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• You arrive home and the lights come on, the door unlocks and curtains open or close up upon daytime lighting conditions.
• On a hot day, your blinds automatically close and fans cool the house before your air conditioner comes on (and only if the temperature reaches the threshold set by you), reducing your electricity bill.
• You use your cell phone to check if you left the garage door open, and remotely close it if you did.
• Your cell phone receives a text message if there is water in the basement or your house has a power outage.
• You use your cell phone to not just control or monitor your own house, but also holiday house, farm, office or business premise and all the information is presented to you in a consolidated fashion from any or all of these locations on your mobile device, including an unlimited number of real time images updated by motion detection CCTV cameras.
• If you are a business owner and need an effective way to monitor and control different and often used appliances in your premises, either locally or remotely, you can use our system on any PC based touch screen monitor!
• If You already have some sort of home or building automation network (X10, A10, Insteon, Xanura, CBus), but lack true remote control and automation options, and you feel you are held back from unlocking the real power of what you have already invested in, our system is for you!

These are just a few of the scenarios that become possible when everything that is plugged in the building can share information on a network, and the one reliable, affordable, universal and portable web-based control center is aware of the state of all participating switches and sensors at all times, allowing you to seamlessly manage all the connected devices/appliances.

We are happy to present you a system that makes this dream a reality

iMCA (Intelligent Monitoring Control and Automation) Server - is a complete web-enabled system (software) for monitoring, controlling and automating homes and buildings. It is a rapidly deployable and scalable solution for new and old buildings equipped with various automation standards and platforms, resulting in a reliable, affordable and highly versatile system unlocking the true power of different automation technologies like IP Switches, IP Sensors, X10, A10, Insteon, etc.

iMCA’s GUI has a logical and intuitive layout and its dimensions, menus, icons and windows adapt to whatever device you wish to use for access – whether it be PC, PDA, tablet, touch screen LCD, mobile phone, iPhone, iPode Touch, etc. Because iMCA is ENTIRELY web based, it requires no other software components such as dlls, ActiveX etc to function. If tailored solutions are required, iMCA can even use public information portals (meteorology for example) or RSS feeds as triggers for control and automation scenarios. 

With iMCA, you can easily create, save and execute any number of monitoring, control or automation scenarios, and you can do this from within or around your premises, or from anywhere in the world where you can access the web. iMCA Server can be installed on a Windows or Unix/Linux based system or can be acquired as a "turn key" system running from a very small foot print mini PC or all-in-one (touch screen PC) system. iMCA "turn key" system may also include a range of IP switches and sensors recognized by iMCA.

Aspects such as ease of installation, stability, consistency of look and feel, efficiency of use and ease of learning were considerations constantly at the forefront during development of iMCA. For example, tremendous effort has gone into enabling immediate state changes of objects on the GUI when the user interacts with them without any evidence of page refresh, and close to real-time update of information on the GUI again without any evidence of page refresh, giving the impression of a persistent connection between the application and the network. In other words, iMCA successfully delivers the benefits of a web-based application (such as client-independence and OS-independence) together with the behaviors and responsiveness traditionally associated with a thick-client application.

HOW iMCA SYSTEM IS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS
	iMCA is a full scale enterprise-level software with  virtually unlimited  monitoring, control and automation capability,  and interoperability
	iMCA is computer OS independent and it can be installed on both MS Windows and Unix based systems
	iMCA is 100% web based and compatible with most modern handheld devices iPhone, iPod Touch, Win Mobile, Nokia, etc
	iMCA is based on a Common Data Model automation framework, which enables a rapidly deployable, practical, useable and geographically scalable automation system
	iMCA supports unlimited number of automation scenarios based on time or sensor/switch states and values
	iMCA is NOT just another 'multimedia software solution' for entertainment/multimedia automation
	iMCA is structured purely around interaction with switches and sensors (or IP based devices or services capable of delivering environmental information)