The most powerful and common method of controlling your home with a
Home Management System is one or more touchscreens located in key
locations. Basically, a touchscreen is a computer monitor that
you use your finger instead of a mouse to control the computer.
Touchscreens provide full status and control of all features in
your home through simple easy-to-use graphics. The graphics
for your HMS include floorplans for environmental, security,
and distributed audio features. These screens show you the
status of the entire home quickly and easily.
Additional features are controlled through large easy to read
graphical buttons that you touch to control miscellaneous
features and whole house moods.
Another great way to control your home with an HMS is through a
lighting control system. Where it makes sense, you can add buttons to the
lighting keypads that can control much more than just lights. This eliminates
the need for separate audio or environmental controls cluttering up your walls.
Lighting keypad buttons can raise and lower the temperature or music volume
just as well as they can raise and lower the lights. They can also unlock
doors without keys, open the gate to let someone in, or select any whole house
mood.
A third control method is a voice menu accessible from any phone any where
in the world (passcode protected, of course). The phone menu provides whatever
house control and status you wish. The voice prompts are professionally recorded
by professional voice talent. You have a choice of male or female voices, and if
you wish, we can provide a demo tape of a number of different voices from which
you can choose.
The closest you'll come to home automation with an ESC Home Management System
is initiating actions from a contact switch. There are a few instances where
this works well. A favorite of many homeowners is low-level path lighting at
night time that can be turned on if you get of bed or step on a stair
tread. Custom configuration allows you to specify exactly when these
switches are active, and touchscreen controls allow you to disable and
enable this feature when needed.
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