Audio and Video Throughout the Home
The best solution for the family was a Sky HD box per person and also a dedicated HD sky box for the cinema (6 in total). All Movies and Music can be accessed in all bedrooms, main living-room and kitchen via an IDYL storage server rather than having multiple DVD players in each room.

Simple Communication Between Rooms
The house is equipped with a phone in each room (except bathrooms), these phones are tied into a central Panasonic phone system which allows inter calling between rooms, and also acting as an intercom for the external gate entry. This was really important for when meals were prepared so everyone in the house could be called without the dinner getting cold.

Security - Home and Away
The security system incorporates 8 outdoor infra-red day/night perimeter cameras, with one position on the main gate entry to the property. The control system allows the user to view any camera feed on any of the TVs throughout the home.

The client installed a Galaxy alarm system so it could be integrated with the Crestron control and lighting system. We configured the lighting control system so that the lights would be triggered on and off when the Burglar alarm was activated to alert people in the surrounding area of potential intruders.

Dedicated Home Cinema Room
The 8 seater home cinema provides the ultimate big screen home cinema experience. The whole family can enjoy films together and create that authentic cinema experience within the home. All the music and movies accessible in the rest of the house can also enjoyed in the home cinema. View the home cinema room >

Remote Gate Entry
The Panasonic telephone system was chosen as we could integrate it easily with the gate entry system, allowing two way simultaneous communication with the gate intercom, and the ability to open the gates from any phone within the house.

Heard But Not Seen
All 6 bedrooms and kitchen area have in-ceiling B&W CCM65 speakers to help achieve the discreet look the client was trying to achieve. The main living-room is different to all other areas of the house utilising an Onkyo surround sound amplifier coupled with the very chic design of Anthony Gallo speakers to help give the modern look the room demanded.

Whole House Mood Lighting
A Rako lighting system was chosen for a number of reasons:
(1). Some keypads needed to mounted on the existing stone walls, which could not have cables run through. The Rako keypads were battery operated thus did not need power cables run to them.
(2). We could integrate mood lighting within each room with simple easy to use control keypads.
(3). The whole house control system provided the convenience of turning all the lights off with a single button when leaving the property, and also would integrate with the Galaxy alarm system.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind
In order to fit in with the minimalist looks of each room, all source and control equipment was housed in a dedicated comms area within the house. This allowed the entire home to have access to any equipment available whether it be Sky HD, DVD, music or CCTV.

Simple Control
By making the handsets and touch screens very simple to use, vistiors with no technical experience can dive straight in without the fear of doing something wrong.

In the bedrooms and main living-room the universal MX-900 remote controls were utilised in such a manner that the user could select and use any SKY HD box, CCTV image and IDYL server content in any area.

The Kitchen and Cinema areas have the use of TMPC8 Crestron touch screen controller which ties each of the areas into the security system as already mentioned, giving access to CCTV images as well as gate entry.

The Final Verdict
The client really enjoys music and movies, so the ability to access what they want when they want it really does meet, and in most cases, exceeded their expectations.

The fact that little effort goes into how to use the system, as the control has been designed to flow logically when used coupled with an audio visual system that discretely sits very well into their everyday life.

The client is so happy with the install that they have encouraged us to use the house to show potential clients the quality of our installs.