G R E E N S TA R T E C H N O L O G I E S

Your Home
Automation Guide
Be safe and secure,
entertained and
connected with
complete comfort.
Discover a showcase of 10 of the
most popular contemporary
smart home features that when
fully personalised will enhance
your living experience and
simplify your life – All beautifully
integrated into your interior and
architectural design.

Also learn five important steps

that will help you incorporate
the best home automation
design into your new build
or renovation.
Smart Security
Feel more safe and secure and enjoy more
peaceful and simplified living.

Smart security provides the alarm When away consider the peace of
protection you expect with added mind having automated lighting to
benefits scalable to your preferences make the home look lived in. CCTV
such as keyless entry of controlled provides a greater deterrent, easily
gates and doors by secure code or accessible on smart phones, TV’s and
the swipe of your finger. Come and intercom touchscreens.
go with ease when walking the dog,
It’s often not only utilised for
gardening or riding your bike.
security but to help you manage
Enjoy an automatic ‘Welcome Home’ your property, monitor your pool
lighting path into the property when and garden or remotely coordinate
you arrive at night for peace of mind. deliveries in conjunction with your
When you leave for the day, imagine intercom and keyless entry control.
the convenience of the alarm system
automatically turning off whole home
lighting, heating and cooling and
then automatically close the blinds.
Intercom
Anywhere
The must have for any home!

All the benefits of intercom via dedicated

touchscreens where you need them plus the
added benefit of intercom on your family
smartphones. Now you can have convenient
intercom coverage anywhere. In the kitchen,
the ensuite or cinema, by the pool, or when
away from the property.

When combined with smart security you can

greet your guests, release any controlled gate
or door, preview property cameras and turn
on lights with simplicity. Intercom Anywhere
solves life for a busy family on the run, your
online delivery woes and delivers more
effortless control over a multi-level home.
Intelligent Effortlessly personalise whole home lighting
in any room, outdoor space or open plan
living area. Dimming adaption control lets you
more confusing light switches. One touch
scenes allow for more effortless control of
large open plan areas. Perhaps scenes for

Lighting Control create the environment you desire for how

you like to relax, entertain and get the day to
dining, TV watching and entertaining, or an
‘All-Off Goodnight’ transition when you retire
day tasks done. It’s the essential component to bed. Smart sensors give you late night
Transform the look and feel to your outdoor and interior design. dimming paths to ensuites and hallways.

of your home with light Reduce wall clutter and have more simplicity
by incorporating blind control into your room
lighting switch. Engraved buttons ensure no
Comfort Adaption
You can have personalisation
of your comfort in any room

By integrating control of your lighting,

heating and cooling, blinds and shades,
you can have far more personalisation
of your comfort in any room. With home
automation you can expect one simple
user interface to allow you to control the
entire home or a specific room you are in.

Imagine the westerly sun has migrated

to your living room. One user interface,
perhaps on a touchscreen or from the
convenience of your smartphone will allow
you to adjust the HVAC temperature, close
blinds or external shades and even adjust
the lighting so that you can enjoy total and
personalised comfort in the moment.

Even sweep fans and motorised windows

or skylights for circulation of fresh air. For
managing an entire home, it’s a new level
comfort and a contemporary approach to
an old problem.
Any Song, Any Room
The beauty is the simplicity.

Multiroom audio allows you to create new experiences in any room

of the home for working, relaxing or just for the pure delight music
brings. You can browse and play music from the world’s music
streaming services. Even the worlds internet radio.

By planning early, you can take advantage of recessed speaker

solutions that give you all the benefits without taking away from
your décor. For the enthusiast, you can implement the level of
performance you desire customised to each room environment.

For outdoor entertaining there are custom fit solutions for Alfresco
areas and systems integrated into your landscaping and around the
pool. Link zones or control them independently. The beauty is the
simplicity. Browse and play what you want, where you want at the
appropriate volume.
Watch Anything
Anywhere
Video distribution allows you to share content
to any TV. If you love Foxtel, Apple TV or Blu-ray,
you can now share multiple devices to any TV in
the home. Video distribution allows centralised
content and will minimise the need for
entertainment cabinets in each room to house
devices. You can enjoy minimalistic TV fit-outs
without all the gadgets taking up space in the
room and saves on expensive joinery costs. For
the security conscious, you can also access your
CCTV cameras on your TV’s.

A smart remote gives you full control of the

hide away content and TV ensuring its all simple
to use.
Entertainment
Rooms
With good planning, you can create the perfect
environment for entertaining in harmony
with your interior design ambitions. Home
Automation offers perfect simplicity.

Imagine one remote for the room that effortlessly

controls concealed entertainment, lighting,
blinds, heating and cooling. Your music and TV
entertainment content is all at your fingertips.

The speakers you use for music enhance your

TV viewing sound. Motorisation can allow TV’s to
drop down from the ceiling such as in bedrooms
through to having a fully discrete home theatre in
your living room where the hidden projector and
screen appear with the touch of a button making
the most of your favourite room in the house. And
when you’re finished, a ‘room off’ button hides it
all away for you and turns off the devices.

