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esigning a home automation
system that homeowners will love
usually comes down to one thing
– usability. If the system is easy
to use, delivers all the functions the owners
desire and makes their daily home life easier,
it’s a dream come true.
For Tom Taylor, a veteran high-end
residential architect, this level of sophisticated
yet simple home automation was a musthave for his new home and rental property
at the Amangani Resort in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming. To achieve this, he hired
Connecticut—based C&T Systems to install
an ELAN® g! Entertainment and Control
System that makes it easy to control the
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home’s lighting, heating, audio/video, pool,
spa, security and surveillance systems.
All the lighting controls throughout the
house are intuitive, from LED light strips
and recessed lights that have pre-set ‘high’
According to Andrew Spalla, C&T’s
and ‘low’ dimming levels to motorized
director of engineering, every step in the
window shades that can be raised or
project was carefully considered and
lowered through the ELAN g! mobile app
the design was fully orchestrated before
installation began, ensuring a smooth process or an ELAN HR2 remote. Each room
has a lighting keypad that includes buttons
and a perfect result. “We agreed that for
for ‘high,’ ‘low’ and ‘off’, plus up and down
the home to be comfortable for the Taylors
arrows for dimming that allow guests to set
while also being simple and luxurious for
guests, it needed to provide controls that are their perfect lighting level. The system is
intelligently designed to fit each space in the
intuitive and can be operated by anybody
home, so that the ‘high’ level is brighter in
with zero training,” he said. “And it was
the kitchen than the ‘high’ level in the master
important to minimize the visual impact of
the control system keypads while keeping the bedroom, and that certain light fixtures
operation simple for lighting, music and A
V.” automatically adjust brightness at night and
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