A four bedroom house in Berkshire, 2,240 sq ft (208 m²), already full of quality kit: Somfy roller blinds, Velux blinds, a Honeywell thermostat, several air conditioning units, CCTV.
None of it talked to anything else. Twenty-plus remotes and a screen of manufacturer apps, each covering one product and nothing more. Wifi dropped on the first floor and barely reached the outdoor gym.
The client did not want a rip-out. They wanted the equipment they had already paid for to behave as one system, and they wanted their data to stay in the building.
| System | Specified and installed |
|---|---|
| Control platform | SH-Pro running locally on site, with a personalised 3D Spatial Digital Twin of the property |
| Network | Ubiquiti UniFi with three wireless access points covering every floor, the garden and the outdoor gym |
| Power resilience | UPS protecting the network core and the control system |
| Existing devices | Somfy and Velux blinds, Honeywell thermostat, air conditioning units, CCTV and televisions integrated as they stood |
| Security | Texecom Premier Elite panel with multiple Capture motion detectors, monitored and armed from SH-Pro |
| Cameras and access | Hikvision cameras and a Reolink video doorbell, 10 cameras in total |
| Sensors | Door and window contacts, motion, temperature, water leak and CO² sensors |
| Automation | Over 50 routines across lighting, blinds, climate, security and energy |
Integration on an unreliable network produces an unreliable system. The first floor dropouts and the dead outdoor gym were fixed before a single device was integrated.
Three Ubiquiti UniFi access points, positioned from the layout rather than from guesswork, cover every floor, the garden and the gym on one continuous network.
Somfy blinds, Velux blinds, the Honeywell thermostat, the air conditioning units, the CCTV and the televisions were brought onto one platform as they stood. No hardware was replaced to make integration easier.
Over 80 devices now answer to one interface. Blinds, heating and air conditioning share the same schedules, so the house stops cooling a room it is already heating.
SH-Pro's 3D Spatial Digital Twin was built to this property. The screen shows the house, and control happens by touching the room rather than working down a list of device names.
Blinds, climate, cameras, alarm status and sensors sit on the room they belong to. Anyone in the household can use it without a handover session.
A Texecom Premier Elite panel with multiple Capture motion detectors provides layered internal protection. Ten Hikvision cameras and a Reolink video doorbell cover the outside.
The alarm is armed, disarmed and monitored from SH-Pro alongside everything else, so security is not the one system that still needs its own app.
