One layer over everything else.
Lighting, climate, audio and security on a single control layer — commissioned with you in the room, so it does what you expect rather than what an app decided.
Smart homes fail at the joins.
Seven apps, four hubs and a lighting system that cannot talk to the heating is not a smart home. It is seven separate installations that happened in the same house, each commissioned by somebody who left before the next one arrived.
The reason this works here is the same reason the rest of the site exists: we install the lighting, the climate, the audio and the security ourselves. The control layer is the last thing we do rather than the first thing we sell.
Integration is not a product. It is what happens when one team installs all of it.
What we design and install.
- Lighting control and scene setting across the whole house
- Heating and climate zoning on the same control layer
- Audio and AV control, including multi-room
- Security, camera and door entry integration
- Wall-mounted keypads and panels, set out with the joinery
- Structured network provision — the thing everything else depends on
- Remote access, configured without exposing anything to the open internet
- Local control that still works when the internet does not
- Documentation: what is on which circuit, and how to change it
- [Platform dealerships and certifications to be confirmed]
Bracketed items are awaiting confirmation from Systems360. Platform certification affects what can be supported and reprogrammed later, and is not something to claim on a client's behalf.
The same layer, a different house each time.
What changes from one home to the next is who else has to work it — and whether they should have to be told how.
In a home
The brief is that it feels obvious. Scenes that match how the rooms are actually used, a keypad by the door that does the right thing, and nothing that requires the owner to be the technical one.
- Scenes set with you in the room, not guessed from a plan
- Keypads labelled in words rather than icons nobody decodes
- A fallback that works if the network is down
- Documented, so another installer could pick it up
[Second residential application to be supplied]
[A second kind of home Systems360 has put a control layer into — a retrofit, a single room, a garden — what that household wanted, and what made it different from the row above. To be written by Systems360 rather than invented here.]
How the control layer comes together.
Three stages, and it is deliberately the last thing we commission.
Agree what it has to do
We work out what is being controlled, what a scene means in each room, where the keypads go and what the network needs to carry — before any hardware is chosen.
First fix with everything else
Cabling and backboxes installed with the electrical, lighting and AV work, so the control layer is wired in rather than bolted on.
Commission, tune and document
Scenes set with you present and adjusted until they are right, then written down so they can be changed later by somebody else.
Questions we get before we start.
Are we locked into one manufacturer?
To a degree, always — that is the honest answer, and it is why the platform choice matters more than any individual product. We will tell you what a given system commits you to before you buy it.
Can you integrate kit we already have?
Sometimes. Open systems usually, closed ecosystems sometimes not at all. We will tell you what will come across and what would have to be replaced, rather than finding out at commissioning.
What happens if the internet goes down?
The lights still work. We design so local control does not depend on a cloud service, because a house where nothing switches during an outage is not an upgrade.
Will everyone in the house be able to use it?
That is the test we design to. There is always a physical switch or keypad that does the obvious thing, labelled in words, so nobody has to find a phone to turn a light on.
Who changes it in two years?
Whoever you like — that is the point of the documentation. A system nobody but the original installer can modify is a liability, however well it was commissioned.
[Replace with a real review from a homeowner — ideally one that names the smart control work specifically.]
Specifying this for a project?
This page is written for homeowners. There is a separate one for specifiers, contractors and commercial clients, covering the same layer from the other side — schedules, zoning, access levels and the handover pack.