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Smart Homes - The New Standard

Recent developments in technologies and services now require extensive wiring and crossconnect facilities to be an essential part of the modern home. These facilities are required to support not only a wide range of current and future telecommunications services but also future in-home entertainment and building services. These standards in New Zealand are outlined by the TCF Premises Wiring Code of Practice.

The New Standard of home wiring ensures you make the best use of your Audio and Visual (AV) appliances, as well as high speed communication networks by distributing their features throughout your home, often offering full wireless control.
Ideas such as being able to watch your favourite movie on your home theatre system and then pressing pause, then being capable of watching it in your bedroom, using the same remote are now affordable and expected. Streaming of your family photos, movies, music as well as online content throughout your home is also becoming expected.

Some features of this technology include:

Great pictures in every room;
Distributes your Video throughout the house, therefore only needing DVD player, with wireless control from every TV room;
Distributes your Music throughout the house, therefore only needing one Audio system, with wireless control throughout your home;
High speed broadband distribution;
Telephone distribution, VoIP recommended;
Gaming connections with the world;
Security alarm connection;
Remote control of your appliances using infrared and / or WiFi;

You need a system that can change with your family. The uses of rooms within a home can changes from bedrooms to Gyms, to Offices, to Gaming rooms, to a Home Theatre. Future-proofing allows for this flexibility without the need for expensive rewiring. At the heart of our future -proofing is the New Zealand designed and manufactured Kristil Automation System. This provides for the flexibility of design that will change as your needs change.

Make the "Smart Home" Decision

People are familiar with the explosion of digital content (music, photos, movies, etc.) driving the need for home servers and faster connections for content creation, streaming and backup. Applications like voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) and gaming require low latencies (the time it takes for round-trip communication) and data integrity that only a adequately wired system can offer.

In the near future, fully automated homes with totally integrated and interactive systems will no longer be a high-priced luxury. These "smart homes" will, for instance, be able to automatically control all of it's lighting from bedroom to basement, or monitor and precisely allocate its' total energy usage or run a complete security alarm and surveillance system 24/7.
Homeowners without the proper infrastructure will be left behind or faced with expensive retrofit costs when these technologies become mainstream.

Adds Value, Increases Marketability

The lesson to be learned now — before it's too late — is that the right infrastructure needs to be in place to accommodate the latest technologies and changing lifestyles.
Without a technology-ready infrastructure, the overall value and attractiveness of a new home will suffer, especially compared to those homes that are future-proofed. Moreover, the re-sale potential of future-proofed homes will be perceived by a modern home-buyer as being more valuable than "plain old" homes.

Home Automation is all about technology working for you.
At Acoustic Audio and Vision we can integrate all your home technologies to remove complexity and to combine their functions for ease of control. Integration ensures the technology you own works together without interfacing problems, using everyday components and remotes. Ask our designers what an integrated system can do for your home.

Our staff are trained in AV system design and installation, we are sure that you have used a specialist to design and build your home and therefore it is important to use the same approach for this part of the project.

At AcousticAudio and Vision our design and installation procedures comply with the NZ Code for Residential and SOHO Premises Wiring (“Premises Wiring Code of Practice”).

All too often we are called in to try and rectify installations that other trade professionals have installed who aren’t in the trade but think they are.