Home automation, control and security

Home automation, control and security is an emerging and fast-growing application area within home networking. It covers a wide range of applications that aim to make our daily lives more comfortable, safer and more energy efficient. Typical applications include:

• Heating / air-conditioning control
• Burglar, fire and security alarms
• Door phones
• Healthcare monitoring for the elderly
• Smart and remote metering

Applications like these allow consumers to monitor and control the environment in any room from anywhere in their home – or even beyond, via the internet or their (mobile) phone. And that opens up big opportunities for service providers and hardware manufacturers alike.

An obvious solution

As a relatively new application area, home automation, control and security has yet to fix on one standard networking protocol. However DECT, and particularly its new ultra-low power operating mode DECT ULE, is attracting increasing attention as that potential standard because it offers excellent all-round performance in the key technical requirements such as range, power consumption, reliability, bandwidth and cost.

The DECT difference 

• Long range
• Cellar-to-ceiling coverage without repeaters
• Voice capabilities built in
• Long battery lifetime
• Sensor operates for up to 10 years on a single AAA battery with DECT ULE
• Familiar, easy-to-use technology
• Installed in 250 million homes worldwide
• No interference issues
• Operates in the licensed but royalty-free 1.9 GHz band
• Internet enabled with secure encryption
• Mature technology reduces manufacturing costs