SMART Home

What is a Smart Home?

A true smart home is a custom programmed system aligned to your lifestyle; where one simple action can trigger several elements to react based on your exact needs and wants.

We can have a multitude of systems feed information to each other that can improve the quality of life in your home.

For Example:
•   Having your security system motion detectors turn on / off a specific path of lights
•   A specific code is entered at your front door lock triggering specific lights and music to come on as you enter your home;
•   Your smart home can monitor the temperature in a room and have the shades close before turing on the Air Conditioning and / or Shades open up before firing up the furnace.
•   Your security contacts on your garage doors may tell the system that your garage is open, we can use that information to start a timer that can trigger a notification to be sent to your smart phone or play a recorded message throughout your homes entertainment speakers.


At Sounds Good we love improving the safety and efficiency of every home, but the real fun comes when your Smart Home system improves your entertainment and relaxation!  When a single touch of a button can activate music & video systems, dim lights and create the perfect mood or atmosphere which in the past would have taken several steps and a lot more time and effort - which may have lead to this never happening at all.

Smart Home System Control  

When you think about a smart home you should think about the simplest, most obvious form of home control.  You’ve been using it your whole life, the light switch. The light switch is simple and reliable.  Simple and Reliable is the standard we hold to every single system we design and install.  Smart Home and Home Automation are the buzzwords that describe the multitude of home control options that are now available to almost everyone.  Whatever smart home systems and sub-systems you choose for your home, we at Sounds Good believe they should be simple, make your life easier, safer, more fun and offer you energy savings.


SYSTEM OPTIONS:

We are now in a technological age where almost every device in your home is capable of giving you enhanced control and feedback about what it is doing, what it has done and what it is going to do.  From traditional appliances like you heating & air conditioning and the security system to modern devices like lighting control, whole home music systems, cameras, pool and hot tub control, gate control, home theatre & television control, door locks, and your homes water supply.  While many of these systems are easy to control through there own respective apps a smart home system will tie all of these systems together into a single app, giving you full control of your home faster and allowing the different systems to work together and interact with each other.  The smart home system interaction is where things really get exciting!

The Control is in your hands!

In a well-designed Smart Home system you will be able to control every system and sub-system from your iDevice or Android.  You should be able to control these systems both in your home and from anywhere in the world.  The key is to also design the system so that the sub-systems (Lights, Heating/Air Conditioning, Security, Door Locks) can be controlled independently in the event of devices running out of battery power, power failure or in rare cases Smart Home processor failure.  Really good Smart Home companies will also be able to monitor your system for abnormalities and also reset the system and sub-systems remotely in over to minimize downtime and service calls.  


Sounds Good designs, programs and installs Control4. Smart Home Systems are very similar, their capabilities are very much the same. What will make or break your Smart Home is all about the companies installing them and their smart home system programmers.  
Sounds Good have been designing, installing and programming smart home systems with a proven track record of customer satisfaction!