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Technology at home, how does it improve amenities?

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Nowadays we’re sorrounded of technology at home, we are basically living connected to it. It’s very complicated to imagine our daily routine without pending on our smartphone or browsing through at a computer.

Now more than ever, we’re finding technological products for home which are useful to interact with them, thanks mostly to the Internet of Things.

We encounter from devices to keep your house clean without moving, to different kinds of gadgets or security cameras.

Here we tell you about some gadgets which introduce technology at home to improve comfort day by day.

LED technology for your home

Smart lights which allow us to save up, at the same time that we get to set desired light intensity.

We can control all of these kinds of lights from our Smartphone, with voice assistants and connecting it to another remote device.

One of the brands we recommend you is Philips and its Hue’s poduct line: lamps, bulbs, LED strings and a great services’ interaction as it is IFTTT which allows you to create automatic tasks (for example, to switch on the garage lights when we are arriving home).

Robot vacuum cleaner

Another technology at home to improve comfort and besides, to have your home gleaming without moving a finger is a robot vacuum cleaner.

These robots clean dust with a rotating brush above an horizontal axis.

Also, some of them count on small brushes on over vertical axes to remove dirt under the vacuum and they collect with the main brush.

Each robot has cleanliness programmes, which you could choose according to your needs and schedules.

They charge at a loading station, or a charger which connects to the robot.

They are actually very trendy, and we can find different models as they are Roomba, LG, iLife, Vileda or even Xiaomi.

Intelligent cameras

New intelligent cameras models have noticeably improved to blend into decoration. Besides, it includes new functions as WIFI technology connected to the house or work’s network  .

This way we control at any time what is happening at any room from the Smartphone.

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WIFI video door phone

 If anyone rings the doorbell, we can see it directly from the Smartphone as if we were at home. Models such as Ring Automotive are able to detect movements at exterior environments, sending alerts to your Smartphone.

Electronic lock

It can action from the Smartphone, a remote control or introducing the fingerprint. But these last identification methods don’t include it, you have to buy them apart.

Intelligent thermostats

To create smart spaces in every aspect, with the ability to adapt taking into account the situation. Those play an important role to reduce home energy costs and with them, you can customise heat programmes and create them.

Smart plugs

These can be remotely controled by a remote control, and there are others which already add intelligent functions, with remote control from the Smartphone and they can be programmed with the ability to integrate with other devices.

We also tell you about some of the advantages and disadvantages of technology at home.

Advantages of having technology at home

  • Energy costs decrease for rooms’ temperature control, lighting, and electric consumption control, obtaining as a result higher savings and environmental care.
  • Comfort at smart homes is fine, and it manages through internal environment control by specific schedules programming for conditioning equipment, lighting, etc.
  • An automated system allows to integrate any device which isn’t intelligent to the system.
  • It is able to link to mostly any kind of device with Internet access.
  • Security, you can detect any intruder in your home, a fire, a gas leak or a water leak.
  • Besides, by security cameras you can see what is happening from any place and this way deciding what to do.

Disadvantages of having technology at home

  • The investment is a bit high depending on the required system.
  • If any faulty occurs at the system, it would block all of the network and its functions would remain annulled.
  • As it’s  Internet, it’s exposed to be invaded by a software contributing to manipulation and monitoring without any permit.

This is our brief analysis about the current domotics and how it adapts to a luxury home.

As a result, we reach to the conclusion that advantages are more beneficial, that’s why we recommend to install this technology at home.

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Luxury on smart homes

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These are future homes, technological solutions offered by smart homes, they help us to simplify and improve our life quality by technology and design integration.

There’s an increasing number of houses that count on this kind of technologies at home, which their main feature is the integrated wiring, controlled by an intelligent device.

The relation between design and personal preference leads to a great level of eccentricity and luxury.

What make these smart homes smart is automation  but, for those who don’t get familiar with the term, when talking about ‘automation’ we mean the technologies combination applied to automation and control of the house, allowing the efficient management of energy, comfort and security, which allows those who live inside it to control from a Smartphone or an iPad. Its advantages are many, as they provide well-being, life quality, time savings…

But, what advantages bring Smart homes to us?

5 fields in which services offered by automation work are:

-They contribute us with great cost savings, there’s a growing number of people that look for this at the most efficient way.

–Security, through automated people surveillance, throughout intrusive controls, automatic doors closing system, security cameras, personal alarms… converting this way your home into a more comfortable place, so it allows you to switch off, switch on, regulate… all electronic devices of the house.

–Accessibility, also to disabled people, it eases all home elements handling, adjusting to all of their needs.

–Comfort, it gives required need to every single person who lives inside the home.

– It guarantees communication, through the house’s remote control, Smartphone, computer, tablet.. which delivers all the anomalies to these devices.

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In recent years, this industry has evolved enough, contributing with solutions to all kinds of homes, increasing life quality, living functionality and well-being of its inhabitants.

Current real state industry takes much into account domotics systems, so they make more comfortable and efficient it’s inhabitants life. This kind of solutions cover great part of users’ needs. Having your own smart home controlled, it doesn’t only contributes to have the whole of your life managed, but to know its consumption at every moment. One of the main reasons to integrate this technology is energy efficiency.

All of us at least for once, we have dreamt to have a luxury home and apart from that to have this technology applied to the home.

In addition, here we want to show you a list of astonishing houses, which also are Smart Homes.

Nowadays there’s a big number of apps to control your Smart Home from your Smartphone or from your tablet

Here we want to recommend some of them easy to customise and use, which will make your life easier:

PhilipsHue

It allows you to control lightning from Philips devices that you have at home from your smartphone or your iPad, setting a suitable level of light depending on the situation in which you are.

