The design of your smart home window treatments is about more than shading occupants from the sun and providing privacy. The design of window treatments impacts every element of the smart home from climate control, acoustics, video and screen viewing, security, and aesthetics. Insight Automation International believes in developing fully integrated smart home systems that include window treatments.

The Top 5 Reasons to Include Window Treatments in Your Smart Home

1. As a homeowner you will inevitably end up purchasing and installing some form of window covering such as drapes, blinds, or shades. We believe that if you are going to spend the money, you should ensure that you are receiving the required functionality from the product. Motorized window treatments will allow you customize settings and optimize the impact of your shades, using them to their greatest potential.

2. Climate control is a great way to save money and limit your carbon footprint. Motorized shades will provide you with the ability to limit or welcome natural sunlight into your home. In warm climates such as Arizona and Kelowna BC in the summer, having automatic settings that will raise and lower automatically will allow home owners to control the temperature of their home without ever touching the thermostat.

3. Lighting is one of the most important elements of any space. We all prefer natural sunlight, but we also want to be able to control it. By using automatic settings and fully controlled motorized shades, homeowners can control the lighting of the home and can limit their energy consumption by utilizing sunlight as opposed to artificial lighting.

4. The glare of the sun across your big screen TV can ruin a good movie on a summer night. Using automatic blinds or shades, you can adjust the sunlight entering your home and hitting your screens without ever having to stand up. This automation can also allow be applied to your home office. Is the sun shining against your computer screens at certain times of the day? Auto set your shades to adjust along with the sun and you can keep working uninterrupted by the sunlight.

5. One of the greatest tools for home security and privacy is automated shades. Using remote controls from your phone or tablet, you can adjust your shades from across the world, creating the illusion of activity in the home. Better yet, you can auto set your shades to rise and lower throughout the day, so they will adjust without you ever having to think about it!

To learn more about including automated or motorized shades in your smart home, contact a member of our team today.