Traditional security cameras provide basic monitoring and video recording that is accessed after an incident has occurred. The integration of KNX systems significantly improves home surveillance.
By Kristel Osorio
By combining automation, energy efficiency and real-time monitoring, KNX-powered smart surveillance offers owners a future-proof security solution, remote control functions and much more.
Why choose KNX as your smart home surveillance partner?
Whether you live in a house, apartment, or rental, a sense of security is important for any type of home. You can rely on KNX as a reliable partner in smart surveillance and home automation in general. As an internationally recognized home automation standard, we have the expertise to configure, integrate, and secure your smart surveillance devices. Applied to video surveillance, KNX offers the following advantages:
1. Smart surveillance seamlessly integrated into your smart home setup
KNX allows owners to connect security cameras with lighting, alarms and motion sensors. For example, when motion is detected near the entrance, the system can automatically turn on the exterior lights, start recording, and send an alert to the owner's smartphone.
The cascade of activation devices is what we call "home automation" and, as obvious as it may seem, this setup requires a professional installer. So always make sure to contact a KNXpert to help you set up your security system.
2. Automated security responses to suspicious events
With smart monitoring, owners can program KNX to respond to specific events. If your security camera detects unusual movement at night, the system can activate security alarms and lock all smart doors automatically. These answers are pre-set by the installer, in agreement with the homeowners, of course.
3. Effective video surveillance without wasting energy
Homeowners often have energy-consuming habits to create their own safe space and safeguard their property.
For example, leaving a light on to create a sense of presence at home when they really aren't.
Homes equipped with traditional security cameras leave them in permanent recording mode, as the only other option is to turn them off.
These small actions seem harmless, but they will cost you, over time, a lot of energy and money.
KNX helps to optimise energy use by ensuring that security cameras and connected devices (such as lights and blinds) are only active when necessary. Motion-activated recording reduces energy consumption while maintaining effective security for your home.
4. Remote monitoring and control to keep an eye on your home from anywhere
Whether owners are at work or on holiday, they can access live video feeds, receive security alerts and adjust surveillance settings remotely via KNX-compatible apps. This ensures 24/7 security control from anywhere.
Product Highlights: ISE Axis Security Cameras
Luis Enrique Bonilla Romero, Business Development and Fields Sales Engineering Manager LATAM at AXIS Communications, comments: "It is the possibility of giving a camera the ability to share data at the level of the KNX open communications protocol. This company (ISE) is developing, under our AXIS operating system, applications, and it is in particular allows the camera to transmit data over the KNX standard, which is fantastic. It's super powerful because KNX is a standard for lighting control and more."
ISE is one of more than 500 KNX members, a group of world-renowned manufacturers who produce smart devices and systems that support our KNX standard.
The ISE monitoring system (the KNX SMART APP from Axis) offers a multitude of advantages to homeowners:
Reliable motion detection via KNX: Record only relevant movements, reducing unnecessary footage, such as trees moving in the wind or a cat running past the garage.
Privacy control: Turn off motion detection or use private zone masks whenever you need some privacy (e.g., when friends come over to your house).
Active deterrence system: By connecting security cameras to a KNX system, third-party devices can also be activated. Turn on your lights, stereo, or even your TV when suspicious activity is detected, to create a sense of presence.
Anti-tamper protection: Is someone trying to tamper with your surveillance? Receive an immediate alert when the camera is covered or sprayed with paint.
KNX-integrated door station: Connect Axis Communications door stations seamlessly with your KNX system. This allows you to answer the door remotely when the mail carrier is ringing the doorbell.
Bonilla adds: "The possibility of having KNX IP communication from the camera – for example, temperature data from the thermometric camera – is converted to KNX and carried over to a compatible KNX system. So this can interoperate with a gateway, with whatever you want. Another example is that it can integrate not only cameras, but also intercoms, speakers, radars, mobile PTZ cameras... and relatively simple integration, delivering data in the open KNX IP standard. They have done so on different camera models. This integration is really very interesting."
These features truly set your smart home surveillance system apart from traditional home security.
Rely on KNX for a smart, safe and secure home
KNX offers homeowners a future-proof smart surveillance solution. With seamless integration into home automation, reliable motion detection, real-time alerts and energy efficiency, KNX ensures proactive security without unnecessary complexities. Its ability to integrate with other smart systems, such as lighting and alarms, provides a complete and automated safety network.
Whether it's to prevent intrusions, safeguard privacy or improve convenience, KNX offers a scalable, customizable and robust intelligent surveillance system.
To enjoy the benefits of your smart monitoring system, rely on a certified KNX installer for its correct configuration.
