The following items are measured:

• Total consumption of GAS, WATER and ELECTRICITY via pulse counters
• The energy consumption of 4 specific loops, with devices that consume a lot of electricity (max. 20A): hob, washing machine, dryer and microwave
• Theoretical calculation of the energy consumption of all connected outlets
• Energy dashboard displaying:
  • Electricity consumption per user in € and kWh
  • Water consumption
  • Gas consumption (if applicable)
  • Graphs showing the consumption (total/per user) for a specific time period

In an intelligent home, the various systems (lighting, heating, electrical devices, etc.) are linked together and communicate with each other. This gives residents a greater sense of comfort. For example, when sitting in your car, with a single action, you can open the garage door using the remote control, turn on a lighting that leads from the garage up to the entrance, switch the heating to comfort mode and switch on the lights in the living room. Or, you can operate the electric blinds and adjust the dimmable ambient light, while at the same time switching off unnecessary devices from the comfort of your couch. Access control allows you to determine who is able to enter and at what times (family, staff, cleaning lady, home help, etc.).

Unlike for many other intelligent systems, IPBuilding believes that comfort includes ensuring that the software is extremely easy to use. Creating an atmosphere or assigning a function to a push button is child’s play. The newly-created atmosphere will also be displayed on the smartphone or tablet app immediately and automatically.

“Extra comfort and especially energy-saving”

IPBuilding ensures comfort and efficient energy management. One example is the integrated zone heating system where smart temperature sensors in the living room, bedroom and bathroom are connected to the UTP Cat 6 bus wiring. These sensors continuously measure the temperature in these rooms. The sensors are incorporated into the standard switches. The easy-to-use weekly program can be used to program the desired comfortable temperature per day and at certain times. The desired temperatures need to be set once per space, but can be changed at any time.

The temperatures are also automatically adjusted depending on whether there is someone in the room, and taking into account day and night times. For example, a “Boost” temperature increase to 22 °C can easily be activated for 60 minutes using the central touchscreen.

The heating can also be operated remotely by the resident. This is useful if you return after a holiday period or come home sooner than expected. Family members and healthcare providers can also change the settings remotely if the resident is no longer able to do so.

 

“Immediately contact healthcare providers in case of emergency”

In a care setting or assisted living home, having an intelligent emergency call system is vital. IPBuilding’s ICE Call emergency call system is the most complete emergency call system on the market.

When pressing the button (integrated on the touch screen or via the wireless wristband or necklace or wireless red button), a digital connection is established, enabling you to speak with and listen to an authorised healthcare provider. This healthcare provider or dispatcher also immediately knows from where in the building the call was placed.

In addition, the smart assisted living home will also:

• Switch on all of the lighting
• Turn off the stove
• Switch off the TV (to ensure optimum communication with the remote person)
• Possibly raise the screens
• Increase the underfloor heating

Not stigmatising
Users do have need for the alarm feature, but they do not want to have a stigmatising product in the house. Therefore, IPBuilding integrated the red button on the touch screen, thus eliminating the need for an old-fashioned white/red call system on the wall.

Accessible anywhere
Call phones can also be located outside of the homes (common areas, corridors, bathrooms, cellar, etc.) of the building, enabling wireless calls from residents to be routed to the healthcare provider from anywhere in the building.

Speech ánd Image = videophones
If the assisted living home is equipped with the video monitoring package (7.2), with integrated IP cameras, live images are immediately sent to the healthcare provider when a call is placed.

Life-long housing
The ICE Call emergency call system can always be added to an existing Smart Living house or apartment. That way, residents have a home they can enjoy for the rest of their lives.

 

“For a healthy living and working environment”

An unhealthy inside climate can cause breathing problems, a dry throat, headaches, allergies, loss of concentration, lack of energy or sleepiness. Too much moisture in the house can in turn create odors, condensation and mildew. That is why it is extremely important to ventilate your home thoroughly and on a regular basis.

Continuous and controlled ventilation is the only effective way to ensure a healthy indoor climate.
Ventilation systems can be controlled via the corresponding 3-way switch (absent, health and boost) or other built-in intelligent system. However, experience shows that this position switch is hardly ever used.

IPBuilding takes over the purpose of this switch. Controlling the ventilation system’s three settings is fully automated, according to the programs “present”, “absent”, “day” and “night”. Also, when cooking, visiting the bathroom or toilet, the ventilation system will automatically run in boost mode for a given period.

 

“Multifunctional purpose”

The smart sensors are multifunctional.

In the “present” setting, the sensors are used to:

• turn the lights on and off
• boost the ventilation
• activate the heating
• switch on the audio
• switch controllable outlets on and off

Light and time controls can be linked to sensors. For example, to ensure a sensor is only active if it is dark outside or between certain times.

In the “absent” setting, the sensor is used as an alarm sensor. As soon as someone is detected, the alarm atmosphere will be activated.

Furthermore, the sensor can also be used to map unusual behaviour.

As a standard, 1 sensor is included (bathroom).

You know the feeling. You come home at night and turn on the lights, close the curtains, put the heating up and switch on the television, and so on. A lot of actions that IPBuilding groups into ‘atmospheres’.

For example, you can have a ‘welcome’ atmosphere that is triggered automatically when you enter your home. Or a ‘Watching TV’ atmosphere, which immediately switches off the lights, turns on the TV and provides atmospheric lighting next to the TV. Other popular atmospheres are ‘going to bed’, ‘reading a book’ and of course ‘switch everything off’ for when you leave your home. You can control the atmospheres yourself and IPBuilding’s management platform enables you to easily add a new atmosphere.

“Light and heat from the sun according to your own wishes”

By using climate sensors and timers, all electric sunscreens (blinds, curtains, screens) will independently and automatically be raised or lowered, based on the climate outside and inside, the position of the sun and the time setting.

Using push buttons or the central touch screen, residents can determine the position of the screens at all times. If the weather conditions are bad, the screens are automatically raised, to avoid damage.

One weather station is installed per site. All assisted-living homes are connected to the local weather station. Each assisted-living home is fitted with a central touch screen. The current weather and weather forecasts can be consulted.

“Integration with care and service platforms”

The touch screen also enables links to be created with care and/or services platforms. Third-party applications will be shown directly on the touch screen, and residents, healthcare providers or family members can use this software straight away.

 

Today Cubigo, Digitale Woonassistent, Care Solutions and Smart Assist can be integrated on the touch screen. Upon request, other applications can also be integrated.

IPBuilding enables you to listen to your favorite music via Spotify, internet radio or from a hard drive (NAS). The audio input can also be used to connect an external source (e.g. cd player, record player, etc.) or an Apple Airport (or similar device) to each amplifier, to stream music directly from a mobile device.

This system can be operated via touch screens, push buttons, a tablet or smartphone. By default, there are 4 zones with 2 speakers per zone, in stereo and multi-source. There is also the possibility to expand the system to 8, 12 or 16 zones and up to 4 external amplifiers (Bose, Yamaha, B&W, Denon, etc.) can be linked up, via the outputs on the Multimedia server.