One of the basic automation system that can make a really smart investment is to install a smart light system that will detect the motion and turn on/off the lights. This will save energy for one and make your life a little more easy and comfortable and even smarter! But, the real trouble really kicks in when you decide to stay inside the room a little longer or you decide to stay awake. When the motion sensor doesn’t detect any motion for a long time then the systems turns off. This is a real problem and the smart home systems fails in those instances. The best alternative is to make the motion sensor detect objects to react accordingly to switch off the light in a series of dim downs. The smart light is not very smart when you have the light go off when you are reading a book or watching a movie. To get to the level of sophistication that is required to make a smart lighting system really go the right thing is a little ways down the road.
One alternative that is being suggested is to let the light system detect when a object, in this case the human on to its on stage and the human determines the length of the stay and turn the light off upon exit. That is not a very good alternative or can be called fully automated lighting system either. Smart lights do however save energy in the process. It can be made into a heat sensor then a optical sensor that we have at this present moment. Phillips is one company that leads when it comes to lighting home automation.
The other technology that is gaining momentum when it comes to light automation is the using solar as a way of powering your energy and also to regulate their operation. Solar energy is vital to conservation and energy manipulation.