Home Automation Services in India: What's Included and What You Get

Most people call us with one specific problem. The store room light that burns all week. The AC that takes forty minutes to cool the bedroom after work. A father living alone who has to walk across a dark room at 2 AM to reach a switch. Nobody calls asking for a smart home. They call about the thing that's been annoying them. Wohnux builds systems in Germany and makes them for Indian houses and Indian wiring. Here's what our home automation services in India actually cover, and what changes once it's in. Our services Smart lighting On, off, dimming, grouping and timers. You can turn off a light in a room you're not standing in, which turns out to be the thing people use every single day. Fan control Speed from the panel or your phone. No walking to the regulator at 3 AM when the room gets cold. Air conditioning Set the temperature from anywhere. Switch it on from the car so the bedroom is already cool when you reach. Let it move a couple of degrees warmer after 2 AM on its own. Motorised curtains Curtains that open in the morning and close in the afternoon without anyone touching them. Useful in any room that gets heavy western sun. Home security Video door phone, smart locks, cameras, motion sensors and fire detection. Every alert comes to the same phone. Scene control One button doing many things. Press Good Night and the downstairs lights go off, the bedroom AC sets itself, and the curtains close. Mobile app Run the house from the office, another city, or a holiday. Site visit, wiring guidance and service The part people forget to ask about. We look at your switchboards before quoting, guide the wiring if the house is under construction, do the installation, and handle service afterwards. What you actually get out of it You stop getting up Every family mentions this first. The balcony bulb, the store room, the study lamp. You handle it from wherever you are. Your bill comes down Scheduling and dimming quietly remove the waste nobody was going to catch by hand. In summer the AC is where most of it comes from. The house feels safer You see who's at the gate before you open it. You give the maid access from your phone and take it back when she leaves. You get an alert if something moves in an empty house at 2 PM. Mornings and nights get shorter The round of the house before bed becomes one button. Curtains open on their own. Elderly parents manage better This is a bigger one than most brochures admit. A panel next to the bed means no walking in the dark. A video door phone means never opening a gate to a stranger. Everyone in the house can use it Your old switches keep working like old switches. Nobody has to learn an app to turn on a light. Your property is worth more A properly automated house stands out when you sell or rent. Why Indian homes need something built for them A lot of home automation services in India install systems that were designed for European houses. They fail here in the same four ways, and it's worth knowing them before you sign anything. Voltage here moves around far more than that hardware expects, so it stops working earlier than it should. Power cuts leave the system confused. Schedules go, devices come back in the wrong state, and you end up setting it up again. When the internet drops, a cloud-based system stops responding. Your own wall panel won't switch your own lights. And a panel in Delhi in May sits in a room at 45 degrees, which most of them were never rated for. Wohnux products are specified for all four. That's the difference between German engineering built for India and German engineering simply shipped here. You don't need to break walls If your house is built and you're living in it, the modules go behind the switchboards you already have. The wiring stays. Only the plates change, and your old switches keep working as normal switches. Two and three bedroom homes are usually finished in a day or two. No dust sheets, no repainting. If the house is still being wired, that's the better moment. A small change in the plan now costs very little and keeps every option open later, curtain motors especially. How we quote We price on point count, not square feet. A point is one thing you control, like a light or a fan or a socket. A bedroom might have seven. A living room with a designed lighting plan can have fifteen. That's why two flats of the same size can be forty percent apart, and why anyone giving you a number over the phone is guessing. Start with two rooms You don't have to do the whole house at once, and we usually suggest you don't. Start with the bedroom and living room. Use it for a month. You'll find out quickly which features you reach for daily and which ones you forgot about after week one, then spend the rest of the budget on that. Before you hire anyone Four questions worth asking any company offering home automation services in India. Does it work without internet? Does everything come back on its own after a power cut? Will you check my switchboards before quoting? And who comes to my house if a panel stops responding two years from now? That last one matters more than people expect. Hardware can come from anywhere. Service can't. Working with Wohnux Our installation and support run through partners across India, so the site visit and the service call three years later come from people who can actually reach you. If you're looking at home automation services in India for a house you're building or already living in, book a site visit. We'll go through your switchboards, count your points, and tell you honestly what's worth doing and what isn't.