What Does a Smart Home Cost?
Real-world pricing for smart home automation and control
As we bring advanced technology into our homes, the cost of a smart home can quickly add up, and the setup often leads to multiple switches and cluttered control points in each room. If you’re considering a new smart home build, renovation, or extension, you may be wondering what a smart home costs. Thanks to the high level of control over features and functions afforded by Loxone, now is the ideal time to explore more efficient options to ensure your smart home investment supports your lifestyle for years to come.
Loxone offers a cost-effective, simplified approach to smart home automation, letting you add enhanced lighting, room-by-room climate control, and more without the need for endless switches or exploding price tags. Discover how Loxone can help you manage the cost of a smart home while keeping it functional, sleek, and easy to control — read on to find out more!
What Does a Smart Home Cost?
Real-world pricing for smart home automation and control
As we bring advanced technology into our homes, the cost of a smart home can quickly add up, and the setup often leads to multiple switches and cluttered control points in each room. If you’re considering a new smart home build, renovation, or extension, you may be wondering what a smart home costs. Thanks to the high level of control over features and functions afforded by Loxone, now is the ideal time to explore more efficient options to ensure your smart home investment supports your lifestyle for years to come.
Loxone offers a cost-effective, simplified approach to smart home automation, letting you add enhanced lighting, room-by-room climate control, and more without the need for endless switches or exploding price tags. Discover how Loxone can help you manage the cost of a smart home while keeping it functional, sleek, and easy to control — read on to find out more!
Real Talk; What Does a Smart Home Cost??
The possibilities for smart home automation from Loxone are almost infinite. When it comes to your home, you could have as much or as little home automation as you’d like, giving you control over how much or how little your smart home costs. The functionality that a Loxone solution can offer is based on the features and functions you require. Speaking with a Loxone installer will help you decide on what feature and functions matter most to you, and how that will effect the cost of your smart home.
Whether you’re building your dream home or upgrading an existing one, the multitude of “smart” options available to you can be overwhelming. To simplify your planning process – and help you determine the cost of your smart home project – we’re breaking down the essential solutions you need and providing cost estimates for each.
Real Talk; What Does a Smart Home Cost??
The possibilities for smart home automation from Loxone are almost infinite. When it comes to your home, you could have as much or as little home automation as you’d like, giving you control over how much or how little your smart home costs. The functionality that a Loxone solution can offer is based on the features and functions you require. Speaking with a Loxone installer will help you decide on what feature and functions matter most to you, and how that will effect the cost of your smart home.
Starter
Elevated
Starter
Starting at
$4,300.
30+ features
Make everyday living smarter
with impressive features
Option 1
Starter
Starting at
$4,300.
30+ features
Make everyday living smarter
with impressive features
Option 2
Elevated
Starting at
$7,700.
50+ features
Advanced technology puts
your lifestyle front and center
Option 2
Elevated
Starting at
$7,700.
50+ features
Advanced technology puts your lifestyle front and center
Option 3
Premium
Starting at
$18,000.
70+ features
Experience the highest level of all-around living comfort
Option 3
Premium
Starting at
$18,000.
