Lakeside living should be effortless. It shouldn’t take three remotes, two apps, and a switch to create the perfect environment for sitting down to watch a movie. This disjointed living happens when you add smart gadgets, each with its own app and logic, with no way to get them to play nice with each other. How do you create a more efficient system in your Lake of the Ozarks property? With smart home integration. 

When you only have a weekend at your lake home, time is precious. You don’t want to waste it managing your technology. With smart home integration, we place all your technology under one system, so at the press of a button, your home is ready for you. Even pull up your phone on the drive out from the city to get everything prepped for your arrival! 

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Are Your Smart Devices Talking to Each Other?

The current state in many homes is a mess of different standalone technologies. There’s a Sonos app for music, a Nest app for the thermostat, a streaming remote for Apple TV, and a separate Lutron Casetta app for lighting. It takes a manual to teach guests how to pull up Netflix on the media room TV or dim the porch lights. 

Fragmentation doesn’t just make it easier to find the controls you need; it also limits the number of automations you can add to your smart home. Your security system can’t communicate with your TV to pause when someone rings the doorbell. Your smart thermostat can’t communicate with your motorized shades to close at the hottest time of day.  

These types of partnerships are made possible with smart home integration. And, often, you can keep smart devices you already use but integrate them into a unified platform like Savant. 

What Does Unified Control Look Like?

Once you have a unified control interface, you can throw away that guest manual. All your technology is easy to manage from one app, touchscreen, keypad, or voice command. Create clearly labeled scenes that make it easy for first-time guests to know how to watch movies or lock up when they leave. Or better yet, schedule them to happen at a given time each day. Some common scenes include: 

• Good Morning: Motorized shades rise, thermostat turns up, lights warm up gradually, and a morning playlist starts in the bathroom and kitchen. 
• Good Night: All lights turn off, doors lock, security arms, thermostat sets to sleep mode, and shades close. 
• Leaving: A single button press on a keypad by the front door activates security cameras, adjusts the climate to an energy-saving mode, and verifies all entry points are locked. 

An added benefit is remote access to all your technology, particularly important if your Lake of the Ozarks property is a vacation home. It’s easy to check in, adjust settings, and confirm security status at any time, from anywhere. 

Why is a Professional Needed for Smart Home Integration? 

You can’t just download the Savant app and add your smart devices to it. All components need to be programmed to communicate with each other from the ground up. And day-to-day reliability relies on a strong, hard-wired framework. At 3D Smart Homes, we take a three-phase approach to all our projects – Discover, Design, and Deploy.