4Home Control - Affordable Home Automation

It’s Easy to be Economical with 4Home Control

4Home Control allows you to combine high tech with positive environmental impact, not only giving you control of your home, but also, making it easy to conserve precious resources like energy, water, and time. By organizing the different systems in your home to work together, 4Home Control provides effortless entertainment, comfort, convenience and peace of mind—making Everyday Easy.

With access to your entire home from touch panels, TVs or a remote web connection, 4Home Control's affordable and easy-to-use products allow you to manage your home theater, multi-room music, smart lighting, temperature and security. Everyone can be green conscious because Control4 technology can significantly reduce your energy consumption without compromising your lifestyle. Both wired and wireless solutions can be installed in new construction as well as in existing homes giving any homeowner the power to be green.

Advanced Temperature Control

4Home Control gives you simple, convenient control over the comfort of your home and lets you be environmentally conscious, too. Not only can we program your thermostat to know when you’re home and when you’re out, but if your schedule changes, a keypad near your front door can automatically signal your house that you’re leaving and adjusts the temperature accordingly.

If you decide to come home early, remote access allows you to adjust your heating or air conditioning so your house is comfortable by the time you arrive. We can even automate some shades to open and close with the sunlight, reducing the work that your climate control system has to do; thereby saving even more energy.

Smart Lighting

Despite our best intentions, we all waste electricity by leaving the lights on. In fact, lighting accounts for 20% of all electricity consumed in the U.S., and 50% of that is wasted with inefficient light sources or in unoccupied rooms.

Dimmers are another great way to save energy. Dimming your lights by 25% (hardly noticeable to the human eye), reduces electricity consumption by 20% and quadruples the life of your bulbs. Ambient light sensors allow the system to automatically adjust the lighting levels on your Control4 dimmer so you never use more light than you need, but always have enough.

Dimmers are another great way to save energy. Dimming your lights by 25% (hardly noticeable to the human eye), reduces electricity consumption by 20% and quadruples the life of your bulbs. Ambient light sensors allow Control4 to automatically adjust the lighting levels on your Control4 dimmer so you never use more light than you need, but always have enough.

Effortless Entertainment

Home Theater Control and Multi-Room Music Wouldn’t it be great to get rid of all those remotes on your coffee table and control everything with just one—even your music? That’s exactly what 4Home Control does. Using a simple, easy-to-use remote, you can access your entire movie and digital music collection from anywhere in your home, which is all stored in a central, out-of-the way location.

Want to watch a DVD from the back bedroom? No problem. Want to play a particular song out on the patio? Just call it up on the screen and never bother thumbing through CD cases again. Home entertainment has never been easier.

All this convenience ends up saving you your own energy but 4Home Control takes green A/V to a new level with smart, power-sensing wireless outlet switches which can eliminate power-hungry standby modes by cutting power to A/V devices when not in use. And of course, when it’s time for new audio or video equipment, 4Home Control recommends that you recycle your old consumer electronics, by giving that old, hard to control component to someone else in the family.

Statistics

Household lighting accounts for 12-15% of our household utility bill Source: American Lighting Association Studies suggest 20% of all electricity produced in the United States is used for lighting but 50% is wasted by inefficient lighting sources or careless consumers. Source: Energy Conservation Enhancement Project at LSU (Louisiana State University)

Further savings can be realized by controlling the amount of wattage used by light bulbs
Installing dimming devices
Conserve electricity and save energy costs
Extend the life of the bulb

How Does a Control4 Dimmer Save Energy? First, advanced circuitry in each dimmer can cycle current to the lights 120 times per second – too fast for the human eye to notice but a very real savings

Second, each dimmer has a ZigBee radio and can be programmed to come on and turn off only when needed as part of whole home automation system

Dimming your lights percentage scale

10% dim - 10% energy saved = 2 times the life of your bulb
25% dim - 20% energy saved = 4 times the life of your bulb
50% dim - 40% energy saved = 20 times the life of your bulb
75% dim - 60% energy saved = More then 20 times longer

Source: The Energy Conservation Enhancement Project at LSU

How much can you help the environment with a 4Home Control system?

How much can you help the environment with a Control4 system from 4Home Control? 4Home Control uses dimmers, timers and occupancy sensors to reduce energy waste. With 4Home Control, managing a typical 3-bedroom home, over 850 pounds of CO2 emissions could be eliminated each year. That would be like not driving your car for a month. And that’s just the beginning. Imagine the positive impact you could have on the environment by adding other 4Home Control energy saving features!

Peace of Mind

Even your security system can be integrated into the rest of your 4Home Control system. When you’re heading out the door, simply push a button and you can not only arm your alarm, but turn off your lights, reset your thermostat, and shut down all AV gear and other electronic devices. Control4’s 4Sight Internet Services can even email you in the event of a water leak, fire or other security event. With access through touch panels, TV screens or remotely via the Internet, you can control your home and have true peace of mind, whether you’re in the next room or in the next state.

Everyday Economical

4Home Control makes being green an Everyday Economical lifestyle. We can customize 4Home Control’s energy savings capabilities to fit your needs and lifestyle.