Allowing automation into your business frees you up to concentrate on running your business. It gives massive flexibility in lighting, music, video and climate control. As well as being perfectly suited for the purposes of entertainment and aesthetics, it also has many security and utility benefits.
One touch to open up the premises, one touch to change to the lunchtime theme, one touch to change to the evening theme, one touch to close-up in the evening. Or you could even have it scheduled and forget about having to change the lighting scenes, music selection and volume at all and let the building manage itself. You can also ensure your staff don't change your carefully chosen music selection to anything inappropriate or increase the volume to unnecessary levels.
You can remotely unlock a door to allow deliveries, assign staff with unique entry codes so you can monitor the opening and closing of the premises. You can also receive notifications to alert you if the door hasn't been unlocked or locked within specific time slots. Combine this level of access control with CCTV and you never have to worry about your business again as you can monitor it from anywhere in the world in real-time.
Give your guests the VIP treatment, automate your rooms to greet them as they enter. Not only does this help your guests feel special and welcome, it also helps cut your electricity bills as the lighting only comes on when it needs to. This energy efficiency can be further bolstered with the use of occupancy sensors in the event a guest leaves any lights on when they go out. Control4's keypad engraving means the functions of the buttons are totally self-explanatory (crucial for situations where people don't have the time to learn complicated button layouts), so you can have amazing lighting designs that are easy for the guests to appreciate. This ease of control extends to an entertainment system and climate control in their room. You have the option of wall or stand-mounted touch screens or more familiar feeling remote controls. Giving your guests convenient control of their comfort and entertainment, all within pre-prescribed parameters (such as temperature ranges and volume levels). This level of sophistication isn't just suited to the guest suites, it is ideal for the public areas of the hotel as well. The hotel can control its own entertainment throughout the course of the day (keeping the music playlists and volume suitable to the time of day helps keep guests comfortable) and managing the TVs in the Lounge and Bar areas while still making it easy for staff to change channels when required. This scheduling is also ideally suited to lighting, allowing the building to react as the day progresses, changing lighting themes and reducing lighting costs whenever possible.
Add a level of sophistication to your Conference facilities and at the same time make them even easier to use. Impress clients with slick presentations and increase the productivity of your meetings by avoiding any unnecessary interactions with the equipment and concentrating on the content of the meetings.
Automate certain events to simplify use. Such as having the projection screen drop automatically when the projector is switched on, dimming the lights and closing the blinds at the same time. Switch cameras and microphones on and off as and when they are required with the press of a button.
Use Control4 to manage televisions and audio from a central location. Have everything come on at opening time and have it all turn off at the end of the day. Use occupancy sensors to reduce the electricity bill by switching off the lighting in any parts of your gym or spa that aren't being used. Take control of your heating bills - Control4 will monitor temperatures, open and close windows, switch fans on and off and open and close blinds to maintain comfortable levels at all times with the least amount of powered heating and cooling possible.
We design and install Entertainment Systems in Student Accommodations nationwide. These specialist installations need to be extremely reliable, very easy to use, secure and most importantly, enjoyable for the students. Using Control4, music can be scheduled to start and stop and TVs turned on and set to specific channels in the communal areas with no input from the Accommodation Manager. Occupancy sensors can turn the music off in areas that aren't being used. Students can have control over what they're watching or listening to, with no remotes to lose and simple activity based interfaces that make the system very user-friendly. Volumes can be limited in all areas with different limits for different times of day. All of this gives central control to the Accommodation Manager when they need it and the convenience of automation for the rest of the time.