Smart Farm
Nestled away in rural Bedfordshire, for all
intents and purposes Pedley Farm appears
to be the quintessential historic farmhouse.
However, within the 300-year old shell lies
a smart home firmly routed in the 21st
century.
Despite its rustic exterior, Pedley Farm is
very much the modern home. Purchased by
Neil Badcock, owner and director of JetSet
Home Automation, in 2017, the inside of the
farmhouse was completely stripped back
before a new layout optimised for home
automation was designed and built.
Neil’s expertise in the design and
installation of home automation systems
was central to the finished property;
and his experience of living in the house
upon completion has given him a deep
understanding of how to really live in a
connected home – something which he
has in turn applied to his own customer
installations. an end user perspective, you quickly begin
to learn how to tailor each system to the
room in question – rather than having an
‘always on’ approach to functionality, which
can sometimes detract from the end user
benefit.”
“When you’re actually living in a property
and using the systems you install for
customers every day, you really get a much
greater insight as to the functionality and
capacity of a system, above and beyond
what you may take from a brochure,”
begins Neil. “From both an installer and Pedley Farm is equipped with a host of
home automation technology. The property
can be accessed via a keyless Bticino touch
pad, while the Bticino Classe 300X touch
screen video internal unit with integrated Wi-
Fi connectivity provides an intelligent door
entry system. This can be controlled via the
screen or the dedicated Legrand Door Entry
app. Requiring a simple 2 wire installation,
the built-in Wi-Fi connectivity meant no
additional wiring was required. Unlike many
other products on the market, the Classe
300X self-configures to the domestic Wi-Fi
via a simple ‘search and connect’ function.
On a practical level, the Wi-Fi connectivity
avoids any extra expense stemming from
complex wiring and ethernet configuration.
A CLASSE APART
Moving further inside the property, 12 4.3”
Equinox keypads and two Equinox 73 LCD
touch screens from Legrand’s Vantage
home automation range are installed
throughout the house, each powered by a
single RJ45 (PoE) connection. The Active
Matrix Colour LCD keypads are able to
control a host of different functions via
different user interface widgets, ranging
from lighting and climate control, through to
multi-room home audio and video systems.
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