The Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor, from Samsung SmartThings, is a ZigBee Door Sensor.
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The ability to control the Heating / Cooling of a home is a very important feature of any Control System. One of the key benefits of the Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor is that it helps you schedule and control the temperature of your home, even down to individual rooms.
The Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor can measure the temperature of any room, depending on where you have positioned the Door Sensor. By sending the current temperature of the locale, the Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor keeps the Control System informed about the current status. By recording this information, the Control System is able to create a profile of the temperature fluctuations in your home, including the time taken to heat the room, and for it to cool.
The Control System and the Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor, together with the historical temperature data makes it easy to accurately manage the heating in your home. When used in conjunction with the external weather conditions, the heating schedule can adapt automatically to the Heating / Cooling pattern, including down to individual room level, to retain the correct temperature for a comfortable environment. If the outside temperature changes suddenly, then the Contol System can make an intelligent decision to increase or decrease the heating to reflect the external conditions.
The Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor allows the Control System to moniter activity within your home, both as a Security Aid, and more generally within the home, such as triggering an alarm during certain times of the day, or by contolling other devices when specific activities are detected by the Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor
The Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor, when attached to a Door or a Window of your home, will immediately notify the Contol System when the door or window has been opened. Not only can it be used to simply trigger the lights to turn on when a door opens, but can be used as part of a home security system.
If you use the Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor as a part of your Home Security System, it includes the ablity to notify the Control System when the device is being tampered with. Whenever the device case is opened, or if someone removes it from it's location, the Control System can trigger a warning alarm and let you know which device is being tampered with.
An important aspect of any Control System is the power used within the home as a whole, and by individual devices.
The Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor is battery operated device. By sending the battery information to the Control System, the Samsung SmartThings Multi Sensor battery state can be monitored automatically. When necessary, the Control System will predict and notify you, ahead-of-time, when the battery in the device will need to be changed.