Poking Around The Home

Food, clothing and shelter are basic needs for all the human beings. Make your shelter better maintaining the temperature, a human body required for better survival. All homes contain sources of heat and they combine to heat up your house. Common sources of heat include appliances, electronic devices, and lights. Even small transformers for answering machines produce a small quantity of waste heat in your home. Cooling a home by tapping into natural services such as cool breezes, shade, and cool nighttime air, paying attention to internal heat gain is in the mind of every head of the family.

What are sensors?
Sensors are devices that measure and detect changes in signals, environments and chemical activities. There are many different types of sensors utilized by businesses and homes. The different types of sensors include temperature sensors, electrical sensors, electromagnetic sensors, mechanical sensors and chemical sensors. Sensors are usually electronic devices and are often used to regulate heat, humidity, magnetism, chemical levels, sterilization and electrical currents. Here we are dealing with the sensors that maintain temperature in your home and offices.
Temperature sensors
Temperature sensors are the most common type of sensors used for keeping products like electrical components at specified temperatures. These sensors are also used for medical purposes. Temperature sensors catch the increasing temperature in your home and make the air condition switch. These sensors should be installed in such a way that it should be in contact with the appliances producing heat.
Brief on occupancy sensors
An occupancy sensor technology helps saving energy and wealth by limiting lighting, appliances, and heating and cooling, when rooms and zones are unoccupied for certain duration of time. Homes that do not have natural light, an occupancy sensor can be highly conserving when connected to background lighting. These sensors are functioned to operate the lights only when people are in the house. There are two common types of occupancy sensors. They are Infrared sensors and ultra-sonic sensors. Ultra-sonic sensors are paramount in rooms with partitions and divisions. Infrared sensors are better mainly for open areas. Some sensors include both of the features. Integrated units include the sensor and relay in a single housing that fits into a standard electrical box and hence priced more reasonably for residential applications.

In recent years due to global warming and rising temperatures summers are becoming unbearable. As a solution to this various electronic equipments such as air conditioners and coolers have been developed. However using these equipments through out the day can not be that economical. For this various alternative solutions have been developed to keep the house cool. Similarly there are few small things that we tend to forget but they add significantly to cooling the house. One of the best ways for cooling the house along with saving energy and money is proper lighting controls.

Use of proper lights in proper places

Instead of using conventional bulbs use the latest energy saver bulbs or tubes. These illuminations have halogen gases and consume less electricity and produce less heat thus keeping the house cool. Use the lightest wattage bulb according to the lighting needs. A heavy wattage bulb not only consumes more energy but also generates lots of heat. Use fixtures that cast light downward. This prevents heat from spreading in a larger aura. Use of indirect lighting can greatly help to curb the heat generated by the bulbs and tubes. Similarly don’t place bulbs and tubes over the sitting area, thus prevent direct heat.

Similarly use dimmers wherever possible. Dimmers help to reduce the light supply as required thus helps in reducing the heat generation by bulbs and tubes. If there are no dimmers make sure that only required bulbs and tubes are illuminated thus cutting over the heat generations. Similarly use of task lighting will greatly help to cut over the heat generated by lighting. Task lighting mainly refers to lighting that is directed at a specific area.

Use of light colors for the house will serve better reflection of light in the house. Lightly painted walls will reflect more light with fewer bulbs thus also helping to cool the house. On the other hand try to add windows to the house for natural light. With more natural light coming in the house, the use of artificial lighting will be eliminated thus keeping the house cool.

Colour is an ingredient that adds vibrancy to our everyday life. We just can’t imagine how dull and drab our live would be without the array of colors that we have become so accustomed to. Besides adding that exciting and stimulating touch to our everyday life, colors can actually affect our natural environment and immediate surrounding climate. The rising temperatures and the uncomfortable heat that accompanies it send each one of us in different directions in search for ways to cool our homes. The options at our disposal can be mind-boggling. They could include options such as the use of dehumidifiers, air conditioners, fans, air coolers and other such options that might not necessarily be cost-effective. The other options at your disposal may include simpler options such as planting trees around your house, making use of roller shades, Venetian blinds and other such variations. There is another factor that contributes immensely to the cooling of your home. One such factor is the color scheme of the entire home.

How colours have an effect:

Of the entire home the color of the rooftop is of utmost importance and must be taken into consideration. It is a scientifically proven fact that dark colors absorb a very high degree of light that is reflected upon it. Whereas light colors are known to reflect of most of the light and heat that is reflected onto its surface. Hence the roof must be painted with light shades so as to ensure that most have the light and heat that is directed upon it due to the sunlight is reflected off its surface. Thus the home will definitely be a few degrees cooler during the daytime.
Besides the exteriors, even the interiors of the house must be painted with suitable colors. This could include light blue or a light shade of purple. These are very cooling colors. Light pastels and peach colors are also recommended to be used in the interiors of your house.
These are just some of the guidelines that you can make use of while deciding on the color scheme of your home that will provide for a cool environment in and around your home.