Through Baker Stone Recommends, we have been recommending the best smart home technologies and accessory integrations for several years now, as well as installing and integrating them. Here are the top eight suggestions we have sussed out in that time:
1: The AVA Home Remote
The AVA Home Remote is one of the most successful flexible touch screen smart home controllers in the market. Put simply, it works incredibly well and combines with almost any smart home accessory. It also integrates the Google user interface and Play Store, meaning anyone who can use a mobile phone can use the AVA.
It’s hard to keep track of the number of times the Baker Stone team has been held back by the limitations of proprietary control systems, so something like this is an important addition to the market.
2: Gude Power Distribution and Management Systems
Home cinemas are the Hollywood superstars of the home automation industry. Like all true superstars, they need an entourage of support staff, or support machines, to keep them looking and sounding fabulous. Gude Systems provides some of the most reliable, flexible and efficient audiovisual support machines around , including the incredibly useful Gude power distribution unit (PDU).
Specifically, they provide outstanding PDUs and remote monitoring systems that allow us to install and manage home cinemas, smart TVs and other audiovisual devices effectively.
3: Lutron Homeworks QSX & QS
For a long time, Lutron has set the pace for premium smart lighting.
If you are looking to create a truly beautiful smart home with amazing aesthetic experiences, Lutron HomeWorks QS is the way to do it.
When it comes to automating your home and creating a smart home control system, there are a variety of options, each with different strengths and weaknesses. However, Lutron HomeWorks goes beyond pretty lights and provides a complete home automation solution that also creates superior scenes with automatic lighting.
3b: Eight Reasons to Upgrade to Lutron HomeWorks QSX
For Lutron lovers wondering why to upgrade, users of other brands thinking of switching, or those new to smart homes and smart lighting, we created a list of reasons why it's investing in the new Lutron HomeWorks QSX system.
4: Amina Mobius and Edge
Amina may have solved a problem that music lovers have been facing since the ‘50s. In the world of speakers, bigger is better, but nothing will ruin a calm lounge or dining room like massive stacks of woofers and tweeters. Amina Mobius and Amina Edge's implementation of invisible, in-wall speaker technology with sober discretion and ultra-high definition may be the answer to music lovers’ prayers.
5: The Ekinex Signum
Controlling our environment has been important since time immemorial. This is doubly true for our homes. With its small, beautiful and supremely functional heating control panels, Ekinex’s new Signum virtual switch is some distance ahead of the competition. It’s the first touchscreen that is light-switch-sized and can control most of the functions of a modern smart home.
6: Gallo Acoustics
Gallo Acoustics are another speaker company whose constricted geometry has pushed the boundaries of what we thought was possible, while exciting audiophiles in the process. Their cute, four-to-eleven-inch spheres can produce clear audio that sounds 5 to 10 times as big as they are.
The company’s S2 technology replaces the traditional magnet setup with a semi-spherical layer of material that expands when electricity is passed through it and is then pulled back into shape, creating expansive sound in a small space. This could be the end of rattle and hum. So, if you still haven’t found what you’re looking in a speaker, try this one with pride. It may move in mysterious ways, but it will help you have a beautiful day, whether you’re listening to U2 or anything else.
7: Polar Bear Design Thermostats
As with so many things we like, Polar Bear are all about bespoke system design in terms of both form and function. The Zentium and Ursium thermostats offer a wide variety of control panel options that can be further adapted to suit any system. They can also be presented in a range of characterful finishes. The function of the control system can be adapted as well, and there are many options for integration.
8: Pulse-Eight
Pulse-Eight helped satisfy a demanding generation’s audio-visual needs, as well as us who serve them. The system’s intelligent approach to solving the problems of professionals like us is what sells their tech. Let’s face it – we all love having people dedicated to our needs.
The only thing we love more than this, and we know other tech installers of all types are with us here, is a remote fix. Pulse-Eight makes these more realistic and reliable in more situations, so for that, we raise our office teacups to them.
A Final Recommendation – Install your smart home systems with the ultimate integrators – Baker Stone
When you have chosen the best of the best of smart home systems and accessories, thanks to Baker Stone Recommends, it makes sense to install them with the best integrators, too. Contact Baker Stone below to arrange a personal survey meeting.