70+ features
Experience the highest level of all-around living comfort
Lighting
- Motion-based lighting
- The lighting switches off automatically when it is not needed
- Natural light is taken into account
- Lights can simulate presence even when no one is there
- Turn off all lights with one switch when leaving home or going to bed
- Central monitoring and control of lights in the app
- Light stays on when a noise is detected in the room
Central functions
- Night mode
- Away mode
- House-off mode
- Personalized operating modes
- Idle mode
AAL – Ambient Assisted Living
- Fall detection
- Visual reminders
- Recognition of behavior changes
- Passive monitoring
Energy
- Standby Killer
- Energy statistics
- Energy manager
- Load manager
Security
- Presence-based burglar alarm
- Safety day and night
- Alerts in the app
- Flashing lights when the burglar alarm is activated
- Delayed arming
- Multi-stage alarm
- Logs (historical data)
- Optional panic button
- Central monitoring and control of the alarm in the app
Other
- Free app control for all members of the family
- Hot water scheduling (boiler control)
- System status notifications
- Simple, uniform switches
- Possibility to create own automatic rules
- Possibility to create your own sequences
- Secure app connection with the ability to connect remotely
- Miele@home (compatible appliances)
- Home Connect (compatible appliances)
- Battery control
Heating
- Temperature and humidity control
- Individual room control
- Intelligent learning
- Temperature extension based on presence in the room
- Frost protection
- Statistics in the app
- Weekly schedule with integration into your own calendar
- Optional maintenance reminders
- Notification of changes to the system
- Central monitoring and heating management in the app
Shading
- Control of blinds via buttons and app
- Automatic shading based on sun position and temperature
- Option to select between optimal brightness or optimal cooling
- Natural light wake-up
- Automated privacy protection depending on day/time
- Reactivation when leaving the room or out of the house
- Storm protection
- Frost protection
Multiroom Audio
- Play music in multiple rooms
- Music follows you through the home
- Control Music from Switch or App
- Play predefined event-based messages
- Record your own announcements
- Stream audio from Spotify & Tunein
- Play from your personal music selection
- Support for Apple Airplay
- Wake up to your favorite playlist
Central functions
- Night mode
- Away mode
- House-off mode
- Personalized operating modes
- Idle mode
Security
- Set an alarm to sound on ALL speakers at once, deterring burglars
Lighting
- Dimmable lighting in multiple rooms
- Night Mode lighting
- Undercounter LED lighting in the kitchen
Other
- Smart bedside alarm clock with lighting control
Multiroom Audio/Multimedia
- Play music even more rooms
- Additional Speakers in kitchen & living room
- Play notifications when you have a visitor
- Option to pause music when TV is turned on
- Turn off TV from selected switches
- Control TV from the Loxone App
- TV can turn on/off to simulate presence
Other
- Additional smart bedside alarm clock with lighting control
Lighting
- Colored, Dimmable lighting in every room
- Colored, Dimmable LED cabinet lighting in kitchen
- Colored, Dimmable pendant lighting in kitchen
- Automatic porch lighting
- Option to have lights flash when doorbell is pressed
Access
- HD video intercom
- Connect to intercom via Loxone App when away
- Automatic answering message
- Access and recent visitor history
- App notification when doorbell is rung
- Keypad with fob reader to disarm burglar alarm
Features Glossary
Features Glossary
Lighting
Lights will come on when a Presence Sensor detects motion.
Lights can mimic occupancy when you’re out
As a deterrent, lights in your home turn on and off periodically making it seem like someone is at home.
Lights turn off automatically when not needed
Depending on the room, lights will turn off if no motion has been detected for a set period of time.
Conveniently switch off all lights from one switch when leaving your home
You’ll never have to worry about lights being left on again. You can switch off all the lights in your house using the switch by your front door as you leave.
Factors in natural light levels
If a room is already filled with enough natural light the lights in that room will not turn on with motion to save energy.
Central monitoring and control of lighting in the app
You can conveniently check the app to see if lights are on or off and even control them whether you’re at home or not.
Lights stay on if noise is detected in that room
If you are watching the TV in the living room, for example, the noise from this will keep the lights on even if no motion has been detected.
Dimmable lighting
The brightness levels of lights with this feature can either be adjusted in the app or set levels can be selected from a switch.
Night Mode lighting
When motion is detected, in rooms with dimmable lighting during the night, only low levels of lighting will be brought on so you’re not dazzled.
Option for automatic porch lighting
Controls are made available for two outside lights – that you can specify separately.
Undercounter/cabinet LED lighting
Additional task lighting available in selected rooms which can be controlled separately to the main lighting in that room.
Option for lights to flash when doorbell is pressed
You can choose to have the lights in specific rooms flash subtly when the doorbell is pressed.
