Interactive media design transforms mass media into home-based personalized communications, audio, video, and information systems.
It sounds simple, and it really is, at least from the end user’s perspective. Interactive media design links every lifestyle element together into a central computer that is programmed with multiple subroutines containing embedded algorithms that regulate everything from climate control to home theater and home security to audio and video feeds. Interactive media design touch panels installed on walls and hand-held wireless remotes allow anyone familiar with a few basic command sequences to activate the most advanced electrical design and lighting technology available on today’s market.
No two of these systems are identical. We design interactive media systems custom to the client’s home environment, daily lifestyle, and personal desires. As we receive increasing numbers of calls daily from inquirers wanting to know more about our services, we decided to post a few of our question/answer sessions for quick reference.
Q: If media refers to broadcast information, how can you say home automation is actually a form of interactive media design?
A: Actually it is the other way around. Home automation is any computer-driven network that operates on a series of embedded commands that operate various home sub systems and network. Home automation itself is combination electrical design and computer programming. Interactive media design extends home automation control and interface to audio and video devices so that information can be sent back to the person and not just from the person.
Q: What elements of home media does interactive design tie together?
A: Essentially, interactive media unites the phone system, indoor television with outdoor security cameras and gate access control. We also tie our home automation section in with the HVAC system, allowing a homeowner to regulate the temperature even while traveling on the road. HVAC controls can be turned on and off at will whenever!
Q: Is interactive media designed provide updates, weather reports, and entertainment like traditional meda?
A: It can be. Our home theater customers enjoy one-touch control of music and video anytime they want to watch their favorite movie with background music. We have been asked on occasions to link computers and flat panels together, thus uniting TV and Internet for a client so they can watch satellite TV feeds through DSL or cable. This is rare, but we do get these requests at times.
Q: How extensively does interactive media design depend on the Internet? What if DSL goes down?
A: Interactive media does not depend on the Internet at all. The Internet is only one of many tools that clients can use to control the system. The central computer controls indoor and landscape lighting and the HVAC system. Homeowners can log into their home automation network and turn the lights on and off and control climate within the home while online. If your DSL or Cable goes down, your home automation system will still work, as the backbone of this system is the sophisticated electrical designing and programming, not the home computer.
Contact Illuminations Lighting Design at 713-863-1133 to learn more about interactive media design systems.
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