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Fl Flex gets t rid id of f th the b burden d of f comprehending electricity usage while helping consumers to save more. Flex Automation can eliminate unnecessary consumption like stand-by power of TV sets and other appliances. Flex will automatically turn off devices when it detects non-usage.

Automating functions in the house can be like a culture shock, but in truth, this can greatly make life easier and more convenient, not to mention save more time.

Flex allows the user to program “scenes.” Hans shares: “For example, let’s program a ‘waking up scene’ by automatically opening the bedroom curtains at 7: 15 a. m., turn on the adjacent bathroom light, start your wake-up Spotify music, turn on the air- conditioning downstairs at 22 degrees Celsius, and start your coffee machine. With Flex at home, one can program numerous scenes according to each lifestyle preferences.”

Flex also offers smart kitchen appliances through Candy Smart Kitchen, where one can command smart appliances like the refrigerator telling you that you’re running out of fresh eggs, hoods indicate that the smoke from the range is from a burning food, and dishwashers which can be started remotely. Flex serves at home.

practicality

Flexing the PH standard of living

Sooner or later, many people will be fully dependent on smartphones. Sizes of smartphones are even gradually increasing, making it safe to say that in the near future, we won’t even need laptops anymore.

Smartphones can be used not only for social media but for other practical matters too like controlling and managing entry and access at home.

“People’s standard of living will be greatly enhanced by placing control of their homes in the hands of their smartphones th and dit its remote access and management capabilities,” Hans said.

In the Philippines, home automation products are expected to grow massively in the next four-six years with annual growth rates of 50 percent per year.

In 2022, the Philippine market for home automation products will reach P24 billion, which makes this technology very exciting for many Filipinos.

Flex might be a company headed by Hans who is from the Netherlands, but his is a heart of a Filipino. Incorporating what the Filipino market wants and needs is something Flex considers.

Flex products follow home automation protocol from a global consortium called Z-Wave, backed by Microsoft and Intel. Z-Wave protocol ensures backwards compatibility which means it can work even with other older products, like Sylvania (plug-in modules with remote control), which Hans introduced back in 2003.

People might think with all this tech stuff, there might be a loophole

to hack or break into its home automation system and gain unauthorized access to one’s home.

Flex products are used by banks and even alarm companies, a guarantee how fool-proof its home automation system is. Flex uses two technologies, which makes it impossible for even the most experienced hacker to gain access to a protected house.

Flex Automation is also concerned with compatibility. By using Z-Wave, a global leading open platform technology for home automation products, Flex establishes compatibility with other brands.

One can use a product from a competing brand with Flex system. It works like an android system which is used by many brands worldwide.

Flex vs other brands

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