Smart Home, Home Cinema & Independent Living Technology - Design, Installation & Support

This is a very subjective answer; there are many different manufacturers who produce very good smart home solutions. They all have different strengths and weaknesses which means that the best smart home solution will be the one with the features and functions that most closely matches your specific requirements.

At Automated Spaces we take a consultative approach when engaging with our clients, which means after we have fully understood their requirements, we can then recommend the best solution. 

In the majority of cases, we find that Control4 is the most cost-effective smart home solution that can provide the breadth of features and functions required to fulfil our client’s requirements. 

Then when you combine this with the fact that Control4 works with nearly 16,000 (this number is rapidly growing) third-party consumer devices, it has an intuitive user interface that can be easily customised by clients after it has been installed, the product is constantly evolving and improving and there is an excellent support service provided by Control4 to its authorised installers…these all mean that we know that our clients will have their expectations exceeded when they live in their smart home.

With the continuing proliferation of manufacturers entering the smart home sector, providing a wide range of solutions across a multitude of technology categories; from Smart Lighting, Home Entertainment to Safety & Security, how do you even begin to estimate the cost to create a smart home?

The answer lies in our proven discovery process to qualify and better understand the current as well as the future requirements for the people who will be using the smart home, along with creating an agreed scope of technologies to be implemented, in line with the available budgets.

We can help people, who might not know all the possible capabilities of a smart home, understand the ‘art of the possible’. Also, we help people maximise their budgets and ‘plan for the future’. 

During the initial discussions about a project, we gain an insight into the lifestyle of the people who will use the smart home so we can design for their individual requirements. How to plan for a phased installation, where the costs can be spread over a period of time, is also covered along with how we help people identify the value of a smart home.

If you would like to know how much a smart home, that matches your specific requirements, would cost…then feel free to download load our whitepaper ‘How much does a smart home cost?’ or to connect with us and we will be happy to create a tailored quotation for you.

The answer is simple…as early in the project as possible! So that all crucial construction interdependencies as well as technical considerations can be identified and factored into the property design by the relevant parties e.g. the architect or lead contractor.

If any technology is badly implemented, then it can be relatively simple to hack e.g., if you install any device and do not change the manufacturers default password then you should be aware that the device could be hacked with a simple Google search. We install devices with passwords that combine numbers, upper case, lower case letters and symbols. The passwords will have a character length long enough that it would typically take a hacker using a computer over 34,000 years to guess. 

We also give our clients advice to help stop them becoming a victim of more sophisticated hacking attacks such as not clicking on links in emails they receive, using 2 factor authentication systems to secure their personal devices, email and social media accounts, etc. 

We also protect all our internal systems with multiple layers of security including fingerprint scanning to access key devices that contain sensitive data.

If you would like to know more about how we can ensure that your future smart home is secure, then feel free to connect with us

We look to eliminate all complexity from the smart homes we design and implement for our clients. 

We will create an interface that is intuitive to use and that can be easily customised by our clients to match their individual preferences and include their commonly used favourite functions within 1 or 2 buttons clicks.

We provide thorough onsite and hands on training to all our clients as part of the formal project handover process along with comprehensive user manuals and cheat sheets. 

We also provide fantastic on-going support to our clients that includes a telephone support service that allows them to even call us to ask, ‘How do I?’ type questions.

Combining all the approaches above totally removes the complexity for our clients.