The ability to monitor and control your home and the devices in it is one of Z-Wave’s most powerful possibilities.  By connecting your home’s Z-Wave network to the Internet, you can see what’s going on in your house, get an alert when something changes, and control devices when you’re away. 

Hawking Technologies’ Home Remote Starter Kit is a great entry to the concept of remote home control.  It includes a Z-Wave gateway that lets you communicate with your Z-Wave home from a PC or cell phone, from anywhere. It also includes a door sensor and a lighting module, which together will start you on a powerful home security and monitoring system for your home.

The process is quick and easy:
1) You’ll connect the Z-Wave gateway to your broadband router.
2) You’ll install a simple, battery operated door sensor over a door in your home.
3) You’ll plug a lighting module into am AC outlet, and a lamp into the module.
4) You’ll start the software setup wizard, which will walk you through everything.
5) You’ll pair the sensor and lamp module to the gateway by pressing a button

That’s it! In less than half an hour, you’ll now have a room in your home that is Z-Wave enabled for remote security. 

To see how to do all this in detail, visit our tutorial at:
http://zwaveworld.com/zwaveliving/080108/zwliving.php

What can you do with this simple setup? How about a the security of knowing if the kids got home from school all right, even if it’s dark out?  With this setup, you could mount the door sensor on your front door, and when the kids come home, they’d trigger the following “Home From School” event.
• The front door opens
• A lamp in the hallway lights up for safety
• The gateway sees this activity and sends you an alert
• Your cell phone or office PC lets you know the kids are home safe and sound

All this quickly, inexpensively and without any complicated programming. See for yourself how easy it all is by following this link.