Crestron: The Power of Smart Automated Living
Elevating Ease, Well-Being, and Beauty with Crestron Home
In modern homes, low-voltage wiring and internet connectivity have become as essential as electricity and plumbing. The reason? Smart homes are no longer a “wish for” element or innovative trend in the latest home design. Instead, this in-demand technology is becoming the norm.
Walk into any big box store, and you’ll find aisles of smart home devices. From smart lighting and speakers to thermostats and security cameras, more people than ever are turning to these connected devices to make their lives easier and more convenient.
This experience, however, is far different from living in a Crestron smart home, where all systems work together to create an automated ecosystem that is effortlessly managed. Here, we’ll explore what it’s like to live in an environment managed by Crestron Home.
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Effortlessly Managing a Smart Home
As an industry-leading brand, Crestron has been involved in automated technology for over 50 years. In 2019, it introduced Crestron Home, delivering an intuitive, seamless smart home experience. Since then, it has gone through dozens of updates, ultimately allowing single-touch control and automation of a home’s lighting, shades, climate, security, home entertainment, and more.
This easy-to-use interface, which comes in the form of touchscreens, a universal remote, keypads, and the mobile app, allows users to customize their smart home functions, including scheduling and automation. The touchscreens also act as a whole-home paging system, allowing users to make announcements to the entire family or specific rooms.
Quick Actions for Personalized Aesthetics
Crestron’s Quick Actions transform your environment with a single tap. For instance, pressing “Welcome Home” may turn on the entryway and first-floor lights, adjust the thermostat, and stream your favorite song through the whole-home audio system.
Tapping “Entertain” creates the ideal setting for hosting dinners or casual get-togethers. This may include transforming lights to candlelight, warming the home, streaming the perfect playlist in every room and outdoor space, and igniting the fireplace and outdoor fire features.
By creating dozens of scenes like these, tailored to your lifestyle, the perfect setting is just one touch away.
Automation for the Ultimate Smart Home Experience
By automating routines, you experience a smart home that creates the ideal ambiance with no effort on your part. At dawn, the shades rise, the bedroom lights emulate sunrise, and the kitchen TV turns on the morning news.
This automation extends to varying activities and time of day, including pulling into the driveway after dark, sitting down to dinner, and settling into your family’s weekly movie night.
The Home as an Oasis
More homeowners than ever are looking for ways to create healthier, relaxing home environments where well-being takes precedence. Crestron Home supports wellness by elevating lighting, acoustics, and climate.
It manages natural light, automatically opening the shades to let in diffuse sunlight. This light increases serotonin, a feel-good hormone that reduces anxiety, regulates sleep, and promotes feelings of well-being.
It replicates natural light using the Crestron SolarSync® photosensor, which captures the sun’s actual color and intensity. As it analyzes the changing color of daylight, it directs your home’s indoor lighting to match the world outside your windows. This tunable LED lighting regulates the body’s circadian rhythm, promoting a healthier sleep-wake cycle.
Enhanced Peace of Mind
Smart home security is one of today’s most sought-after features. Crestron provides greater safety and security by giving you access to your home from anywhere in the world. Continuous feedback on your mobile device shows the position of your garage and gates, as well as the status of alarms and door locks. Smart security cameras send alerts when something out of the ordinary occurs, and real-time video views are available instantly.
Working with Hippo’s
As professional integrators, we help our clients determine the right starting point for their needs and preferences. While some want to embrace smart home living and all it has to offer, others prefer to start with lighting and shades, or home entertainment, and take it one automated step at a time.
While Crestron technology is available for both new builds and finished-home retrofits, these homes require different design, product, installation, and programming strategies. We’ll also explore your budget, timeline, and what solutions would make the most significant difference in your life.
To learn more about living in a Crestron smart home, contact Hippo’s.
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