Home Automation vs Smart Home Control: What’s The Difference Anyway?

Dive into this home automation comparison to discover how to enjoy the best living experience!

You’ll often hear the terms smart home control and home automation used interchangeably. While both work together to enhance everyday living, there is a key difference. 

Smart home control refers to the ecosystem of connected devices managed by a central controller. At Argenta, we partner with Control4, a leader in smart home living. Because they’re an open platform, they integrate with nearly every device, and they make managing your smart home a seamless experience. 

A home automation system, on the other hand, encompasses this technology while referring to the automated aspects. By learning your lifestyle, we program your home to respond automatically, creating the perfect environment effortlessly. So, in a way, there’s no comparison between them. If you want to have the most convenient, luxurious, and enjoyable living experience, integrating the strengths of both technologies is key.

Let’s explore what it’s like to live in a smart home programmed for success in Salt Lake City, UT.

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Managing Your Smart Home

At home, you can manage your smart home from a touchscreen, keypad, remote, mobile device, or voice command. While away, pull up an app and gain complete access. While today’s technology is nearly limitless, these represent a few connected devices. 

• Lighting and Shades: Manage daylight and privacy and transform your lighting. Today’s natural light setting synchronizes your lighting to mirror the changing light outdoors. Full-spectrum LED lighting provides limitless colors, letting light take center stage in your home’s design.
• Climate: Manage your HVAC system, fans, humidity, and air quality.
• Security: From door locks to security cameras, smart alarms, garage doors, gates, and security lighting, every aspect of protecting your home can be controlled by a user-friendly device.
• Entertainment: Control4 integrates with nearly every AV device, including TVs, sound systems, home theaters, and media rooms. 

In addition to one-touch control, we can program scenes that simultaneously manage multiple devices. Whether entertaining, reading, exercising, cooking, or enjoying a party by the pool, tapping a button creates the perfect setting. 

 

The Next Level: Home Automation

As the name implies, home automation “automates” your smart home to seamlessly create the perfect environment throughout the day. It streamlines daily tasks and carries out actions based on a schedule or predefined circumstances. Here are a few examples of the unlimited options:

• When the sun rises above the horizon: Your smart home raises the shades, adjusts the thermostat, makes the coffee, turns on the bathroom lights to a soft golden hue, and streams a pre-chosen playlist.
• When you leave for the day: It lowers the shades, turns off the lights and music, adjusts the thermostat to an eco-setting, locks the doors, and activates your security system.
• When you pull into the driveway: The garage door opens, the landscape lights illuminate, the front door unlocks, the thermostat switches to standard settings, and a trail of lights brightens from the door to the kitchen. 

 

Now, think about everything your home can do to create the perfect environment for all of life’s activities. That requires a lot of programming! Luckily, the experts at Argenta can help you design, engineer, install, and program customized, sophisticated technology that’s easy to use and delivers unmatched luxury living. 

After the whole setup is complete, we serve as your concierge-level technology advisor, providing lifelong service and supporting you as technology advances and your needs change. To learn more about our home automation systems or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact Argenta today!