See-home

A Schneider Electric app for devices with Android or iOS, which allows you to control automated installation all over the house.

Houseinhandknx

With this one you can control lights, climatization, shutters, audiovisual devices such as audio, TV, cameras… from whereever you are.

IndigoTouch

Another app for iPad and iPod Touch, iPhone, which allows to remotely control lightning, irrigation plants system, heating… among other devices.

Nexho

Also used for automated control of the house, for iOS and Android. It manages electronic devices, shutters, climatization, lightning…

Tahomahome control by Somfy

Both for Android or for Apple, it allows to control io-homecontrol techonoly equipments, both if you are at home or out of it.

Wink

Once installed and connected to it, it allows to raise and lower the garage door, lightning, opening and closing doors or checking if there’s a water leak.

Peel:

Another app which consists on an intelligent remote control with automated control for the image, sound and multimuedia uses.

TYcoInteractive Security:

It allows to watch live the house, heating, controlling lights, and the rest of devices connected to the network. It also makes available an alarm system to alert the police.

Parrot Flower Power:

For those enthusiast of the last technologies and ecology, it includes a sensor to measure plants needs that live in the house.

Ilumi:

It’s designed for all kinds of smartphones, this app offers the possiblity to optimize and play with the lightning. It’s for houses integrated by several kinds of LED bulbs that can be programmed to change the colour.

In conclusion, in iLuxenio we can make your dream come true, if you’re thinking of building the house of your dreams don’t hesitate to contact us, we use the latest technologies for your project’s development.

You can contact us in iluxenio@iluxenio.com.

iLuxenio, leaders in exclusive and sustainable construction.

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Elegance in the luxury houses

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From iLuxenio we propose a luxurious way of life, with our villas and luxury houses in the most exclusive zones and the most quoted soils.

A term tied to this is the elegance, which fits perfectly with a model of luxury house and sustainable villa

In which they reign harmony, coordination of elements and its resilience regarding to the environment in which it is.

For managing to reach the elegance in any construction is almost indispensable the use of noble and natural materials

Materials which transmit a sober and lacking language in ornaments that strengthens the simple lines and the most contemporary style of architecture or that simply they remember us this sensation that we always must be in contact with and to be conscious of the availability and the suitable utilization of resources.

As Coco Chanel said: ‘Simplicity is the key of the real elegance. ‘

Great part of the elegance sensation that a villa or a luxury house could transmit comes from the work of the interior design. According to Pantone (X-Rite’s subsidiary) relating agency in the manufacture, design and distribution of colors worldwide.

In all the sectors the trend colour of this 2017 is the Hunter Green or Green Mount, a very deep dark green that has been identified very well in the textile industry in portfolios and clothes in general and which also has established itself in the homes.

The perfect combination for this type of green as a primary colour is the grey, so the shade that provides to it is one of the most elegant connections, according to the renowned interior designer Roberto Lucena from the College of Interior decorators and Designers of Interiors of Puerto Rico.

But he warns us that it’s a color that, because of its depth, it’s to be used with moderation.

The perfect thing is to see it as an accessory, as a sofa, or if we want to go stronger.

We could put a gray armchair with a wall or an area in hunter green.

Lucena emphasises that where it would not correspond the hunter green, is in wide walls since spaces would get too much dark, as well as in big furniture or in carpets.

Apart from grey, blue, yellow, pink and peach would mate perfectly with this type of green.

In general terms, without bearing the trends in mind, if what is wished is the combination of elegance and luminosity for our villas or luxury houses the mixture of colors that always works is white and brown.

The brown puts its style and distinction and the white contributes its luminosity and false extent, when one finds the balance sheet between these two colors for each type of house with its respective features the result is something unique and distinguished.

If the particularity of a design is enough to award an interior design with a singular personality with much less requirements than you imagine, the use of noble materials in luxury houses and villas is another endorsement of guarantee.

Risking with organic design elements is a way of giving a fresh breath air to your villa elegantly.

A very valued material for decoration and construction because of its versatility and variety of lines, is the glass.

Its pure qualities have positioned it as a very showy and subtle element of interiors and exteriors.

And its integration with noble materials as it is the wood give to your design a marked chic style.

In trends of furniture and interior design, it’s not possible to speak about another style that is not the minimalist.

Since you could have seen in our Minimalist catalogue, it’s not necessary to exempt the luxury of this trend.

Although it is true that the confection of interiors under the minimalist principles, is an attainable challenge for the best and more experienced designers of interior, such as the ones we have in iLuxenio.

Following the minimalist design, furniture pieces integration in the same space could lead to the quality and image’s deterioration.

Minimalist in which one piece is the protagonist,  an ideal colours choice, it can give a result more than surprising.

As promoters of sustainable villas and luxury houses our advices for an elegant construction are:

  • Working with an architect with a philosophy and tastes similar to yours.
  • Asking for references of a recent and past projects’ portfolio as the ones you can consult in iLuxenio.
  • The architecture professionals bet this year for intelligent designs.
  • Characterized by several factors as they are the transformable spaces and the interactivity between the zones.
  • The transparent, laminated and brilliant surfaces are some of the aspects that are demonstrated by major force.
  • If one wants to promote the translucency, crystals are the best option.
  • Constructing with natural stones, metals and polished marbles.
  • The natural stone coatings are some very good thermal, acoustic and dampness insulatings for the villas or rustic luxury houses.

Depending on the characteristics of the chosen rock type, we will obtain a result more or less elegant.

As well as of its layers and placement procedures.

A detailed analysis of our luxury house and a decoration using this kind of minimalist elements would fascinate your guesses

At the same time that you make your own house a true home to live.

You can contact with us in: iluxenio@iluxenio.com

iLuxenio, leaders in exclusive and sustainable construction.