From simple entertainment rooms, open plan

living and dedicated theatres, home automation
allows you to create stunning rooms without the
clutter and with total simplicity.
 Outdoor Living
For the contemporary home, ‘outdoor’ is the new must-have living room.
Home automation solves this space beautifully for you. With just one control you can adapt your lighting for dining or a late-night dip in
the pool, schedule and control water features, control the pool and spa equipment, adjust the over-head heaters or sweep fans in the
Alfresco area, adjust shading systems and of course give you full control of the music and TV entertainment you desire. When entertaining
with friends, an ‘Intercom Anywhere’ solution combined with controlled gates and doors allows you to welcome your guests and give
them access to off street parking and the secure pedestrian gate with ease.
Be Connected
A good contemporary home should expect to
have a managed Wi-Fi solution that lets you
roam with confidence, indoors and outdoors and
between floors of the home. Your building should
have a solid backbone of good Wi-Fi coverage and
wired internet sharing for entertainment, home
office and the multitudes of connected devices
manufacturers are innovating for the home.

A home automation designer will help you

identify the technical solutions and smart wiring
you will need to ensure the home will be open to
deliver the functionality you need to achieve.
One Remote
For Everything
Bringing all the services that
you depend upon into one
elegant and unified control.

Homes have so many services now. Good home

automation is about bringing all the services
that you depend upon into one elegant and
unified control. When these systems work
together, you gain so much more than the
some of the parts. Simplicity is delivered via
a consistent user control which functions the
same for example as a centralised touchscreen
or on your smartphone.

Working complementary with these controls

are the dedicated controls you can expect
in each room such as the intelligent lights
switches or smart entertainment remotes.
The end result is a home that is more
responsive, comfortable, entertaining and more
safe and secure. A home that fits perfectly in
with your vision for your home
and the way you like to live.
5 Things you 1. 2.
Plan Early Discover
need to know
A mistake many home owners, builders and See for yourself! Be sure to see and understand
before you build designers make is that they overlook the
intimate relationship the home lifestyle systems
how a home automation solution will work
for you. The first step is to focus on the lived

or renovate have with the overall construction.

To build a contemporary home means more

experiences you desire room to room and across
the property. The solutions will come from that.

than just addressing the building envelope. Look for home solutions that are well tried
Every building project now needs to have a and tested in the scale of project you are
Home Automation specialist to ensure the looking to build or renovate. Just because
home design can fully embrace and evolve with something was splashed over a reality TV
the systems you will need to rely upon that will show, does not necessarily mean that it is tried
deliver all aspects of comfort adaption, being and tested or is a good match for your home.
connected, being entertained and feeling safe Take professional advice.
and secure.
Aim to see and learn about practical solutions
By engaging in a Home Automaton specialist that will achieve greater simplicity, offer more
early, you can gain a greater understanding nuanced personalisation of the home and be a
in which solutions will be the best fit for you better fit into your interior environment.
considering your interior design aspirations, while
also embracing the particular way you like to
live. You will save time, secure the functionality
you need to achieve, avoid costly variations that
come from late planning, get better value for the
systems you invest in and you will obtain a far
more satisfying home to live in.
3. 4. 5.
Collaborate Integrate Ask Why?
Home automation is not a concrete ‘thing’. When finalising solutions, look for a level of Be sure to ask why recommendations are being
The best projects are always born from an integration where systems work together for made to you. Ensure you understand the control
intimate understanding of your personal extra benefits. Like security that can activate will be simple to use, how integration has been
preferences, a collaboration of ideas, welcome home lighting from your lighting considered, how the solutions align with your
applying good technical solutions to solve control system, an intercom that can view all your specific needs and why the manufacturers
your problems and needs, formed from a cameras and control all your gates and security, proposed are being put forward.
foundation of experience. The right solutions a music system that integrates your TV audio or
You should expect a good home automation
will flow from there. lighting that also controls your blinds from the
designer will have your interests at heart
same switches.
It takes good collaboration to fully realise your and will be discerning in the way they have
vision for your home, the way you like to live and These are just examples. Investing in integrated approached the solutions for you.
your interior and architectural ambitions of the systems will deliver a better home to live in
project. Seek experience; A person and home and provide longer term flexibility. Look for one
automation company you feel comfortable with. consistent means of control. Don’t suffer with lots
Find someone you trust to take that journey with and lots of different apps and remotes!
you. Don’t be afraid to share likes and dislikes.
That will help the designer to align you with
solutions that are the best fit for you.

An experienced home automation specialist

will also be invaluable to the builder, architect
and interior designer to deliver the project from
a detailed brief they will have workshopped
and developed with you. The best smart
home projects are always the fruit of good
collaboration, understanding and experience.
Want to
know more?
Come and see at Melbourne’s
Control4 and Home Automation
Experience Centre.

There you can see and experience the most popular

smart home user experiences and solutions in one
space. Bring your plans and workshop ideas with an
experienced Home Automation Designer.

Available by appointment and located at

1945 Malvern Road, Malvern East, Victoria,
call 1300 887 397 and start your smart
home discovery now.

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