Coloured lighting
This option of lighting can be set to almost any colour you can think of. You can select predefined colours from the switch in that room or enjoy even more control from the app.
Control for a living room reading lamp
This includes a smart plug to control a standalone lamp that you can specify separately.
Heating & Cooling
The temperature and humidity level in each room is measured with the built-in sensors in each switch.
Temperature is maintained when you’re still in the room
If you are still in a room and the heating or cooling is scheduled to turn off, the temperature will be maintained for as long as motion is detected.
Individual room control
You can set a suitable comfortable temperature for each room in your home.
Frost Protection
Your heating system ensures the temperature in any room never drops below a set point.
Intelligent learning
Your heating system will learn how long it takes to reach the temperature that you have set for each room to ensure rooms are always the right temperature at the right time.
Statistics in the app
You can monitor the usage and performance of the heating throughout your home.
Weekly schedule with holiday integration and custom calendar entries
More than just a Monday to Sunday timer, you can customise exactly when the heating should be on or off – taking into account school & public holidays and when you’re returning from vacation.
Optional maintenance reminders
Depending on your heat source you can be reminded of required annual maintenance, like the changing of filters, etc.
Notifications of changes to the system
You can be notified should the system detect any unusual behaviour.
Central monitoring and control of heating and cooling in the app
At a glance, you can see the current temperature in each room and whether the heating is on in those rooms. You can also edit the heating schedule and define the various temperature set points.
Security
The burglar alarm is triggered if motion is detected inside your home.
Easy day and night arming options
Your burglar alarm can monitor different motion sensors – for example upstairs or downstairs – based on whether you’re arming the burglar alarm during the day while everyone is out or at night when everyone is asleep.
App notifications when something is amiss
If the burglar alarm is triggered you will get a notification via the app – letting you know which sensor has triggered.
Lights can flash throughout your home when burglar alarm is triggered
You can choose to have the lights in your home linked to the burglar alarm so that they flash as a deterrent during a potential break-in.
Delayed arming feature
You can specify a set number of seconds before the alarm is armed giving you enough time to leave your home after setting the alarm.
Multi-staged alarm
If your alarm is triggered, you will first receive a notification. Depending on the additional features in your smart home the next stages can include visual and audible elements.
History logs
In the app, you can view a recent history of the exact sensors that had led to the burglar alarm being triggered and at what time this happened.
Optional panic buttons
You can choose to include a feature whereby a long press on chosen switches can send a panic notification to other members of the household.
Central monitoring and control of burglar alarm in the app
For peace of mind, whether you are at home or not you can view the status of your burglar alarm, as well as set or unset it from the app.
All speakers will sound if burglar alarm is triggered
You can choose to have any or all of the multiroom speakers in your home play an alarm siren sound, or a specific audio file of your choosing, if the burglar alarm is triggered.
Multiroom Audio
Play and control the music in each room with speakers installed in it.
Start music automatically when entering a room
You can choose to have music automatically start to play as you enter a room. You can customize which music starts to play, at what volume and at what time of the day this should happen for each room.
Control music from the switch
You can conveniently play & pause, control the volume and even change what’s playing from the switch in that room.
Central control of music in the app
The app gives you complete control over what you want to play in each room. You can see at a glance which rooms music is playing in, change what’s playing and adjust the volume.
Option to play predefined messages based on events in your home
Predefined messages and reminders that you have set can play through speakers in chosen rooms based on conditions such as time and date.
Record your own announcements to play in different rooms
In the app, you can record a quick voice note and choose to play it over the speakers in specific rooms.
Stream audio from Spotify & TuneIn
With support for Spotify & TuneIn, you can choose any music, radio station, etc. from these services to play in your chosen rooms.
Play from your personal music collections
Music saved on a hard drive or USB stick can be played through the speakers in a chosen room.
Support for Apple AirPlay
With AirPlay technology, you can play music from your iPhone, iPad or Mac through the speakers in a chosen room.
