Smart Home Systems

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What is a Smart Home?

A Smart Home is not simply a collection of internet connected things with apps to control them. In fact, making things “smart” in this way is generally just more complicated and unecceserry. We believe a smart home should automate things so you don’t have to think about it. Your home should make decisions about energy saving and comfort so that you can enjoy your time there without adjusting anything, which could save you energy compared to traditional timers and manual systems. Of course, you should be able to change settings from anywhere too, because that’s smart.

One hub to control them all

We build our smart home hubs using Home Assistant. A popular, open source system that can control almost any other smart product on the market. This means most other products don’t need their own app to control, and advanced automation decisions can be made using one web app.

  • Local control
    does not rely on internet connectivity or cloud services to function, everything runs on your hub and your apps can connect directly when at home.
  • Cross platform Integration
    With integrations with 1000s of different smart home products almost any sensor or output can be used by the hub to automate your world.
  • Fully customisabile interface
    Entirely bespoke for your home and needs. Every smart home is different. You can have yours look however you prefer, and even change it later.
  • Works with Alexa, Nest and HomeKit
    You could use this hub without it's own app if you like, controlling everything entirely from Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.

So smart, you forget it's there

Automation is a very powerful thing, and the more your smart home can sense and control, the more it can do things for you.

  • Automated Lights
    The original "smart" system. Lights can be automated based on time of day, indoor light level, motion detection and whether someone is home. You can even have different scenes based on time or activity. Then sit back, and let the house get the lights.
  • Climate control
    We've all heard of smart thermostats, but it's not just about setting the temperature on your phone. Have the house do it for you, automatically. The hub can detect you driving home and warm the house up, detect everyone has gone out and turn the heating off and even make decisions based on the weather.
  • Location Tracking
    The smart home app on iPhone and Android devices can be used to tell who is at home, work etc. The system can then make changes based on this. We can go one further using presence sensors to know exactly which room has people inside for very powerful automations.
  • Smart Security
    Having a home alarm increases a sense of safety at home. But it's a chore to set and unset. Did the kids set it? was the door locked? Is there someone in the garden? The system can keep track of all these things for you and arm the alarm when nobody is home, send you alerts from your cameras complete with a video feed, and sound the alarm if needed.
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Smart Meets Traditional

One of the drawbacks with smart systems so far is they have either plugged into your existing fittings, meaning the switches on the wall stop working as they should, or you need complex new wireing and control gear that is very expensive and hard to install.

Not anymore! We can make your existing lights and switches smart, either as switches or smart dimmers. These can then be controlled both from the smart hub and using the wall switch, even if the hub goes offline. 

  • Cost effective way to make whole fittings smart
  • Works with all types of lights
  • Can use existing toggle switches
  • Upgrade to a dimmer if desired
  • Uses wifi to connect to hub