Home Automation is used to describe residential technologies that go beyond traditional, analog residential products. Traditional residential technologies were typically mechanical, standalone products with limited functionalities beyond their own operation and control.
Traditional Standalone Devices
Mechanical Lock
Toggle Switches
Thermostat
Home Automation replaces these basic, standalone products with electronic, communicating, and controllable products that add new capabilities to the installation. Compared to traditional analog mechanical designs, these electronic products offer both enhanced individual standalone functions and new communications capabilities. These new device qualities are afforded by the Z-Wave RF networking technologies used by a certified Z-Wave product to monitor, receive, and send information throughout the residence.
Home Automation uses this communication network for unified command, control, and scheduling functions in the home. Z-Wave products perform these Home Automation functions wirelessly using RF mesh based radio communications.
