Home automation / integration is the ultimate blending of technology and house management. Home automation adds greater comfort, convenience, and capabilities to your home, as well as even saving you money. 

Heating, air-conditioning, and lighting can add up to high energy bills. Home automation controls these systems to help reduce your expenses. For example, it can sense when a room is no longer in use and turn off the lights and turn down the heat.

Say you wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. When you step onto the floor a pressure sensor under the carpet can transmit a signal to the system which then brings up the lights -- but perhaps to only 5%, enough to find your way, but not enough to disturb your still-sleeping spouse. After returning to bed, the pressure sensor detects you've returned, and the lights automatically fade to off.