When the owners of this modern contempory house positioned in the middle of Kew had started building, they were told of the Noemon system by one of the tradesmen who had seen it at another job site.
The owners contacted Noemon and arranged to come and see another installation. When discussing with the owner; what they would like to get our of the automation system? They where a little unsure how the system could help them. Michael Hatzis one of the Directors of Noemon Australasia started the investigative process to find the owners needs for a system like this. The outcome was a home which has the ability to think for it self. The system was designed to control the lighting, heating and cooling, blinds, security system, large external Awning "shown in the photo in the closed position", pool fountain and lights, internal pond features " both pumps and lighting" and the mains water control. Now any system could do this, however not with the grace and simplicity of the Noemon system. To have all these subsystem components run independently is a very simple thing for any home automation system, however when we start integrating the functionality to work as one entity, then things start to get interesting. 

Michael goes on to explain. It's great to have all these subsystems controlled by a push of a button, however if they don't serve any real advantage apart from a good looking keypad on the wall "to keep up with the Jones" then you have just gone and blown your money. Where the Noemon system differs is in our ability to take today's environmental issues into hand and help make a difference in the way we live. Each room within the house is equipped with a Noemon PIR / Opto sensor; these allow Noemon to monitor both light levels and occupancy presence within the rooms. Take the main hallway as an example, by monitoring the LUX levels (luminance) the system makes a decision when the hall lights need to turn on. ie: if it is dark and there is movement in the hall, turn the lights on. Once the movement has stopped for longer than 3 minutes turn the lights off again. If the hall way is bright enough then don't turn the lights on. The home owner also has the ability to override this by pressing the hall light 'on' button. When this is done the lights will stay on for up to a preset time, in this case 4 hours. There are two heating and cooling systems within the house. Where both are controlled from one central keypad which also controls the lighting and automated blind for the kitchen area. The summer and winter mode allows the owners to switch between heating and cooling at there leisure. When the owners go to bed there is a house all 'off' button located beside their bed. This turns off all the lights, turns down the heater to 14C and closes the automated blinds and awnings. With the use of external light and temperature sensors the house makes passive heating and cooling decisions on its own. EG: if the outside temperature reading is below 20C and there is full sun then the awning automatically opens to allow the winter sun in. If it was summer and the outside temperature was above 20C then close the awnings to stop the hot summer sun entering. The alarm system is connected to all of the houses subsystems. The Noemon system monitors for movement within all the rooms of the house. If there has been no movement for 3 hours the system will automatically SMS the owners asking if anyone is home and if they want to turn the alarm on. When the alarm is turned on it will lower the awnings, close all the blinds, turn down the heater to 12C and turn off all pump and lights around the house. If the owners arrive home and its still day then when the alarm is deactivated it will open the awning and the blinds, where if it is night it will leave them closed and turn on assigned lights around the home and turn on the heater to 18c if it is below 16C outside. Leak detectors have been installed behind the dishwasher and clothes washer. If a water hose was to burst the system would automatically turn off the mains water and notify the owners via SMS that there has been a water leak and the mains water would been cut off. (Another feature of the house allows for the home owners accessible power point within the laundry to be turned off when the alarm is activated.) This allows the owners to keep using the washing machine and dryer when they leave the house; however turns off the power points where the iron is plugged into:- no more asking yourself "did I turn off the iron". Their is also the ability to turn the electric ovens off remotely, Lets say your have a roast in the oven and you need to go pick up the kids from school. You pick up the kids and on the way home you have a flat tyre: "Oh no the roast" you can SMS the house to turn 'off' the ovens, problem solved. The toilets have one switch. When turned on the lights will turn on if the lights are still on after 1 min the fan will also turn on, they will automatically turn off after 35 min. Oh and by the way, the quote for this job came in at a third of some of the other well known brands in the market place.
   
     Michael goes on to say, I have three children of my own, before I installed the Noemon system in my house, my children were constantly leaving lights on. I could be guaranteed that by 9 pm every light in the house was on. This doesn't happen anymore. I have reduced my electricity bill by 15%. and gas bill has reduced by about 30%. At times we would go to bed and forget to turn the heater down or we would be going out and forget to turn it off, now it is automatically set to 13C when we go to sleep and comes back  to 17C at 6 am till 9am.

The owners of this beach views double fronted home had started there renovations when they decided to engage Noemon to specify a system to control the split zone hydronic heating, security, Irrigation and lighting control.  Six DC-8R controllers were utilised to control switched lighting, power, irrigation and solenoids for the hydronic heating system. 12 x DD-1001 Dimmers were also installed for lighting control within bedrooms and entertaining / living areas.  The Noemon system was a perfect match for the owners requirements. The Noemon keypads provision an internal thermostat allowing for temperature sampling within every room in the house. Temperature settings are adjustable via the two display keypads (WP_VD). The owner can push a zone, view the temperature and adjust each room manually. An over all function has been added to set each room to the master temperature. This allows each room to automatically turn solenoids on and off as the master temperature is reached. A fail safe program was also added to monitor how many solenoids were closed and if the specified level has been exceeded to turn the hydronic boiler off. The system also incorporates a sleep function where the owners press an assigned button on there bed side wall pad and the heating is turned down to a specific temperature, the lights are dimmed down and the perimeter alarm sensors are activated. The alarm system is incorporated within the Noemon Controllers. When the owners leave for work in the morning and turn on the alarm, the unit will turn off the heating and all lights. If the owners were to leave without turning the alarm system on; it would monitor that there has been no movement in the house for 2 hours and no doors have opened or closed then notify the owners via SMS that the alarm is not on and it does not appear anyone is home, would you like to turn the alarm on?. The owners then have the option to turn the alarm on via there mobile phones.