LUXURY YOU NEVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE

Waking up in an AMX controlled home allows you to begin your day with an experience that elevates your family to a whole new level of comfort and convenience.

Your AMX touch panel enables the blinds and drapes in all of your bedrooms to open as the interior lights fade up slowly. Your children listen to their favorite music from each of their custom playlists; while you and your spouse watch your favorite morning news. Meanwhile, activated by motion sensors, the bathroom lights come on when you enter. And finally, at the touch of a button on your wall-mounted AMX touch panel, energizing music from your satellite radio fills the shower washing away any lingering drowsiness.

Downstairs your spouse has already opened all of the window treatments, turned on lights in appropriate rooms, and prompted the lawn sprinklers to water the lawn and landscape – all at the touch of a button and all while preparing breakfast.

As everyone leaves for work, school or to run errands, you press a button labeled “AWAY” on your wall mounted AMX touch panel. This action turns off all lights throughout your home, adjusts the temperature to 78 degrees, and arms the security system. What a wonderful way to start the day.

MANAGING YOUR HOME AND THE PLANET

As morning turns to afternoon, you can feel confident knowing your AMX system is continually monitoring your home to ensure maximum energy efficiency.

While at work, and using your smartphone, you close the drapes on the west side of your home to keep the interior cool or warm based on the season. This also ensures your HVAC system is running at a fraction of normal and that your furnishings are protected from the sun’s damaging rays.

The AMX ViewStat Thermostat is also a key component in managing your home’s energy efficiency and comfort levels. The always current, on-screen five-day weather forecast prepares you for any weather condition and enables you to manage your home’s temperature and energy usage remotely.

For the utmost in carbon footprint management, an AMX home can be configured to monitor a wide array of consumables including electricity, natural gas and water. On an annual, monthly, daily or even hourly basis, you are able to isolate energy usage and adjust accordingly by rooms or devices. It is reassuring to know your AMX system is always working to maximize our planet’s natural resources while keeping your home comfortable and energy efficient.

NO SUCH THING AS ‘AWAY’ FROM HOME

Having your home accessible remotely offers a level of unmatched convenience, comfort and confidence.

While at work, a notification on your smartphone informs you that the kids have arrived home from school. The home is cool and comfortable because an hour before you adjusted the thermostat from 78 to 75 degrees right from your office.

Logging in to your system for a second time, you take a quick peek around your house to see that the kids are safe and sound. Ah, the joys of AMX controlled security cameras.

For you, having the ability to remotely access your home from anywhere in the world using a smartphone, tablet or computer is the pinnacle of convenience. And, it helps that the user interface looks just like your home’s touch panels so there is no learning curve.

CONFIDENCE THAT COMES WITH PEACE OF MIND

Knowing your home is protected by a myriad of surveillance and security measures is a critical component of a fully integrated home.

As you arrive home from work, all you need is your smartphone or tablet to activate a sequence of events. Your entrance gate opens as a lighted path down the driveway welcomes you home. One of your garage doors opens as the security system is disabled.

Meanwhile, your family is in the backyard enjoying time in the pool. As you head upstairs to change, the doorbell rings just as you enter the master suite. No worries, from your bedside touch panel, you access the front door security camera to see that it’s your neighbor. With just a touch you access your AMX Metreau Entry Communicator and tell her that you will be down in a moment. She is delivering a batch of her famous double chocolate fudge brownies as a thank you for your recent donation to her favorite charity.

After joining your family at the pool, you reflect on how convenient the surveillance component of your AMX system has been over the years. When you were at work, there was nothing more comforting than receiving the text message letting you know the front door was opened, and that the kids had arrived home safely. There is nothing you would not do for your family.

AN ENVIRONMENT TO SAVOR

In the age of multi-tasking, the kitchen has become the central hub where family’s gather to catch up on the day’s events with your AMX touch panel at the center of it all.

AMX touch panels were designed for busy lifestyles. They’re perfect for use in the kitchen, the living room, the home theater or any room occupied by the family. The panoramic, ultra-wide screen opens up the control space to an extended range of applications and video windows to enable whole home control and automation as well as to serve as an entertainment interface. Whether you want to fill your home with music or watch a movie in any room and never have to worry about not being able to pick up where you left off, whole home audio and video management is a breeze when accessing your system and your media from an AMX touch panel.

