FIBARO - Home Center Lite home automation controller

A small controller with incredible potential

The Fibaro Home Center Lite is a Z-Wave compatible home automation controller. It communicates with electronic sensors and devices located throughout the home using wireless and wired communications.

HC Lite is a small device with huge potential. Incredibly fast and efficient, yet inexpensive, it will enable you to control your home from anywhere in the world using a mobile phone, a tablet or a computer.

Up to 230 devices in your home
Thanks to the Z-Wave protocol based wireless communication, installing the Fibaro system requires no structural changes to your home. You can install it in a building, whether it's a new construction or an existing building. The Home Center Lite is fitted with a very powerful, energy-frugal Cortex A8 processor . Thanks to the high efficiency of the HC Lite, you can automate even the largest home and manage up to 230 devices.

Mini size Maxi multimedia control
The new HC Lite controller enables greater multimedia integration with the Fibaro system.  Manage your TV, Home Cinema, hi-fi and more, while playing with different scenes and associations, changing channel or adjusting the volume from the Fibaro application. By using Fibaro, you need no other remote apart from your smartphone or tablet. In addition, all of these devices can be set to respond automatically to events around around your home. For example, when you get home the television switches on for the news at 7.30 pm as you walk through the door.

Fibaro has managed to cram the endless capabilities of an intelligent system into one small box that will bring you comfort, automation and security.

Energy management
Thanks to the integrated power management functionality, using the Fibaro system enables you to monitor your real-time and past energy consumption while being able to identify those devices that consume the most. Detailed statistics are presented in the form of graphics, helping you compare figures and reduce future bills.

Be aware of any threat to your home
The Fibaro system will inform you immediately of any threat involving fire, flood, burglary or a gas leak and take appropriate measures in order to protect you and your loved ones. The system can, for example, cut the gas and electricity supply, turn on ventilation systems and post notices of evacuation. In the event of an attempted burglary, Fibaro can trigger sound and visual alarms, turn on all the lights and provide a live preview of the cameras of security directly to your mobile devices.

Magic Garden
A well maintained lawn no longer demands so much attention. The intelligent Fibaro system will water your garden exactly as needed, by providing the right amount of water, depending on the weather. Fibaro won't let not your plants die during hot weather and will avoid excessive watering when it rains.

Managing your heating

There's nothing like coming back to a warm cosy home, especially on a cold winter evening. Using the Fibaro system, you can switch your heating on and adjust it your preferred temperature while you're still sitting in the office. From the climate control panel, you can control exactly which rooms will be heated at any given time, and to an exact temperature. Programming your heating will give you greater comfort and improved management of your heating costs.

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Where are you?

Your home and your family always knows where you are, thanks to geolocation. When you leave the house, the system turns off unused devices, arms the alarm system and simulates your presence to deter thieves. With the calculation of your route home, the system adjusts the temperature and executes the pre-programmed scenes ready for your arrival.

A wide range of possibilities for future expansion

The Home Center Lite is a modular device. The systems only needs to work locally? Connect it the power supply and it's ready to use. You want access to all the features from wherever you are? Connect HC Lite to a power outlet and to your router and it's ready. Managing your home, keeping an eye on the children and the surveillance cameras at any time? Add the backup battery and a GSM module to monitor the status of the sensors operating on battery, even after a power failure in the building.

Features

• Z-Wave home automation controller
• Remote control for your Z-Wave modules
• Very low power consumption
• Remote access via the Web page or a mobile phone
• User-friendly interface
• Quick and simple to configure
• Geolocation to keep an eye on family members
• Management of several user accounts
• Different device combinations
• Creation of scenes according to the weather or other user-defined variables
• Advanced backup system
• Backup system always saved to the online service
• Event history
• Manages up to 230 devices
• Din Rail mounting
• Modularity/scalability by additional modules

Technical specifications

• Type of module: Z-Wave controller.
• Finish: White plastic housing
• CPU: ARM Cortex A8, 720MHz
• RAM: 128 MB
• Memory: SLC 128 MB hard disk
• Power supply: AC 100 ~ 260v, 50 ~ 60 Hz / DC 4V/1,2A
• Frequency: 868.42 MHz
• Range: Up to 30m
• Ethernet Ports: 1
• Dimensions: 90 x 90 x 33 mm