The intelligent home knows you are coming home and what you want
"Integrally including domotics from the new construction up to and including follow-up. Thus from the specification phase through service provision in the years after handover." According to Michel Schrijvers, this in a nutshell is the plan the cooperation Hendriks Bouw en Ontwikkeling and Schrijvers Elektrotechniek decided on in 2008. In 2010 this cooperation will result in accommodation of Schrijvers in Dome-X, the new Hendriks Lifestyle and Knowledge Studio.
Intelligent home
Domotics is the umbrella concept for everything in a housing unit, office, school or care centre that contributes electronically to optimum safety, comfort and reduction of energy consumption. Says Schrijvers: "In the intelligent home, all appliances and installations are connected to one another and to the outside world. You can also operate them with one key, remote control or via a touch screen. You can arrange it in such a way that the home knows, as it were, that you are coming home and adapts itself to your needs of the moment."
User-friendly system
This is already the case in cars, explains Schrijvers. "Once the car is switched on, all functions are operating and everything can be read on one display. However, in our home we switch security, lighting, heating, kitchen equipment, computer, TV and audio on and off all day long. Domotics integrates and combines all functions into one user-friendly system, life-cycle durable, easy to expand and adapt to future wishes. The difference with the car? A car decreases in value, but a house with domotics increases in value! And using domotics can reduce energy consumption by thirty percent in comparison with the conventional installations, which in a technical sense have remained the same for a hundred years already."