Water views & blue-sky smarts

Over our next few issues, we’re looking at a group of homes using different control systems to achieve the benefits intelligent automation can bring. This stunning Sydney home – with an impressive home cinema – uses Crestron’s wide range of smarts to gather the potential complexities under a simple control system.

It’s one thing to design a home from scratch which will include all manner of smart-home operations. The benefits are many — the most exciting for our purposes being easy access to music and AV entertainment around the home, but also incorporating smart lighting which can include ‘scenes’ where pre-programmed combinations can transform one room or many at the touch of a single button, and underlying these the functions of security and access, which can also be integrated into the smart systems, and certainly not least the possibility of energy-efficient operation by automating climate control in combination with sensors and timed control of blinds, louvres and more. And when building a new home, all the required cabling and equipment can be carefully planned and installed as the plan progresses. It’s…

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Sound + Image (Digital) - 1 Issue, June - July 2018

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