What is Smart Home Automation?

Making Life Easier

From thermostats and intelligent security systems to automated window blinds, smart home devices help us manage our daily lives, creating more efficient and comfortable homes.

What’s best for your home? Consider these advantages to help you decide if Luxaflex® smart home blinds are the right choice for your lifestyle and home.

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Luxaflex® Roller Blinds with Smart Home Automation

How can Smart Home devices help you?

Home automation or ‘smart home’ is just a way of describing an environment where technology through apps and sensors, automates tasks in your home. Using a central control, app or system that mix voice commands, programs and timers, smart devices help make your daily activities more efficient.

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Leading Smart Home Systems

Companies like Google, Amazon, Samsung, Luxaflex®, Phillips Hue, Apple HomeKit*, offer smart home devices that connect to each other. This provides complete or partial home automation to enhance safety, energy saving, comfort and convenience in your home.

*Apple is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. HomeKit is a trademark of Apple Inc. Amazon and Alexa and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Android is a trademark of Google Inc

Why are Smart Blinds a Smart move?

Are you considering smart home blinds but not sure if you really need them? There's no doubt that home automation offers convenience and many other benefits. For instance, Luxaflex® Duette® Shades with our PowerView® Automation system can help keep your home cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and energy efficient all year round with instant smart home control.

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Smart home convenience

PowerView® Automation

Instantly raise, lower or adjust your Luxaflex® blinds with the PowerView® app on a smart device, remote control, wall switch or with your voice using Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant.

Best of all, PowerView® is available with all Luxaflex® made to measure window treatments including Roller, Venetian, Wood, Roman, Vertical and Twist® Roller Blinds, plus our exclusive Pirouette®, Silhouette®, Duette® and Plissé Shades.

Talk to you local Luxaflex® showroom to get advice on what's right for your home.

Luxaflex® Smart Home Roller Blinds

“Alexa, Close the Blinds”

Watching TV and want the room darker? No problem - connect PowerView® to your voice assistant and get instant control of your Luxaflex® window blinds.

Luxaflex® Silhouette® ClearView™ Shades with PowerView®

Designed for your Lifestyle

Schedule your Luxaflex® PowerView® blinds to move automatically - day or night - with personalised settings for each room or your entire home. All synchronised with how you live.

Make your home more energy efficient

Energy efficiency & UV protection

With PowerView® window blinds you can also help prevent heat loss in the winter, block harsh sunlight in the summer and protect your furnishings and flooring from damaging UV rays.

Connect to smart home thermostats

If you integrate your Luxaflex® PowerView® Hub with smart heating controls, your blinds will move in response to commands that determine if adjusting your blinds will help reduce your homes energy use.

Luxaflex® Silhouette® Shades with PowerView®

Enhanced Security

PowerView® can enhance security when you're away by automatically raising and lowering your blinds. This gives the appearance that someone is home, especially if you programme your blinds to move randomly, rather than at set times. PowerView® connects with leading smart home security systems.

Luxaflex® Smart Home Vertical Blinds

Preserve your Privacy

If you have large modern windows or sliding doors that face a garden, you might need to protect your privacy from onlookers or neighbours. By choosing PowerView® Vertical Blinds for example, you can automatically rotate the vanes 180 degrees to give you complete privacy.

Designed with safety in mind

Child Safety

Luxaflex® leads the market in child safe window treatments and operating systems. Our PowerView® Automation system provides you and your family with the ultimate in operating convenience and enhanced safety at the window.

Total home automation

Smart home technology is quickly evolving so homeowners are increasingly requesting automated window blinds. And now, with the ability to integrate Luxaflex® PowerView® blinds with leading smart home systems, you can automate almost anything in your home, from turning on your lights to locking your doors and closing your blinds.

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Want to learn more? Arrange a consultation at your local Luxaflex® retailer to browse our range of smart home blinds and get expert advice for your home and lifestyle.

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