Automated Home

UK specialist Custom Controls recently undertook one of their most ambitious projects. Read on for all the photos and details… This project saw Custom Controls using and integrating just about every piece of automated control kit available including advanced audio, video, lighting and heating controls. This project covered a total area of 10,000 square meters, including [...]

  UK Distributors RGB, have just opened a Savant Experience Show Home to demonstrate how Savant has brought the familiarity of the Apple user interface to home automation. The system powering the central London Show Home is based on a Savant SmartMediaPro12 modular matrix switch/controller fitted with cards for 8 zones of audio and 10 zones of [...]

Here’s another video from Apple based Home Automation company Savant Systems.  This latest tour of their Soho apartment shows the technology integrated across the home.  Using the iPad to control itunes for whole house audio plus extensive lighting control too.  ’True Image’ provides a photo of the apartment and touching the lamp in the photo controls that lamp. [...]

  Around three years ago I reviewed the PetPorte SmartFlap, thanks to an urgent need to implement some sort of feline door policy. At the time there were two products that looked like they’d do the job, and I chose the PetPorte pretty much arbitrarily. Much to my chagrin, it turns out that the other [...]

Project Summary This archetypal semi-detached house just outside of Reading in Berkshire may look just like any other UK home from the outside, but inside it’s another matter entirely. The interior of this Home Counties home has been transformed by a dynamic young couple into a super swish Smart Home. They wanted to ensure that [...]

  Home owner and art lover Mark Christophers hired James Paul AV to install a Control4 system in this automated Bachelor Pad in London Mark Christophers (Homeowner) – “I love urban art, and I love twisted art. The stuff that people like or they’ll hate. I like stuff which is challenging, something a bit different. A sort of [...]

Loxone recently won the German Smart Home Award in the ‘Best Project’ category.  The prize was award for ”The Brown Box”, a smart home fully kitted out with Loxone.  Thanks to Loxone we’ve republished their case study detailing the winning home automation system … The 240m² family house, built in 2008, is not just all about [...]

Whether you’re looking for inspiration for your own home automation setup or  just a dreamer we all love looking at cool smart home installations.  This one features a London home with a custom KNX and Comfort system installed by Control Freax of Woking… Cytech’s COMFORT security system interacting with a new KNX whole house smart [...]

We are always on the look out for some cheap wall mount action for our iPad and this looks just the ticket – particularly if you’re not the worlds greatest DIYer. The £15 Koala Mount attaches to your wall with removable 3M Command strip in seconds and will hold all current iPad models along with many other [...]

Couple of quick vids from Crestron’s Design Showroom in New York City showing the interaction of smart home technology and Interior design… Crestron.com Want More? - Follow us on Twitter, Like us on Facebook, or subscribe to our RSS feed. You can even get these news stories delivered via email, straight to your inbox every day