What is a home automation system?A home automation system or intelligent (SI) shall include a communications network that allows the interconnection of a number of teams in order to obtain information from the built environment and building on it, perform actions on that environment. What makes the home automation system is to interconnect all automatic and decisions. So it is a mistake when you think that a home automation system is an automation system, because in many cases turns out to be a set of interconnected services themselves and others through a ¨ ¨ or central brain smart.

The home automation system integrates all the home services in one system, allowing access from:
- PC.
- Alphanumeric keypad.
- Touch-screen
- A cell phone, from anywhere in the world.
- Internet

On the PC are loaded software programming and system monitoring. The monitor displays the drawings of the building with the distribution of units as icons that change according to your state. These units can be controlled with the mouse from the monitor screen. Any event or task of the system event happens in the building, is on a log with date and time, having the option to print or store it in a database for subsequent statistics. In this way the user will have a full knowledge of what is happening at all times in the building.

Through the display of alphanumeric keypad with liquid crystal quartz, one can commandeer any electrical circuit, alarm, access control, cctv, etc.. or change system settings. Also receive messages via the display as an active alarm.