NV Integration is happy to announce we’ve gained the very best achievement on the 2018 Lutron awards – “Finest HomeWorks QS Venture”.
HomeWorks QS is Lutron’s flagship product and is ideally suited to high-end residential homes or flats. Our Siam Sensible Home mission was submitted for the awards and we really feel was a worthy winner, with the judges commenting “we’re shocked by the scale, scope and complexity of this mission”.
That is extremely the fourth award that this mission has claimed, having additionally picked up “Finest Built-in Dwelling over £360,000” and “Know-how Meets Design” on the CEDIA 2017 Awards, and “Finest Dwelling Cinema” on the Sensible Constructing Awards 2017.
You may be taught extra element about this mission and the lengths it took to assert the coveted high prize on the Lutron awards beneath:
Background
This new construct property which took 5 years within the making, options whole gentle management by way of HomeWorks QS comprising 350 lighting circuits and 85 Sivoia QS Window remedies. The spectacular lighting design employed circuits managed by way of mains switching, Section Adaptive, 0-10v and DALI Dimming to grasp the designer’s imaginative and prescient.
Owing to the scale of the property, the Lutron HomeWorks QS system was break up between seven LCPs, over three places all through the property. Complementing this are over 25 audio zones and 16 video zones with a Crestron system deployed to permit the matrix switching between sources and outputs. NV Integration is pleased with this mission given the logistical problems with delivering a mission of this measurement with the geographical, logistical, and language challenges we overcame.
Transient
The consumer was conversant in sensible homes as that is their third (NVI additionally take care of their UK property) and was a key a part of the transient. Wherever attainable we had been requested to contemplate inventive concepts that might present that wow issue and to make this home as ‘certainly one of a form’ as attainable as a result of entertaining is the first perform of this dwelling.
Problem accepted. We designed options that allowed the know-how to be hidden when not in use, but reveal on the contact of a button all from easy and intuitive controls.
The Controls
The mission was initially specified by the marketing consultant with different dwelling automation, lighting management, and window remedy methods. After discussing the transient with the consumer, we wrote a report back to the mission group explaining the disparity between the desired producers and the lack of these to satisfy the shoppers transient.
At the moment the mission was re-specified as Lutron HomeWorks QS for the lighting and window remedy controls, and Crestron for the house automation. NV Integration had been additionally knowledgeable it was not a aggressive tender, however a negotiation for us to undertake the mission.
Not content material with the hidden know-how talked about above, we had been tasked to supply bespoke person interplay for management of the system:
Lutron
A home of this stature and modern type was completely suited to Lutron Palladiom keypads. The consumer beloved the look, really feel, and responsiveness of them. In each room, the lighting and window remedy controls had been built-in into the engraved buttons. As soon as once more going above and past with this mission we additionally built-in the air-con ‘on/off’ controls into the Palladiom keypads in every zone; this consists of AC suggestions standing due to the illuminated textual content. This two-way suggestions is at all times responsive, even when the AC is managed from one other supply (Crestron, or producers proprietary controls).
By utilizing the intelligence inside the LQSE-2DAL-D module we created an unimaginable sequencing impact in the primary stair corridor. The idea was to simulate a shoal of fish swimming upstream and was executed by illuminating the suitable downlight in timed order above the glassfish in order that the mirrored gentle created the phantasm of the fish circling above the steps. This stairhall can be notable in that it has 4 Roller100 facet information wired managed Sivoia QS blinds which drop over 6 metres from the ceiling to the completed ground degree of the bottom ground beneath.
Delving underneath the hood we used Lutron for the ‘heavy obligation’ lifting of the mission additionally. The consumer spent tens of 1000’s on totally developed grownup Koi Carp to populate the stream which hugs the circumference of the constructing. These ponds wanted strictly timed oxygenation to maintain the fish alive, and the air was compelled into the water by way of fountains managed from Lutron’s DIN rail switching modules
In such a scorching local weather Lutron was additionally referred to as upon for integrating the sprinkler system. This may be actioned or suspended (in case the consumer is utilizing the backyard) from the Palladiom keypads, however usually runs on a pre-determined timer relying on the season. By the Crestron integration, we had been additionally in a position to hearken to an RSS feed, and throughout the monsoon season, the sprinklers don’t run if it has rained that day to avoid wasting water, power, and stop over-watering.
Crestron
This included integration with the wine cellars, permitting the Crestron system to maintain monitor of, and present data concerning the wine saved by way of label digicam recognition. Plan layouts of every ground present suggestions as to room standing – displaying if the lights or air-con have been left on, and the flexibility to change off on the contact of a button. Plus the a lot used ‘occasion mode’ characteristic. These customized designs set the person interplay of this mission other than the standard ‘cookie cutter’ strategy.
Abstract
We’re tremendously pleased with the accomplishment achieved with this mission, in gentle of the challenges confronted we turned a big and complex sensible dwelling, into a straightforward to make use of and seamless expertise for the consumer.
Since completion, we’ve been appointed for our third mission with the consumer. It is a mixed-use new construct property in Asia, with industrial workplace house over 5 flooring, and a non-public penthouse residence for the consumer on the highest ground. Your entire constructing might be managed by way of a Lutron HomeWorks system, with Sivoia QS window remedies, and Palladiom controls:
