This holiday home overlooks Cape Cod Bay in the USA. It was fitted with an
IDRATEK system primarily for security and remote monitoring and control
purposes, but as is common to our experiences soon expanded to include other
functions.
 
As a holiday let it was important to our client that the property could be
monitored remotely when unoccupied and also that well controlled heating

would not only provide extra efficiency and comfort during occupancy, but also

prevent frost damage during cold winter spells.The ability to bring heating and
hot water out of fallback mode remotely meant that the house was welcoming

upon arrival - with minimal energy waste.

 
During the project a number of interesting additional features were integrated.
Radio controlled motorised door locks operated via an IDRATEK module
allowed our client to unlock selected doors for guests remotely either via the
Internet or his mobile phone. In addition, a watt-hour meter readable via an
IDRATEK digital input module would allow easy real time monitoring of electrical
power consumption. An oil level sensor interfaced via an IDRATEK analogue
  input module would provide a linear measure of remaining fuel for the heating system and provide ample warning
  of the need for refill. This also offers an accurately logged measure of fuel consumption throughout the weeks.
   
  Taking advantage of Cortex's rich camera support, several cameras were installed both for internal and external
  views. These provided our client with visual peace of mind. However even without the cameras, daily scheduled
  and event based e-mail/phone reports with data from security sensors, smoke and CO sensors, temperature
  sensors and so on would soon raise any alerts.
   
 
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  COST GUIDE:
 
£1,400
 
(IDRATEK components only)