Structured Wiring

Structured wiring offers clients the ability to wire their homes with cables for video, telephone, data, entertainment, management, automation, and control. Everything is run through the inside of the walls, eliminating visible wires. Rooms can contain enough outlets to give clients the maximum use of the wiring, both now and for the future. This means you can finally put the television anywhere you want, regardless of where the cable comes into the house and you will have the flexibility to expand with your family's future growing needs.

Structured wiring is a concept that anticipates the present and future electronic needs for every room of your household. Structured wiring systems can be thought of as the electronic backbone or foundation for your home.

As telecommuting grows in popularity, digital and High Definition television becomes the standard, and the Internet and TV signals integrate and become staple items in American households, "future-proof" wiring techniques become a necessity for anyone building a home today. The research firm, Parks Associates, reported that 48% of all new homes will be pre-wired with structured wiring by this year (2004).

Structured wiring opens many possibilities for homes. Television can be networked to allow everyone in your house to watch the same show from a single DVD player. Your computers can be networked to share files, internet connections, and even a common printer. Home offices can be built with separate phone lines for voice, fax, modem, computer networking, and rooms can be prepared for both cable and satellite reception. These are just a few examples.

A home built with structured wiring can be added to gradually, as client needs and budgets allow, but the backbone wiring infrastructure must be there since day one. The wiring for structured wiring should be installed before you fill your wall cavities with insulation and cover them with drywall. After the structured wiring is in place, systems can be developed at whatever pace suits the client's needs.

Smart Wire Solutions can design and install there structure wiring systems at pennies per square foot of new home construction.

Whole Home Audio (Music) and Video

Enjoying music in every room of the house is simple enough: You plop down a few boom boxes or string a little speaker wiring, and presto, your entire house sings. But that's hardly the best way to tune a new home. When walls are open during construction is prime time to have Smart Wire Solutions, Inc. pull wiring to all corners of the house. Because of this, and a growing consumer demand for whole-house music, more and more builders are offering to have Smart Wire Solutions, Inc. pre-wire a house for sound.

Rooms to which wire is commonly run include the family room, the kitchen, the master bedroom, the master bath, and the patio. After the wire is installed, it's often your call. You leave the wire behind the walls and later have Smart Wire Solutions, Inc. add speakers. A more economical and elegant choice is to have Smart Wire Solutions, Inc. attach speakers right away. That way, they can easily be built into the walls and ceilings, creating a clean music listening environment.

Of course, speakers are only part of the sound solution. Clients will also need a receiver, an amplifier, and, of course, a CD player (or some other music source such as a digital audio server).

Even if your builder hasn't caught on to the whole-house music trend, it's just as easy to hire Smart Wire Solutions, Inc.'s professional audio/video consultants and installers to handle the job. They will work seamlessly with your builder throughout the project and you will have greater control of the outcome. In fact, Smart Wire Solutions, Inc. will probably offer more speaker and equipment choices and suggest great ways to customize the system to suit your home and your taste in music. Just be sure to request Smart Wire Solutions, Inc. early enough in the planning stage to allow them and the builder to communicate right away, so that the whole-house music system fits into the construction schedule and the home's architectural style.

Whole House Music offers, from a single source, and with a keypad, touch screen, or volume control in each room (zone), clients can hear and control music throughout the home. One person listens to Bach in the living room, while another works out to more rhythmic riffs in the rec room. Speakers by the pool can be built into walls or take the appearance of rocks in the garden.

More advanced systems will allow clients to manage their CD and DVD library through their computer or a touch screen in the room - choose a title from hundreds of compact discs or MP3 tracks and play it automatically. Music can help shape the mood for every area.

Home Theater / Surround Sound

The term home theater is a very relative term. The smallest level of home theater consists of a hi-fi VCR, and a stereo TV. All that is needed is wiring to run from place to place in order to connect everything. However, when someone mentions the words "home theater", it is understood that there is at least a 27" TV, a Dolby Pro-Logic receiver, and a Hi-Fi VCR. The bare bones, for the speaker set-up is a four speaker set-up: Left and Right for the front, a Center speaker, and a Surround Speaker. More commonly you will find two surround speakers as well as an independent subwoofer, as well as Laserdisc player or DVD player. With all of these combined, you will be in a pretty good home theater set-up.

The highest-level home theaters can easily reach prices upwards of $50,000. These usually consist of Data-grade or Graphics-Grade Front Projectors as well as a high-precision screen. The speakers that are chosen for these theaters are very often THX certified. There are usually at least 2 powered subwoofers, and five or even seven or more speakers throughout the room. A separate processor and amplifiers power each of the speaker, rather than a receiver handling all of the speakers. As for the room itself, it is usually decorated with curtains, plush seats, and sound absorbing wall treatments, as well as a system center that has EVERYTHING in one spot, including lighting. Some people go even as far as to have a "lobby" outside their theater. Anyone who achieves this level of home theater is DEFINITELY a fanatic.

The whole purpose of home theater is to have a nice big picture, as well as deep-bass handling sound and surround sound. A very good home theater set-up will rival or even beat out the local movie theater in terms of quality of picture and sound.

If a home theater simply the ability to listen to movies in Surround Sound is what you aspire for, Smart Wire Solutions, Inc. can help. They have access to components, speakers, and packages from a few hundred to many thousands of dollars. The only limiting factor is usually the client's budgets and imagination.

Lighting Control

One of the most important aspects in creating a beautiful home is lighting design. At Smart Wire we work with you and your architect to provide a wide variety of lighting features for your home that will enhance your decor and provide you with the highest level of sophistication and flexibility.

Control and monitor the light in your home from one or more Master Control locations.
Create a path of light by simply pressing one or more Master Control buttons to light a pathway through your home, i.e. from your master bedroom to the kitchen.  Consolidate switching with sleek Master Controls that reduce the number of switches on your walls for a clean attractive appearance. Create preset scenes of lighting that match your activities and mood and that can be recalled with a touch of a Master Control button. Save energy with a glance at the Master Control which shows what lights are on, enabling you to turn all lights off with a touch of a button. Increase security in emergencies by simply pushing the ALL-ON button to illuminate all home lights, or integrate your lighting and security systems for peace of mind. Use vacation mode lighting by having your system replay your lighting patterns to simulate occupancy.

As a dealer for many varied companies, Smart Wire Solutions designs the system for you as well as trains the electrical contractor to do the installation. We also provide system programming and support for your home.