Lutron Award Winners

NV Integration is happy to announce we now have received the very best achievement on the 2018 Lutron awards – “Finest HomeWorks QS Undertaking”.

HomeWorks QS is Lutron’s flagship product and is ideally suited to high-end residential homes or flats. Our Siam Sensible Home undertaking was submitted for the awards and we really feel was a worthy winner, with the judges commenting “we’re shocked by the dimensions, scope and complexity of this undertaking”.

That is extremely the fourth award that this undertaking has claimed, having additionally picked up “Finest Built-in Residence over £360,000” and “Know-how Meets Design” on the CEDIA 2017 Awards, and “Finest Residence Cinema” on the Sensible Constructing Awards 2017.

You’ll be able to study extra element about this undertaking and the lengths it took to assert the coveted high prize on the Lutron awards under:

Background

This new construct property which took 5 years within the making, options whole mild management through HomeWorks QS comprising 350 lighting circuits and 85 Sivoia QS Window remedies. The spectacular lighting design employed circuits managed through mains switching, Section Adaptive, 0-10v and DALI Dimming to grasp the designer’s imaginative and prescient.

Owing to the dimensions of the property, the Lutron HomeWorks QS system was break up between seven LCPs, over three areas 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 happy with this undertaking given the logistical problems with delivering a undertaking of this measurement with the geographical, logistical, and language challenges we overcame.

Temporary

The consumer was conversant in good homes as that is their third (NVI additionally take care of their UK property) and was a key a part of the temporary. Wherever potential we have been requested to think about inventive concepts that might present that wow issue and to make this home as ‘one among a sort’ as potential as a result of entertaining is the first perform of this house.

Problem accepted. We designed options that allowed the expertise to be hidden when not in use, but reveal on the contact of a button all from easy and intuitive controls.

The Controls

The undertaking was initially specified by the advisor with different house automation, lighting management, and window remedy programs. After discussing the temporary with the consumer, we wrote a report back to the undertaking crew explaining the disparity between the desired producers and the shortcoming of these to fulfill the shoppers temporary.

At the moment the undertaking was re-specified as Lutron HomeWorks QS for the lighting and window remedy controls, and Crestron for the house automation. NV Integration have been additionally knowledgeable it was not a aggressive tender, however a negotiation for us to undertake the undertaking.

Not content material with the hidden expertise talked about above, we have been tasked to supply bespoke person interplay for management of the system:

Lutron

A home of this stature and up to date type was completely suited to Lutron Palladiom keypads. The consumer cherished the look, really feel, and responsiveness of them. In each room, the lighting and window remedy controls have been built-in into the engraved buttons. As soon as once more going above and past with this undertaking we additionally built-in the air con ‘on/off’ controls into the Palladiom keypads in every zone; this consists of AC suggestions standing because of 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).

Through the use of the intelligence throughout 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 mild created the phantasm of the fish circling above the steps. This stairhall can be notable in that it has 4 Roller100 aspect information wired managed Sivoia QS blinds which drop over 6 metres from the ceiling to the completed flooring stage of the bottom flooring under.

Delving beneath the hood we used Lutron for the ‘heavy obligation’ lifting of the undertaking additionally. The consumer spent tens of hundreds on absolutely 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 pressured into the water through fountains managed from Lutron’s DIN rail switching modules

In such a sizzling local weather Lutron was additionally known 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 sometimes runs on a pre-determined timer relying on the season. By way of the Crestron integration, we have been additionally in a position to take heed to an RSS feed, and in the course of the monsoon season, the sprinklers don’t run if it has rained that day to save lots of water, vitality, and stop over-watering.

Crestron

This included integration with the wine cellars, permitting the Crestron system to maintain monitor of, and present info relating to the wine saved through label digital camera recognition. Plan layouts of every flooring present suggestions as to room standing – exhibiting if the lights or air con have been left on, and the flexibility to modify off on the contact of a button. Plus the a lot used ‘get together mode’ characteristic. These customized designs set the person interplay of this undertaking aside from the standard ‘cookie cutter’ strategy.

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We’re tremendously happy with the accomplishment achieved with this undertaking, in mild of the challenges confronted we turned a big and sophisticated good house, into a straightforward to make use of and seamless expertise for the consumer.

Since completion, we now have been appointed for our third undertaking with the consumer. This can be a mixed-use new construct property in Asia, with industrial workplace area over 5 flooring, and a non-public penthouse house for the consumer on the highest flooring. The complete constructing will likely be managed through a Lutron HomeWorks system, with Sivoia QS window remedies, and Palladiom controls: