Energy Saving

Energy saving has top priority in the "Counter Entropy"-house. In our apps, the user gets a feedback about the current consumption and possible energy saving potentials. With continuous and detailed measurements of energy consumption and production it can be recognized when it is energetic efficient to use the dish washer, cut of completely an appliance which uses standby energy or turn of the light. But not only to electric topics is paid attention, also to outside conditions like temperature or solar radiation or the current thermal energy in the different water tanks. In order that the user can recognize the potentials and save energy with them, several forms of visualization are developed. For example a "green leaf" indicates a currently efficient running home automation and a "dot system" the relation of energy consumption und production.

To minimize the amount of appliances used for the home automation an iMac is used as central computer. It is the home automation server, multimedia server, television, dvd player and interface between the PLC and the iPad/iPhone app and the kinect at once. So the energy consumption of several appliances is reduced on the iMac which can adapt its consumption to the current needs and saves space at the same time.