A Pulse-powered home not only gives you total control, but also automatically make decisions to help keep your home comfortable while conserving energy at the same time. Easy-to-use touch screens, both in-wall and wireless, allow you to monitor all aspects of your home and quickly adjust lighting, climate control, curtains, and entertainment with the touch of a button. Pulse products have been designed to appeal to individual homeowners looking for ways to enhance their own homes as well as property developers building new communities. By leveraging the latest international standards for building and home automation, we offer solutions for both existing homes and new construction. Communities where networks of connected systems enable homeowners, maintenance teams, telecommunications operators, and energy companies to work together seamlessly to create comfortable, safe, and efficient living spaces. From the basics of allowing homeowners to monitor and control their home securely from anywhere in the world, to providing real-time fault and performance data to maintenance companies, Pulse products and services take advantage of modern broadband networks and 2G and 3G wireless networks to make all of these capabilities possible and affordable. Dramatic increases in global energy demand and rising costs necessitates the use of intelligent control system that economize electricity and water usage in homes and hotels; yet there are still instances where power shortages result in rolling blackouts which inconvenience customers and strain electricity grids.
The pulse.connect service overcomes many of the limitations of home networks by offering a reliable, friendly, and secure way to monitor and control homes via modern smart phones and personal computers. The combination of native client software for certain devices and modern web interface most others ensures that homeowners can stay connected and in control wherever they are. Native client software for some devices such as iPhoneTM or iPod TouchTM, Windows 5/6 smart phones. Optimized for mobile data networks such as EDGE or 3G.
great.entertainment control – Unified control over multi-room audio, video, lighting, temperature, and window treatments provides unprecedented levels of comfort in a reliable and cost effective way.
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KNX is approved as an International Standard (ISO/IEC 14543-3) as well as an European Standard (CENELEC EN 50090 and CEN EN 13321-1) and Chinese Standard (GB/Z 20965). KNX is therefore future proof. KNX products made by different manufacturers can be combined – the KNX trademark logo guarantees their interworking and interoperability. KNX is therefore the world´s only open Standard for the control in both commercial and residential buildings. News about Pulse at KNX site..click here
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