Wire your home for outstanding convenience!
Planning is the key when it comes to building or renovating a home — especially if you want to incorporate new technologies that will enhance your lifestyle.
As you'll see, there are many different ways to automate your home. Some are inexpensive and some aren't. Personal preference, budget and needs all play a part in deciding the best route for you to take, and Swired Innovations will be happy to assist you in deciding what is right for you.
Imagine...
Coming home and with a single tap on your entrance touch screen you de-activate the security system, turn up the heat in your house, and turn on the lights to the living room.
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Your house waking you up at night to provide flood warnings or calling you at work to report power failures at home causing loss of freezer contents. You can receive these warnings anywhere in the world and take action.
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Being able to network a computer from any room in the house.
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From your living room accessing your digital pictures and MP3 music files from your computer in the office.
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With the touch of a button dimming the lights, lowering the projector and screen from the ceiling, closing the drapes, and turning on your entertainment system.
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Accessing your security cameras from any internet connection in the world for real time video or review the video log that records when motion is detected.
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The door bell ringing and being able to communicate with them from any phone in the house.
Invest in value — for today and tomorrow
So, you're planning on building or renovating a home and you keep hearing the latest buzzwords about home networking, smart home technology, and home theatre.
What do these mean for you and your house?
Just as the workplace and your car have become reliant on technology, so will the future home. It is important to incorporate the proper “structured” wiring when building or renovating, to take advantage of these emerging technologies.
The wiring of your home provides the foundation for these new technologies, so that even if you don't want the home theatre or network today it still gives you the option down the road.
It will also increase the market value of your home, as people are increasingly beginning to demand the same technologies in their home as is available in the workplace. You can look at it as an investment that will also give you the capability to have a more convenient, safe and enjoyable home life.
Some example of the workplace technologies that are in demand are:
- High-speed Internet access
- Multi-telephone lines
- Computers
- High-quality peripherals such as digital cameras, scanners and printers
All these workplace technologies can be networked throughout your home so that you can access them from any room in the house.
Structured Wiring
Structured Wiring is the systematic layout of cabling infrastructure throughout a house, to combine the wiring for communications, entertainment and security.
The proper structured wiring can work with existing systems, enable changes in technology, and also lay the foundation for the integrated home of the future.
A home that is properly wired will allow you to:
- Play a DVD in one room and watch it on any TV in your home.
- Listen to your stereo from any room in your home.
- Place security cameras at your front door, in the back yard and in the baby's room — and monitor them from anywhere in the home. Or from anywhere in the world, via the Internet!
- Hook multiple computers up to a single internet connection.
- Share files on all computers in the home.
- Share devices such as computer printers and fax machines.
- Have over a dozen different phone lines.
- Easily make adjustments to all of these options as your family's needs change.
- Turn all the lights off in the house from one switch.
How does it work?
It is useful to think of Structured Wiring in terms of your home's electrical system.
Electricity flows into your house through a main power cable; which in turn connects to a circuit breaker box where it is separated and sent down smaller electric lines. These lines wind their way through your walls, ultimately ending at power outlets.
Structured Wiring works in a similar fashion. External data lines come into the home and are connected to a central control box. Within the control box each incoming signal is split and sent down wires to multiple rooms. The central control box should also contain a signal amplifier that ensures the split signals are as strong as the original signal.
From the box, bundles of wires are run to various rooms throughout the home. In a good structured wiring installation these wires will be installed in a "home run" or "star topology" configuration, which means each set of wires runs to a single outlet. This varies from "daisy chaining", which means one line goes from your kitchen, to your living room, to your bedroom in series. Daisy chaining is less expensive, but limits the systems flexibility and any break in the chain could cause home wide problems.
Typically, a structured wiring system should be run to every outlet location in the home and include a minimum of 2 coaxial cables of RG6 quality and 2 twisted pair cables of Cat6 quality.
Components:
The Distribution Panel performs two functions:
- It terminates all the service providers services: telephone, DSL, cable TV and modem and security to a central location.
- It distributes those signals to various locations throughout the home.
Cable runs , that use Cat5e/Cat6/RG6 cabling, distribute signals to audio/visual components, computers, security cameras and motion detectors and ensure that the system can deliver the performance and flexibility you need today and tomorrow.
Multi-media Outlets throughout the home provide for telephone, digital audio, internet, cable TV, satellite, HDTV and security features.
Protect your home from becoming technologically inferior
Structured wiring is about planning for the future. It safeguards your home investment and increases your resale value.
Structured Wiring is about meeting your needs today, and planning for those of tomorrow. Although today you may only require one computer, a properly wired home ensures additional computers can be installed as your family grows and your needs change.
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