Complete Control Throughout The Home With Control4

Control4 is one of the world’s leading complete home automation systems, allowing you to take total control of a huge variety of electronic devices with a single touch, swipe or voice command.

This ‘operating system for the home’ seamlessly connects TV, lighting, security, communications, and entertainment systems not only in the home, but for retail and business premises too. It’s the unified Smart Home system which enhances the experience of all its users by being easy to use, and energy efficient. Control4 integrates and operates with more than 13,000 different third party electronic devices made by a huge range of household name manufacturers including Sonos, Nest, Lutron, Hulu, Napster, Apple Macintosh, Pioneer, Bose, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba.

Control4 Environment, All Working Together, Making Use Ever Easier

Control4 features their own Simple Device Discovery Protocol (SDDP) which makes it incredibly easy for devices to find and connect with one another over your Home Network. This protocol is licensed out to other manufacturers who can them build it into their products, ensuring universal connectivity. Currently SDDP is featured in many hundreds of Smart Home devices as well as many other goods which you wouldn’t necessarily think of as being Smart, including swimming pools, sun shades, awnings, and air conditioners.

As well as using app and voice, Control4 also has a universal remote control. This handset looks exactly like any other TV remote, but it controls everything, so no need for a raft of handsets on the coffee table. Because it’s universal you can use the handset in any room. Since the handset is your interface with your Smart system it makes sense that it is programmable too. Use the customisable buttons to carry out your most frequent requests and a whole sequences of events can be triggered with the press of a single button.

When you go out or go to bed you can turn the house off. This means that all your electronics will go into standby or power down completely, your doors lock, lights go out and alarms arm, making your property as safe as possible.
All of the controls you get through the handset are also available via an app which can be downloaded to your phone or tablet. So no matter how you choose to interface with your devices, you’ll always have your preferred method of control right there in your hand.

Your entire movie collection, music library and satellite TV channels can be shared between devices without the need for a DVD player or set-top box for every TV and hi-fi in the home. Instead you can now use a single digital audio visual player tucked out of the way in a cupboard.

Control4 runs on a platform called 'Pakedge' so while other Smart Home Solutions use more and more of your wifi network the more you add, the Control4 uses a different networking protocol, meaning that you can watch HD movies in one room, listen to streaming music in another and still have no impact on the speed of your internet.

No interruption to wifi means that there is no chance of your security and emergency cameras and alarms facing any difficulties, meaning that Control4 is one of the most secure Smart Home Automation systems you can buy.

Briant Communications are one of the leading Control4 installers in the South East, covering Portsmouth, Worthing, Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, Crawley, Guildford, Royal Tunbridge Wells and London. If you have any queries or need a free, no obligation site visit and estimate then get in touch.