Re: Installers advice needed, home less than 1000 sf

["Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"toni maroni" wrote:
>
> As I see it, there are lots of question on the groups for home
> automation for individual houses with more then 3000 sf.  But I
> have 5 approximately 900 sf apartments in one house and as I see it
> there are some problems.
>
> First, I can't have always-on PC because of a problem with space in
> each apartment. I was thinking of using some sort of home
> automation controller like Cortexa, Homeseer or Control4. Are there
> any others? But the price of single controller to be in every
> apartment is just to high for controlling only 3 scene switches,
> temperature (HVAC), door camera, access via mobile phone and few
> door/window sensors.

ELK Products makes an ELK-M1G home automation controller.  It is
partitionable so that it behaves as though you have from 1 to 8
separate controllers.  You connect sensors and output devices as
needed and assign each to a partition.  You can set up common areas
(lobby, basement, laundry room) which are accessible to all tenants.
Each apartment has its own keypad.  Each tenant's user code works
only in his apartment.  You would have a master code so that you can
service the system.

> I was thinking of buying only one good (high tech) controller and
> control the whole house (5*900=4500 sf) but separate it on 5
> individual zones (apartments) with shared security, weather
> station, surveillance (camera and sensors), light on staircase and
> so on. But with individual/separated light control (scene), HVAC,
> mobile phone, internet access, drape control (connected with a
> weather station) in every apartment. Are there any controllers able
> to do that?

ELK can do all of that.  There are modules, interfaces and sensors
available to operate just about anything.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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