Solutions

We offer a wide range of options to deliver your automation and digital home requirements. Please contact us to arrange a demonstration of our system, discuss your requirements, collect the drawings for your property or arrange a site survey.

Home Automation

We can design systems to integrate, control and / or manage all the technological products in your property if required.

We offer a range of our own control systems to allow you to manage a wide range of disparate technologies from a single point. Our systems integrate via a number of different protocols including Ethernet, RS232, USB, Radio Frequency and Infra Red, allowing you to enjoy your technology wherever, however and whenever you want. Integration options include:

• Environmental requirements such as heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC), lights, appliances, curtains and blinds.
• Communications such as telephone, email, Internet, intercom, and video conferencing.
• Entertainment systems such as TV, satellite, DVD, audio and home cinema.
• Security systems such as the alarm, digital surveillance, and access control.

We produce customized solutions for the above based on your requirements and budget utilizing a standardized portfolio of products that are tried and tested.

Lighting

Light can be the most crucial factor in the interior design of a home yet it is frequently overlooked. Good lighting changes the perceptions of light and space, enhancing features, and creating moods.

Control systems, networking and infrastructure can be simple or sophisticated but do need to be considered right from the beginning of the project. Programmed lighting controllers can create multiple moods at the touch of a button and with the use of dimmers and colour can change the function and feel of any space. Our designers are able to produce stunning lighting schemes for the interior and exterior of your home, using a variety of lighting technologies including dimming of incandescent, halogen, LED and fluorescent lights as well as DMX control for colour-wash lighting.

Digital Surveillance

e-Home are adept in the design, installation and maintenance of digital surveillance systems. Video tape and camera film (CCTV) are being rapidly replaced by digital media which provide a host of practical advantages such as:

• Saves time retrieving and reviewing footage.
• User friendly interfaces.
• Network connectivity allows images to be viewed remotely online.
• Digital footage can be easily distributed (e.g. by email, burned to disk or saved to memory stick).
• Better image quality
• Set the system to record only on motion detection – only record when something is happening, saving storage space and time reviewing footage.
• No image degradation.
• Images from multiple sites can be monitored simultaneously.

We can install bespoke, fully scalable digital surveillance solutions that are specifically designed to suit your particular security needs.

Security

The security of your home is paramount, and the design, specification, functionality and integration of the systems can be tailored to your specific needs.

Access control, digital surveillance and home automation can be integrated together, allowing you to view who is at the door or on your premises from any room in the house, or anywhere in the world. Detection systems for fire and intrusion can be linked to lighting systems to increase visibility. We can also add additional security features such as occupancy simulation when you are away from your property.

Our design team can provide a full range of detection, protection and alarm solutions based around your requirements.

Curtains and Blinds

We specialize in automated curtain and blind systems. Our systems are made by some of the most respected and trusted companies in the industry, with many decades' experience of producing high-quality window treatments. We offer a range of different solutions for different needs and applications, all of which can be stand-alone or integrated into your home automation system. We utilize the very finest components from the best suppliers in the world. All our curtain and blind systems are of the highest quality and are made-to-measure for your installation.

Multi-Room AV & Hi-Fi

Multi-room audio / video systems allow you to enjoy your media from anywhere in your home. Whether you have MP3, DAB, Internet Radio, CD, DVD, Satellite, Cable or digital media, a multi-room solution will allow you to listen to any source in any room at any time. Discreet wall or ceiling speakers and amplifiers, in conjunction with local control interfaces, removes the need for installing unsightly equipment in every room.

We can provide solutions that will allow easy control of your music in every room from basic local volume control to source and zone control. Whether you want to have the same source in every room for parties and entertaining or different sources in every room depending on the diverse tastes of your family, we have the solution for you. Media Servers allow you to share audio, video, photographs and data files in every room in the house and remove the need to install expensive and bulky hardware in every room.

Our technology partners include Intel, Opus Technologies and Microsoft.

AV and Home Cinema

Home cinema is an important component in the home experience and e-Home have unique and exciting methods for integration. Integrating these items into a home needs to be planned at the earliest stages of a project for a clean installation. Cabling for surround speakers and distributed video needs to be installed during the first fix of the building works.

Our designers will create custom cabinets in a centralized location to enclose all your AV hardware. Programmed keypads and universal remote controls dispose of the need to use individual equipment remotes and interface with hidden receivers for simple, intuitive control of your AV hardware.

Plasma screens, LCD TVs and projectors can be wall, ceiling or pedestal mounted to make bold statements. They can even be built into wall cavities and furniture and automated to become available on demand and then disappear when not required.

We will endeavor to ensure that the solution you buy today will be compatible with new standards, such as HDTV, and also provide sufficient cabling for future-proofing so that new hardware can be added easilt as technology progresses..

Networks

The success of any home technology solution is based around the infrastructure that it is built on. The ability to stream audio, video and data around a building, quickly and without interference is key. e-Home use wireless networks where appropriate but always use a hardwired solution for the critical components of the systems we provide.

The network needs to be able to support the levels of activity today but also be able to cope with the demands of new technologies as they become available. e-Home will discuss your requirements to ensure your home is ready for HDTV, IP TV, Voice-Over-IP, Broadband and Multi-room audio / video.

Our networks are built around industry standard protocols and managed using hardware from the leading manufacturers, including Cisco and Linksys.

Media Center

Enjoy your entire digital entertainment library in full glory on your PC or even on your TV with our Media Center solution. View your photos in a cinematic slide show, browse your music collection by cover art, play DVDs, watch and record TV shows, download movies, and view your home videos — then pass the remote to let friends and family join in the fun!

e-Home Media Centers are very popular all-in-one entertainment devices that allow you to access music, photos, TV, movies, and the latest in online media all from the comfort of your couch with a remote control. You can even control your home and view digital surveillance using the latest e-Home Control software.

e-Home Lifestyle

Control all the elements of your smart home from one place - either locally or remotely. Choose one, some or all of our interfaces to interact with your system. Changes of the state of devices (e.g. on, off, dimming levels of lights) is automatically communicated to the other interfaces, ensuring that the true state of your home is reflected to all users at any time. Elements of the e-Home Lifestyle range include:

• e-Home Control software: Includes the main home automation server which enables you to control your home from anywhere in the world.
• e-Home Digital Surveillance: Interfaces your digital surveillance software into your control hardware.
• Touch-screens: The ultimate addition to your home. Integrates all aspects of home control, including lighting, appliance and climate control, audio, security and digital surveillance.