the entire house. The core logic ties sensors and controls together so that the house can make intelligent decisions. For example: If the house detects that no one is home the house is placed in burglar deterrent mode by performing random lighting routines. Automated lighting is just one of the many features provided by Future House whole house automation.


SAFETY - Home automation safety involves being aware of potential dangers before they become a serious problem. Some of the primary sources of danger include heat and water. Where's there's heat, there's potential for fire, where's there's water there's potential for flooding.

Prevent water damageThe Future House sensor array uses sensors located at every source of water to provide warnings. Example: If the water heater springs a leak. The main water line is shut off and a message is sent to your work email and phone. You immediately connect to the house web site and investigate the alarm. Fortunately there's only a small puddle. The Future House Automation System has taken care of the emergency. 

Warning bellsNo one wants to get a message that smoke is being been detected. Not so bad if the alarm is a result of burnt toast. But never the less if any of the smoke sensors are triggered, the alarms are sounded and emails are sent to designated recipients. 

Fire protectionMost importantly, fire safety depends on early detection of unexpected heat sources. The Future House safety detection system integrates smoke and heat sensors throughout the entire house. If a problem exists anywhere in the house, alarms are sounded and the messaging system kicks in. Senereo2: Have you ever wondered. "Did I leave the stove on". Upon leaving the house, warning alerts are sounded if heat sources are detected in areas like bathrooms and kitchens.



ENTERTAINMENT - Most modern homes have a multitude of entertainment devices such as TV's, satellite receivers, cable receivers, radios, DVD players and gaming systems.

Entertainment systemsAll these devices have there own remotes and individual control characteristics. The accumulation of remotes and varying ways in which to use them can cause unreliability and confusion. Don't leave your guests wondering which sequence of buttons to push to watch a movie or play a video game. How smart is your house?

Media Touch PanelThe Future House Audio Visual control system integrates all IR controllable devices into a central management system that is able to make smart choices on how to prepare AV components for a particular setup. If grandma wants to watch a DVD, she just presses the DVD button on the touch panel. The TV will come on, the stereo will switch to DVD mode, the lights will dim, the blinds will lower and the DVD player will invite the popping in of a DVD disk.




MECHANICAL
- Future House automation systems securely control mechanical devices. Included in this list are blinds, vent dampers, water valves and locks.

Motorized BlindsMotorized blinds are a convenient way to control ambient light as well as giving your house that lived in look. Blinds are up during the day and down at night. Quote from owner - "The living room blinds in our house have been rising with the dawn and lowering at dusk for over 9 years now. Its like a seasonal clock".

Electronic locksHow often have you wondered "is the door is locked?"  Have you ever needed to let someone in while you were away ? Future House's Lock Management Systems (LMS) provides secure RFID tag access as well as secure internet access for monitoring and controlling access to your home.


HVAC - Enjoy perfect comfort and reduced energy costs when interfacing house intelligence with electronic thermostats and flow control. Monitor heating / cooling cycles and ensure maximum energy savings.

IP TermostatProliphix TCP/IP thermostat provides browser accessible monitoring and controls as well as interfaces to Future House automated house system. The interface adds extra intelligence for controlling temperature setbacks and special heating and cooling functions.

Vent DamperThe efficiency of forced air furnaces can be improved by adding vent dampers at strategic locations. The Future House central logic determines when zones have been unoccupied and will control vent dampers thus lowering furnace/AC energy consumption.

 

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