Installation
Starts small wherever you'd like, and grow as you deem necessary
You decide where to start installing the room-services, and you can grow the system as you deem necessary. Most will start from the living room, so that the room-manager can lights up the room and warm the house as you return from work. Other rooms can then benefit from the heating regulation and the energy saving just by installing PoSwitch behind each radiator.
In the living room
Install the room manager close to where you'd stay most of the time, like next to the sofa, on the coffée table, or even next to the TV. You can install one Liswitch for the main lighting, and another one for the night lamp. When you're returning from work, the room manager will detect you entering the room, turns on the lights, and regulate the temperature. For the living room, you can set lower temperature for the night mode, to save energy when everybody has left for the night. For dependent rooms without room-manager, you can link the heater to the living room manager, and set the heating level individually on each PoSwitch setting. (The room manager's AutoHeating application only control the temperature in the living room)
In the bedrooms
It's best to install one room manager for each bedroom. The best place would be on the bed side table, or on the wall just above the headboard, so that the room-manager can detect the occupant sleeping. Moreover, it is nice to have access to every lamps and appliances without having to leave the bed. When you move to sleep mode (either manually or by automatic sleep detection), the room manager will tell other room manager around the house to move to night mode. You can install LiSwitch on each bedside lamp and connect them to the "sunrise simulator", and one for the main lamp connected to the "morning-time" function. If the bedroom has it's own bathroom, it would be interesting to connect the towel-heater with a PoSwitch, and connect it to the "preheat-function". Do you want to turn off bathroom lights without getting off from bed? then just add LiSwitch on it.
Hotel, Bed & Breakfast, Mountain Cottages,
Install the room manager in hotel bedroom or in mountain cottages to safe energy while the clients are away. Lamps, shades and others are accessible from the bedside, so you save also on wiring and renovation cost. Your client will also appreciate the warm welcome that Daisy brings on their return.
KitchenWhen you have you hands full with dishes, it's nice to have one helping hand to turn on the lights. And the kitchen cabinet lightings, wouldn't it be nice to see it on when you enter the kitchen? In the morning, you can warm the kitchen as well before the MorningCall rings, so that you can have breakfast peacefully 
In the officeNext to the computer, the room manager detects when it's getting to dark and turns on the light while you continue working. So you can mind for more important things while the room-manager takes care of the heating and lighting, and more particularly to turn off the heaters when you leave the office!!
And back to the EntranceIf your living room is quite large, the room manager there might not detect you entering in the main door. Add a room-manager in the entrance, to welcome you with the entrance lights, while you're scrambling with the groceries and keys and letters. The entrance room-manager will also tell other room manager of your arrival so they can start warming up the whole house.
Installation is easy, and the system can grow as you deem necessary.
- Room managers and other small modules simply plug into a wall outlet.
- Only the PoSwitch needs to be installed in place of a cable exit behind the radiator.
- No extra wiring, no renovation works, the existing electrical installation can be used.
- Whole house coverage. The room manager and the smaller modules talks to each other using powerline networking. Therefore all electrical appliances can be controlled individually.
- Safety fallback! With room service system, your existing electrical wiring is still operational.
- Robust distributed system. Each room-manager is an independent unit, as the room services system is a distributed system. There's no central control unit, so failure in one room does not lead to another.
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