Welcome to the simpleHome blog!
Posted by Mark Komanecky on Tue, Jun 09, 2009 @ 02:41 PM
The simpleHome team is looking forward to staying in touch with our clients, partners, architects and designers, custom builders, and other interested parties via our new blog. Over the last few months, we have been very busy developing our new web site and we think you will like what you see. We will continue to enhance and expand our site with more infomation on our latest projects, new partnerships, and our emerging work in the energy management area.
Our new web site is not as "flashy" as our previous one, but it will be much easier to find us on the Internet. That is because we have made it much more "search friendly" for Google and the other major search engines.
Now for a bit of news.....we are very excited to be featured in the Project Gallery section on Control4's web site. They selected simpleHome because of our work on a challenging project in rural Connecticut. You can find out more details by clicking here. As you can see, this is a example of how we can integrate smart home and home enertainment technology into an existing home--even in an almost 300 year old farmhouse.
simpleHome worked in conjunction with Control4 to equip the home of techology industry analyst Danny Briere. We installed many of our coolest features, including whole house music, whole house video, lighting control, video cameras and even a driveway sensor to alert the Briere's that someone is entering their driveway.
The Briere's home is located in a rural area of New England where milk is still delivered, so we equipped their milkbox with a Control4 sensor and they now get an alert that says "you've got milk!" One more feature the kids like....they each hear the song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" at 6:30 AM every school morning.
The Briere family is thrilled to be living in an 18th century home filled with 21st century technology!
Just a quick note on Danny Briere....he is the CEO of TeleChoice, a leading strategy and advisory firm and also the co-author of several books on home technology, including Smart Homes for Dummies, Home Theater for Dummies, and HDTV for Dummies. You can find a list of all his "Dummies" books on the Digital Dummies web site.