Smart Homes works with you to define a detailed wiring diagram of your home to future proof your house with structured wiring for audio, video, phone, data, security and lighting control. This becomes the backbone for your home’s nervous system.
This backbone allows for:
- Easily configurable distribution of phone, data, fax, video, and audio throughout the home without expensive rewiring.
- Reduction in overall costs for having different wires run by each contractor like HVAC, phone, computer, cable, satellite, lighting, etc.
- Higher resale value for your home because no expensive modifications will be required for new equipment.
- More comfort and fun in spending time at your house using whole house audio, fine-tuned climate control, intercom and other features in an integrated home. Future proof your home for new technologies that will be released.
- Lower cost for centralized Audio and Video components such as DVD and music servers.
- Simplicity in controlling your appliances from one easy interface.
Our engineers can develop very reasonably priced solutions for all of your automation requirements. To start this process, we will work from your house plans, how you want to live in your home and what is important.. is security an issue? Distributed music? Remote surveillance? And so on.
After this fact-finding is understood, we will start the wiring design, keeping in mind the following elements:
1. Structured wire consists of multiple types of wiring running to different locations in the home. A bundle might include RG6-Quad shield coaxial cables, a Cresnet control cable, and Category 5 or 5E or 5plus communication cables.
Example of our structured wire:
Interior Elements
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Blue Stripe Element 1: RG6 Quad Shield Broadband Cable |
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Blue Jacket Element 2: 24 AWG, 4 Pair Cat5E |
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Yellow Stripe Element 3: RG6 Quad Shield Broadband Cable |
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Yellow Jacket Element 2: 24 AWG, 4 Pair Cat5E |
Interior Cable Jackets Features:
- Different color stripe for easy visual identification.
- Ascending/Descending Footage Markers
- RG6 cables contain cable and satellite designation markers.
- Category 5E contains Data, Phone and Intelligent Controller designation markers.
- All elements contain alphanumeric room and numeric jack designation markers.
2. Structured wiring radiates from a central hub in a star pattern through your home’s walls so that each outlet or jack has its own run of cable. (The National Electric Code (NEC) requires that it be installed at least six inches away from the electrical wiring already in the walls.) If you are building or renovating, wire your home for the future while the walls are open. Remember: wires are cheap but pulling wires through a finished house is expensive. We typically run lots of wires to lots of locations, even if you’re not ready to use them all yet. We also install a conduit through which future cables can be snaked without ripping down walls.
