
Perhaps there is no area where Camelot Construction stands higher
above the crowd than in home automation. Imagine being able to
see your front and back door at any time from your wireless palm
pilot. Did you remember to shut the garage door as you drive away
from your home, no need to turn around, just use your cell phone
to call the house and tell it “Close the garage door.”
Would you like your home to send you an email when the kids arrive
home from school, no problem. What about the debate of Swamp Coolers
vs. Refrigerated Air, why not have both and have your home automatically
select which one will work better on any given day? How about
a motion detector in every room that sets back the thermostat
in that room when it’s unoccupied in order to save energy.
The owner of Camelot Construction – Steve Alschuler –
is a licensed Mechanical Engineer with 15 years experience in
controls and instrumentation prior to home building. Steve has
taken his knowledge and experience from working on projects at
Intel and Los Alamos, and now applies this knowledge and experience
to residential construction. This allows a level of home automation
you simply have to see to believe.
Imagine coming into your home and announcing through the intercom
“I’m home.” The home computer speaks back to
you in a synthesized voice welcoming you home, announcing any
phone calls while you were out, turning on the lighting in select
rooms and changing the thermostats in the house to “occupied”
to make the home more comfortable. In addition, the home tells
you the real time price of your favorite stocks, and asks if you
would like to have a bath prepared for you in the Master Bathtub.
The home speaks to you in a male or female voice of your choosing,
and can even be programmed to have an English accent. You speak
back in plain English, and you and your home literally have a
conversation. Tell your home to “turn on the sprinklers,”
“Play jazz in the bedroom” or “Run my bath”
and the home does what you command, all the time speaking back
to you in plain English. Later in the evening you tell your home
“I’m going to bed” and let the home shut off
all the lights throughout the house, setback the thermostats,
and arm the security system. Sound too good to be true? Every
home Camelot Construction builds is pre-wired for this capability,
and for a nominal upgrade fee you can have this level of automation
in your dream home. If you would like to see a working home which
has this capability today, call or email us to schedule a demonstration.