Option to have your favorite playlist wake you up the morning
You can have music or a radio station gradually start to play at a specific time in the morning to wake you up.
Set individual music favorites in each room
Depending on the room, you can choose to have a selection of your favorite music playlists or radio stations conveniently available to select from the switch in that room.
Conveniently switch off audio from one switch when leaving your home
When leaving your home, you can turn off all music playing in any of the rooms from the switch by the front door.
Speakers play a notification when you have a visitor
When someone presses the doorbell, a chime will play in the rooms with speakers. If music is already playing in a room, it will be paused for the chime to play and then the music will resume.
Option to automatically stop music in the living room when the TV is turned on
When you turn on your TV (compatible models) in the living room from the remote control, any music playing in the room the music will be stopped automatically.
Turn off the TV from selected switches
Turning the lights off in the living room from the switch in that room can also turn off the TV (compatible models). This also works when turning off all of the lights in your home from the switch by your front door.
Control your TV from the Loxone App
Compatible TVs can be controlled using the app on a smartphone or tablet.
TV can turn on & off to mimic occupancy when you’re on holiday
As a deterrent, compatible TVs can be turned on for a set amount of time to mimic a routine – making it seem like someone is at home.
Access
With the app, on a smartphone or tablet, you will be able to see who is at your front door. You will also be able to answer the intercom to speak with your visitor.
Connect to your intercom even when you’re not at home from the app
You can see and speak with anyone at your front door via the app even when you’re not at home.
Answering message
If you’re not available to personally answer the intercom, you can use the app to choose to play a predefined message through the intercom based on who is at your front door.
Access and recent visitor history in the app
You can choose to have your intercom take a photo when someone presses your doorbell. From the app, you can view a recent history of your visitors as well as a log of when the keypad was used.
App notifications when someone rings the doorbell
Whether you are at home or not, you will be notified that someone is at your front door via the app.
Keypad with fob reader to disarm burglar alarm
Each member of the household can conveniently disarm the burglar alarm using either a unique pincode or a secure fob.
Central Functions
The features in your smart home can perform differently at night, for example lower levels of lighting, audio playing at lower volumes, the doorbell being muted and only certain sensors being monitored by the burglar alarm. This can be activated from a bedside switch or the app.
All Out Mode
The features in your smart home can perform differently when you’re all out for the day. This includes turning off all lighting and music, following a set heating schedule and arming the full burglar alarm. This can be activated from a switch in your hallway or from the app.
Room Off
The last person leaving a room can conveniently turn off all lighting and music with a simple double-tap on a switch in that room.
Away Mode
The features in your smart home can perform differently when you are away for an extended period of time, such as on vacation. This includes following a holiday heating schedule with Frost Protection, mimicking presence and setting the full burglar alarm. This can be activated from within the app.
Operating Modes
You can choose to have additional operating modes set up based on the features you have chosen to have in your smart home. This can include an entertaining mode or vacation mode; whereby the lighting, heating and security perform differently.
Other
There is no limit to how many family members can download the free app. Speak to your Loxone installer about creating logins for each member of the household.
Hot water scheduling
You can conveniently set a schedule for your hot water so you always have it when you need it – without wasting energy.
Option to create your own automatic rules
In the app you can create your own automation from the features you’ve chosen to have in your home.
Option to create your own sequences
If you find that you are often using the same features in the app in one go, you can create your own sequence to trigger these actions together.
System Status messages
Similar to the lights on the dashboard in your car, the app will show you important information about your system.
Simple, unified switches
Interacting with the features in your home should not be complicated. A Touch Pure switch in each room offers intuitive and consistent ease of use for the whole family and any visitors.
Secure app connection, event when you‘re not home
To protect your data and privacy, the Loxone app’s communication with your home is encrypted. You can also choose to be able to connect to your home when you’re out.
Smart bedside alarm clock with lighting control
This standalone device can be placed next to your bed giving you another familiar point of control for the features in your home. It includes a built-in alarm clock and color-changing light.
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