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Part 3 - Getting Started - Three Easy
Steps to the Smart Connected Home
• Step
One - Consultation
•
Step Two - "Pre" Prewire
• Step
Three - Final Installation and Training
Once you have chosen your builder and your home electronics
installer, it's time to start an open dialog among the three
of you to ensure that everyone has a clear understanding of
what you want and expect in your smart connected home. Knowledge
is power. Although your builder and your home electronics
installer will coordinate the timing of the installation of
the electronic systems with each other, it is important that
you understand the timeline so that you can be thinking ahead
about decisions you will need to make.
Ask your builder and installer to agree on some installation
milestones so that the building schedule meets your expectations.
The early planning meetings will also serve as a good time
to collectively decide on your structured wiring needs.
Step
One - Consultation
Before the ground is even broken, you will have met with
your builder, your home electronics installer and any other
critical tradespeople, such as the interior designer and
the lighting designer. Unless you have chosen to act as
the general contractor, your builder will most likely assign
a project manager to coordinate the work of all the subcontractors.
Meetings between you and your electronics installer will
have taken place to carefully go over every aspect of the
proposal and to indicate on the blueprints where every piece
of electronic gear goes and how it will all work together.
Step Two - "Pre" Prewire
It's a good idea to plan a "walk-through" with
your electronics installer or project manager to review
the proposed locations of keypads, lighting controls, thermostats,
entertainment gear, loudspeakers and other electronics.
If you want to change the location of a piece of equipment,
do it before the wiring is installed. Your builder or project
manager and your installer will be in very close contact
during this phase.
Step Three - Final Installation and Training
All the major products, such as home control and whole house
audio/video distribution systems,TVs, home theater gear,
and speakers, are installed and the systems tested by your
installer. The final programming of home control systems
is done. Now it's time for you to be trained on the systems
and make sure that everything meets your expectations.
Part 1 - Hire the Right
Builder to Create Your Smarthome
Part
2 - Finding the right expert
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