Digliving.com Lighting control X-10 Insteon, Z-Wave, UPB, means your house intelligently serves you so that you are always comfortable and at peace. Simply Automated UPB, optimum solution, home automation leader, lighting control in rooms illuminate automatically when you enter and lights turn off when you leave. Window shades automatically close and lights self-adjust to control brightness levels. Imagine waking peacefully to the perfect light, giving you a perfect view of the sunrise, all while a fresh pot of coffee begins to brew in the kitchen. It’s possible with Home Automation. With a single push of a button, Home Automation transforms your house into your sanctuary.
Lighting Control –Take back valuable wall space by eliminating unnecessary clutter. Elegant keypads take the place of long lines of unsightly toggle switches with Home Automation and Lighting Control. With our Lighting Control system, you can control anything from a single light to your entire house from one button. With Home Automation, a simple touch can quickly turn off all of the lights in your house or set the perfect party mood for entertaining. Save energy by dimming lights, managing shades, and creating custom schedules for your landscape lighting when you combine Lighting Control with Home Automation. 
If part of your bedtime ritual involves going from room to room checking the lights, there is a better way. With Home Automation, simply reach for your touchscreen or smart phone and press the “Good Night” button. Instantly, your main lights will turn off while security and night lights turn on. Home Automation and Lighting Control by Digital Living will simplify your daily life.
To simplify operation, we tie your motorized blinds with our Home Automation sytem. We can program your shades to rise slowly over long period of time as the sun rises. Motorized windows shades are available in any style or color you choose, ranging from 1% to 5% open shades that allow light in while protecting your privacy to full black out shades.
Check out the video below to see how motorized blinds can simplify your life.
Climate Control –
Leaving the house for a few hours or coming home from work early? With one button press, you can adjust all of the thermostats in your house with our Home Automation system. Save on energy bills by running separate programs for when you are home and when you are away, and track the history of interior and exterior temperatures. A Digital Living Climate Control integrated with Home Automation pays for itself over time with energy savings.
Does your current Security System ramp up the lights when the alarm sounds? Does it flash the exterior lights to alert the neighbors? An integrated Security System by Digital Living adds this intelligence to better protect your investment and your family. You’ll always rest easy knowing your family and your home are well-protected.
About UPB Technology
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Highly Reliable — The UPB method of communication is 100 ~ 1000 times more reliable than current X-10 technology and 10 ~100 times more reliable than CEBUS or LONWORKS powerline technologies. UPB is 99.9% reliable versus 70%-80% reliability of X-10.* UPB transmits farther (over a mile), is less susceptible to powerline noise and capacitive attenuation (signal reduction) than other technologies for three reasons:
When put on one phase of a home’s two phase power line, the signals are so strong they go out to the street side transformer and are induced on the opposite phase, returning back to the home. Since UPB transmits at a low frequency, it does not affect other powerline devices or appliance/loads. No New Wires – UPB dimmer switches are installed exactly like regular dimmer switches. They connect to a home’s standard wiring. Since no new or special wiring is required, they work great in retrofit applications too. Affordable — UPB dimmer switches can be as affordable as high end non-communicating dimmers. When comparing costs of home upgrades (theater TV, remodeled bath or kitchen) adding lighting automation and control to a room or whole home provides a surprising improvement in quality of life at a comparably low cost. Simplicity – Adding lighting control can be as simple as plugging in dimming modules or replacing dimming switches Pre-Configured Series. Unlike radio frequency (RF) wireless switches, where reliability is proportional to the number of ‘mess-networked’ switches installed, UPB provides reliability and performance anywhere in the home without the need of repeaters. Peer to Peer – No host computer or central controller is necessary for single, point-to-point control or group (lighting scene) control. UPB is a no-host, peer to peer network. Interruption of power, or single point controller/repeater failure, will not affect a stand-alone UPB network. Two Way Communications – Hardware, software and protocol design allows for two-way communication in all products. Status can be confirmed with polling or automatically transmitted upon local/manual load changes. House Separation – Neighbors with UPB will not control each other’s lights. The UPB addressing scheme allows for 250 systems (houses) on each transformer and 250 devices on each system. It incorporates over 64,000 total addresses compared to 256 for conventional X-10. Interaction – UPB communication can be used in the presence of all X-10, CEBus, HomePlug or LonWorks compatible equipment with no interference between either. The UPB technology uses a completely different frequency range than any of the wide-band, narrow-band, or spread spectrum technologies. The physical method of UPB communication is entirely different than the modulation-demodulation techniques of all X-10, CEBus, or LonWorks. Higher Speed – 20 to 40 times the speed of X- 10 in terms of data transmitted. This is equivalent to over ten full commands per second. The average latency of command to action is less than 0.1 second.
* Reliability is defined as the percentage of transmitter/receiver pairs that correctly operate upon initial installation. The UPB test units are randomly installed in the environment typical of the target market. This market is defined as the single-family residential market in the US, homes with a median size of 2500 Sq, Ft. This environment is defined to be the existing base of homes, without any modifications, which means there should be no “fixing” the electrical system of the residence by adding couplers, repeaters or filtering |
UPB technology provides an inexpensive and reliable solution for residential and commercial powerline communications applications. While other powerline communication technologies exist, none compare to UPB in cost per node, functionality and reliability.
Digliving.com, really nice article, great overview of the lighting control home automation marketplace. Have tried several technologies, X-10, Insteon and Z-Wave.
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