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Information and Tech news of the Smart Home world Time Turn your Home – “SMART” Learn why you need to go Smart Today It’s time to change your switches Time to ditch your ancient looking switches to modern smart How IQ Panel 4 with Alarm.com services makes your home smarter The importance of one platform Why Control4 is the perfect platform to integrate all devices. Extend your smart home luxuries to the outdoors Make your back yard the perfect gathering spot Multi-room A/V & Home Theatre A properly set up smart entertainment system will transform your entertainment experience. Why choose SmartVolt for your next Smart Home project..?

We’ve already been discussing the benefits of setting up your home to be a smart home, but how do you wield such great power? This is where the Control4 system comes into play. One of the major reasons to work with us is the fact that we want to centralize everything for you from the beginning. If you decide to expand on the features and come back to us, it is always easier for us to program new features and expansions to your existing system, because we already built your Control4 centralized command center. What is Control4? It is where we will integrate all of your smart home features and centralize them into what is called a Smart Home OS. It will manage all aspects of your home, from your lights to converse power when not in use and brighten up your entrance when you return home, to the management of all your locks and cameras to provide peace of mind and security. In addition, depending on how much you will set up, it can help regulate the temperature throughout the day, and always make sure to be at that perfect degree whenever you are home. We also help control your blinds/shades to provide the most optimal lighting and energy efficiency. Our hardware that lets you access the OS includes wall-mounted or tabletop touch screens as well as NEEO remotes to manage your home theater systems. We utilize this tool to help integrate with your audio/video needs and place a master touch screen remote for all your speaker’s subwoofers, and receivers, categorized by the location and room that they are in, while also controlling the output of all your smart TVs. It doesn’t stop here as we also integrate your doorbell and video intercom to this Home OS, enabling remote communications for packages when you aren’t there. Cool – what types of equipment are needed? That’s the beauty of this. As long as it is on one platform, we set it up to work across tens of thousands of devices. We also help set up touch screens and keypads strategically across your home, so that you can easily access all the features that you need. From setting up security features to adjusting the mood lighting and music in a specific room for a night of romance, to having different rooms have different music styles for those parties you love to organize. The more you convert your home into a smart home, the more synergies become available, and thus the more possibilities happen. To add to this, we make sure that we will always work on not making your home look like a robot lives there, as we care about the …

Your smart home redesign doesn’t stop within the four main walls of your home. It is everywhere you will be at home, including the outdoor area. This part is just as important to us as setting up your home inside. This is also one of the areas that is forgotten once a smart home upgrade is done because most people don’t think to seem it is possible or worthwhile. Also, what would be done outside right? A lot of things, to quickly answer that question. Audio Placement Here we help select the best speakers for your outdoor use. We work with the best high-quality speaker designers and work with you to place them in locations that are out of sight and out of mind but will always work perfectly once we sync them up. We work with landscape speakers that will blend with the aesthetic you have set up outside.  We make sure to work with the placement that will best handle the fluctuating weather that can occur in Canada, and also work on showing you how to place them in a way to protect them from the elements. You can blast the speakers for a barbeque party turned nightclub or create a relaxing and soothing ambiance for friends and family to enjoy a nice evening outside. Visual Perfection We help select, install and sync up to your existing smart home infrastructure the perfect visual partner. We work with selected brands that are meant to deal with the elements and are actually weatherproof, so you can enjoy the big game, or the fantastical movie, come rain or shine. For those days where the sun is shining, but you want to still enjoy your television, we also ensure that all the screens are built with an anti-glare display, so you can still enjoy the harmonious blend of nature and technology Whole-Home Wifi We do not stop at having the best WIFI connection the one closest to the router, but we focus on your entire home always having maximum signal, when possible, through our extensive knowledge and usage of extenders and repeaters. This does not end with the outdoors area, and we make sure to extend your WIFI outside, and will always confirm the strength with you before leaving. We don’t just put blocky white access points outside, but make sure they also blend to the aesthetic you are looking for, similar to how we will handle our speaker system. This means you can sit comfortably on the hammock by your fence, and still stream your favorite videos. As mentioned above, we also make sure that this syncs up perfectly with your entire system and can be controlled by the master app …

So you bought enough TVs to open up your own electronics store. You wanted to make sure that there was one in the living room, the bedroom, maybe even in the game room or den. It’s important to be able to have that separate space for family members from time to time. Sometimes we cannot all agree on what to watch on Netflix.You plug in your HDMI cable and start watching something, but you notice something is off, it doesn’t feel as mesmerizing as you expected it to be. Or you’re trying to play online with your friends and you don’t feel like you’re really IN the game.Let us help set up your entire audio-video home theatre system. Where to start? The sooner you contact us before you make any purchases the better. There is no one size fits all solution so we would want to see what the prospective layout would be and how best to build your AV needs in your home. We have seen numerous configurations and will provide you with our expert eye on how to optimize your multi-home theatre system. We also help unify the entire system into a single app, so you can make modifications and adjustments in the specific room as you are there, simply with the power of your smartphone. We can also help set up all the entertainment streaming services and join them within all the different rooms and locations. Audio Choices We can select the best quality surround sound speakers, bass bars, and other audio-related hardware to fit any budget and any household. We don’t stop there and make sure we have everything properly connected to the visual displays as well as easily synced to your single app so that you can adjust the volumes and surround sound settings to your heart’s content.Is the volume too loud? Or the volume is too metallic? We also help configure and select the best type of acoustic sound panels for each room. They will not only help dampen and absorb the sound but also build a theatre quality reverb, so you never have to go to the movies again if you do not want to. Video Possibilities Do not simply stop at buying a smart TV on sale. If you have a gaming room, den, or spare garage, consider using an HD projector setup. We help find the best quality projectors, install them, and make sure you have the right projector screen. Why watch TV on a 55-inch television when you can go up to 138 inches and beyond. We can wall mount them, or help set up a short-throw projector, so you can use the space for other things when not watching …

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