Multi-tasking and whole home control are the cornerstones of an AMX control system and an AMX touch panel. While preparing dinner, you and your spouse can watch the local news, keep an eye on the kids and ultimately call everyone to dinner by pressing “Page All.” Whether you need to power down every inch of your home or view all of your surveillance cameras, your AMX system is simple to operate and smart enough to deliver instantaneous, automated directions – all with the slightest touch.

AMX is the ingredient that combines responsibility with recreation. Now if only we could convince your kids to eat their broccoli!

BRINGING HARMONY TO YOUR HOME

During dinner, your children continue to listen to the CD they were enjoying out at the pool. And after dinner you retire to the den to unwind to Satellite Radio.

Having whole home distributed audio as part of an integrated AMX home solution has diffused many teenaged arguments regarding missing CDs and hijacked iPods. You and your family can now listen to music anywhere in your home without having to take the music or the devices that play them with you. Your entire collection of recorded audio, video and live content is available from touch panels and keypads located throughout your home or wirelessly using smartphones and tablets.

Listening to AMX distributed audio is like stepping into the perfect acoustical dream. The music surrounds you with clarity and brilliance from every direction. Your AMX system is designed to give you the ability to play just about any audio source you desire in any room or zone of your home by means of CD, iPod, Satellite Radio, DVD, AM or FM radio and more. Touch panels, keypads and remote controls make selecting sources, changing tracks and adjusting volume, simple – the way enjoying music should be.

LIGHTS, CAMERA… MAGIC

Nothing is better than watching a movie in an AMX controlled home theater and having the ability to finish that movie in any room of your home, right where you left off.

As the family settles in one of your kids presses “WATCH MOVIE” on your AMX touch panel and a sequence of events begins: your projection screen lowers, the lights dim, in-floor path lighting illuminates, drapes close, and the movie begins. Unfortunately there isn’t a button to transport the brownies you left in the kitchen. Not yet, anyway!

AMX whole home distributed video gives your family the ability to watch the same movie or other video content in any room throughout your home. Your AMX system consolidates all related equipment in to one central location along with various source devices such as satellite receivers and Blu-ray players. The result is a clutter free home. And, if you’re watching the same movie, don’t worry your AMX system with SmartScale® will ensure each image on each display is as good as it can be.

Distributed video is particularly convenient when the kids’ friends have stopped by in the midst of a movie night. Suddenly it is not cool to be seen hanging out with “the parents,” so they scatter to their rooms where they continue to watch the movie, picking up right where they left off. Now this is modern luxury.

COMFORT BY DESIGN

It’s been a long day and your family will need to wake up early for a weekend trip – it’s comforting to know your AMX system is working behind the scenes so you can get some sleep.

Your AMX system enables you to sleep with peace of mind knowing all interior lights are turned off, exterior lights are on, all of the window treatments are closed and the alarm system is activated.

To further ensure worry free control and the utmost in convenience and energy efficiency throughout your home, AMX has partnered with Lutron to present Clear Connect™, a complete line of wireless light control solutions. Clear Connect offers a simple alternative for adding light control in locations where it may have previously been too difficult to install such as older homes and complex architecture. These solutions can be installed in virtually any location, without having to pull new wire. The Clear Connect™ system integrates with existing electrical infrastructure and works with almost any type of lighting to offer integrated light and AV control plus occupancy sensing. Best of all, whether you’re using an AMX touch panel, remote control or smart device, Clear Connect is easily controlled through any AMX interface.

INNOVATION ON THE ROAD, IN THE AIR, AND ON WATER

Our homes are where we spend the majority of our time, but what about when we’re away from home?

It’s a beautiful morning, perfect for a weekend road trip in your motor home. As you drive away, your spouse uses the onboard AMX touch panel to adjust your home’s thermostat and to lower the shades halfway on the motor home and turn off the interior lights. Yes, an AMX system can easily be configured to also control modes of private transportation such as RVs, jets, and yachts just as they manage your home.

While traveling, you can turn interior and exterior lights on and off using your smartphone, tablet, or your touch panel to simulate an occupied home. You can adjust the window treatments and the thermostat, just as you did while at work. You can even keep an eye on your property by tapping into your home’s security cameras.

As you glance through the rearview window you smile knowing that all will be well on the home front and on the road. Enjoy your vacation.