Bioclimatic Façades responds to the extremes of external environmental conditions by controlling heat loss and gain, managing daylight and enhancing the quality of the indoor environment.
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Daylight Management
Maximise use of natural daylight to ensure greater visual comfort, reduce the need for artificial lighting, lowering energy consumption and operating costs.
Heating and cooling strategies
Dynamic Insulation™ provides better control of thermal exchanges, enhancing energy efficiency and maintaining thermal comfort.
Natural Ventilation
Automatic window controls reduce the air conditioning bill, and create a healthier and more productive working environment.
Somfy’s commercial solutions can be used in various areas of the building: the entire or part of the façade <Facade Management>, in a specific room <Local controls> or on a single window <Motorisation>.
Facade Management Systems
Centralized controls of shading devices are processed through the Somfy bus lines or open protocols.
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Local controls
Somfy has a wide range of controls that allow each user to control their own shading devices, whatever the technology may be.
Motorisation of openings & closures
Somfy provides motors for all the major applications used in commercial buildings today.
Somfy’s solutions for residential buildings can be applied to the whole house <Home Automation>, a specific room <Local controls & automatic systems>, or to a single window <Motorisation>.
Home Automation
Somfy has solutions to power and move all openings in the house <Home Motion by Somfy>. They can be operated alongside other systems as well, such as lighting <Interoperable solutions>.
Local controls & automatic systems
Somfy has a wide range of controls and automatic devices. The choice of technology depends on the building configuration, its usage and the occupants' way of living.
Motorisation of openings & closures
Somfy provides motors for all the major applications used in residential buildings today.
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Partnership: Somfy and Philips
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Residential building solutions
Home Automation
Home Automation is the centralized control of all kind of openings in and around the house, security systems, lighting or Audio/Video system... With Radio Technology Somfy® products, the control of openings is done exclusively with Somfy products. With Somfy interoperable solutions, openings are controlled together with other systems from other manufacturers.
Local controls & automatic systems
Controls are used to control the motors that raise, lower, open, close or direct the equipment. There are 2 types of control units: wall-mounted or remote control units. Automatic systems are used to plan or delegate opening and closing functions: to plan using the programming function, to delegate with sensors, to let the house react intelligently to climate variations: wind, sun, temprature, rain...
Motorisation
Whichever the end product may be (indoor or outdoor shading devices, roller shutters, projection screen…), Somfy will have the matching motor with the exact specifications to fit perfectly to it.