Can Your Smart Home Adapt to Your Calendar – and Your Lifestyle?
VitreaA truly smart home should do more than connect different systems. It should adapt to the way the people who live in it actually live – their routines, schedules, habits, and the moments that change the rhythm of everyday life. For Jewish families, that can also include the Hebrew calendar, Shabbat, and Jewish holidays. Vitrea smart home systems integrate with the Hebrew calendar and synchronize with an astronomical clock, allowing the system to recognize Jewish holidays in advance and enabling scenes to be planned around Shabbat and holiday schedules. It’s one example of how smart home technology can be designed around the residents’ lifestyle, rather than asking them to adapt their lifestyle to the technology.
When Your Calendar Becomes Part of Your Home Automation
We tend to think of home automation in terms of fixed hours and days of the week: a Morning scene, an Away scene, an Evening scene, or a sequence that prepares the home for entertaining. But not everything in our lives follows the same schedule every week. Shabbat start and end times change throughout the year, while Jewish holidays follow the Hebrew calendar rather than fixed dates on the Gregorian calendar. Vitrea’s integration with the Hebrew calendar and astronomical clock makes it possible to plan how the home will operate on different dates throughout the year and create scenes accordingly.
So while you’re preparing for a holiday meal, welcoming family and guests, or simply enjoying time at home, the lighting, shades, HVAC, and other connected systems can be programmed in advance according to your family’s needs and routines. Instead of treating every Shabbat or holiday as a separate event that requires new preparation, the calendar itself can become part of your home automation.
Interior Design: Asi Ben Shushan | Photography: Oded Smadar
Smart Home Scenes Designed Around the Way You Live
One of the key benefits of a smart home system is the ability to bring multiple actions together into a single scene. Depending on the household, these might include Morning, Evening, Away, Entertaining, Vacation, or other scenes designed around recurring moments in everyday life. For families who observe Shabbat and Jewish holidays, the same principle can be applied to those occasions. Scenes can be configured according to the way the household uses the home: when lighting is needed, how the shades and HVAC should operate, and which systems should work together at different times. The technology may be sophisticated, but the idea behind it is simple: the system should adapt to the residents’ lifestyle – not the other way around.
For Shabbat-Observant Homes
For households where Shabbat observance is part of everyday life, Vitrea offers additional options for adapting the system accordingly. Vitrea systems offer the option to lock the keypads for Shabbat, as well as the ability to connect to an external mechanical Shabbat timer to extend operating times. Vitrea also has halachic approval for its Shabbat mode, an important consideration for observant families who want to incorporate smart home technology into their home. These capabilities can become part of a broader smart home plan tailored to the specific needs and routines of each household.
Interior Design: Asi Ben Shushan | Photography: Oded Smadar
Interior Design: Asi Ben Shushan | Photography: Oded Smadar
Technology Designed Around Real Life
When planning a smart home, it’s easy to focus on what you can see: the keypads on the wall, their design, and the functions they control. But much of what makes a smart home truly smart happens behind the scenes. Vitrea smart home systems are developed and manufactured in Israel, with the ability to create a wide range of scenes and automations and integrate different systems throughout the home. The Hebrew calendar, Jewish holiday scheduling, and Shabbat functionality are additional examples of how the system can be configured around specific lifestyles and routines.
Because every home operates differently – and the technology behind it should reflect that.
With Vitrea smart home systems, you can control every area of your home easily and conveniently. Create scenes tailored to your lifestyle, make everyday living more comfortable and smarter than ever, and simply let your home work for you automatically.
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