Building Healthier Homes: How to Integrate Home Wellness from the Start

Air and Water Purification, Lighting, and More 

In last month’s blog post, we introduced the concept of home wellness as a holistic approach to improving home indoor environments. Water and air purification systems, natural lighting solutions, whole-home audio, and other systems can contribute to enhanced home environments that are more comfortable and less stressful, alleviate allergies, and provide additional healthful benefits. 

This year’s pandemic and its profound effects on Long Island and New York have undoubtedly heightened the focus on healthier indoor environments. But the truth is that home solutions have existed for some time for better air and water quality, and the right lighting choices with older lighting technology could also help. So what’s new with home wellness? As with many products that are being revolutionized, it's information technology. The same tech that is making lighting, TVs, cars, appliances, and a host of other products more intelligent and automated is being applied to wellness in the home.  

As in home automation, you can apply wellness solutions to existing homes. But for the best results, if you are a homeowner, architect, or designer considering a new home project, integrating wellness from the start will yield even better results.  

Keep reading below to take a closer look at designing in wellness from the start to create healthier home environments in Long Island.  

SEE ALSO: Home Wellness Solutions: The Next Step in Healthier Living 

AIR PURIFICATION 

Many people are highly susceptible to chronic allergies. But how do you know how many allergens are in the air? The Delos Darwin Home Wellness Intelligence solution continually monitors air quality, using weather and outdoor information coupled with indoor air quality sensors. It can provide intelligent feedback, such as informing you to keep doors and windows closed to keep allergens and pollutants out. It can also advise about the proper levels of humidity and the possibilities for transmission of airborne viruses. When you couple this higher level of information with automation, you can use air purifiers, humidity control, and HVAC systems intelligently to create optimal indoor air quality.  

WATER QUALITY 

Water filtering solutions have been used for decades, but there was little information to the homeowner on everyday water quality until very recently. While we might like to think of water as consistently high quality, it will vary, particularly when municipal water systems are strained to deliver acceptable quality levels. With the Darwin system, water quality can be continuously monitored right in the home. The Delos 3-stage water filtering solutions can reduce sediment and chlorine, while the KDF filter targets heavy metals like lead, mercury, and copper to deliver clean water for bathing and drinking. But the system also gives homeowners the information they need to know how clean their water is so they can make appropriate choices.  

THE DARWIN SYSTEM 

The DARWIN system is a holistic wellness solution that applies information and automation technology to monitor and maintain a healthier environment. DARWIN can work with industry-leading tunable lighting solutions such as Lutron’s Ketra. Tunable lighting creates more aesthetic and natural indoor light that can match home activities from work to relaxation. The right lighting color and intensity can create an environment that follows our natural circadian rhythms, improving the ability to disconnect and improve sleep patterns. The system can also work with leading home automation solutions like Crestron to integrate other features that influence the environment – motorized shading, HVAC control, additional lighting, audio/video systems, and more to harmonize the home ambiance.  

DARWIN PREMIER 

Work with experts to design wellness into your next custom home. The Premier program lets technology integrators like Home Technology Experts work with you to incorporate wellness technology into every aspect of your home design. Integrate lighting, air quality, and more to maximize indoor environments, from optimizing HVAC and AV systems to material choices for healthier living.  

Are you ready to fully integrate wellness into your Long Island project? Get in touch with us here; we would love to work with you!