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LABURNUM HOUSE · Crestron HomeTechnology that
disappears.
A home this considered should never feel "programmed." Control should be where the hand expects it, behaviour should follow the people in the room, and every floor should stand on its own.
Tactile at the threshold
Crestron Horizon keypads at every entrance — engraved, back-lit, muscle-memory. The screen is the second move, never the first.
The house knows who & where
Named occupant profiles carry personal presets; BLE beacons resolve which room a person — or a request — is in.
Distributed by floor
A DB in every room on Cresnet, a processor per floor. One device fails, the rest of the house carries on.
Aware of light & air
A terrace photosensor reads the real sky; climate, dehumidification and shades respond to conditions, not clocks.
LABURNUM HOUSETen levels, one system
LABURNUM HOUSEA DB in every room. A processor on every floor.
A fully distributed topology. Each room is self-contained; each floor is independent; the house is tied together over one IP backbone — so a fault stays local and never takes the home dark.
LABURNUM HOUSEA board of
Crestron DIN modules.
Each room's distribution board carries a compact stack of DIN-rail Crestron modules — dimming, switching, climate and power — all on one Cresnet pair to the floor. Keypads home to this DB on Cresnet; touch screens run to the floor network switch on the fibre backbone. This is the ideal design — the final DB is fixed against each room’s equipment schedule.
to floor
per board
of house failure
LABURNUM HOUSEOne room, wired two ways
A typical bedroom, top-down. The Room DB feeds keypads over Cresnet, lighting over TRIAC, curtains & dehumidifier over RS-485, and the TSAT drives the VAV. Switch the control layout and click any keypad to see its engraving.
LABURNUM HOUSEThe master floor, zoned & wired
A representative layout. Each room carries its own DB (●); all home onto the central floor DB & processor (●) over Cresnet. The same pattern repeats on every level.
Room DB ( ● )
One per room — lighting, curtains, dehumidifier & thermostat terminate here.
Central DB & rack ( ● )
Against a wall by the service core — every room DB homes here on Cresnet, with the master processor & network switches.
Master suite zone
Bedroom, walk-in & bath grouped as one scene-able zone.
this floor
processor
LABURNUM HOUSEPlace the screens, count it live
An interactive layout for every habitable floor — pick a floor, drag any Crestron touch screen or keypad to another wall, add or remove devices, and the live quantity schedule (this floor + whole house) updates the moment you do.
LABURNUM HOUSEThe system, counted
A first-pass count for budgeting & head-end sizing. Figures are indicative and will firm up against the final lighting & MEP layouts.
LABURNUM HOUSESix services, one fabric
Every controllable system in the house, normalised into one language — so a scene, a schedule, or a single keypad press can touch any of them together.
Lighting & Scenes
Circuit-level dimming and tunable scenes across every habitable room, façade & landscape.
Curtains & Shades
Motorised drapes & sheer pelmets on every elevation, scene-linked to light and time of day.
Climate — HVAC
Crestron TSAT thermostats driving the VAV air-conditioning per zone, with set-back schedules.
Dehumidification
Room-level RH control in bedrooms, baths & walk-ins — automatic in the humid season.
Pool — Pentair
Terrace pool & jacuzzi via Pentair IntelliPool — pumps, heat, lights & chemistry on schedule.
Daylight
A terrace photosensor reads real sky conditions — shades & lighting harvest daylight automatically.
LABURNUM HOUSEThree surfaces, one behaviour
The hand reaches the keypad first; the screen is there when you want more; the phone follows you out of the house. All three speak to the same processors.
LABURNUM HOUSEFive buttons, tuned to the room
The same Horizon hardware everywhere — three scene buttons over two split rockers. The bottom rocker is always the same “house” pair, learned once and used in every room.
Entrance
Bedroom
Living
LABURNUM HOUSEHome, on a seven-inch screen
A working mock — tap scenes, dim lights, set climate, draw the curtains, call the butler. Switch the persistent-control layout and the active profile on the right.
Persistent controls — layout
Active profile
LABURNUM HOUSEThe house knows who you are
No generic "guest" mode. Each resident — and each staying guest — gets a named profile carrying their favourite channels, apps, scenes & comfort settings, ready the moment they enter a room.
LABURNUM HOUSEAware of who’s where
Under evaluation: low-energy Bluetooth beacons in each room. They let the house follow a person between rooms — and let a butler request resolve to the exact room it came from.
Proximity sensing
A beacon in every room DB. A phone or wearable resolves which room a resident is in — so lights, climate & favourites follow them, and scenes arm only where someone actually is.
Butler calling
From any keypad, screen or phone, order tea, coffee, a meal or snacks. The beacon stamps the request with its origin room and routes it to the on-duty staff station.
LABURNUM HOUSELit by the real sky
One photosensor on the terrace reads true outdoor light. Interior electric lighting and shades trim continuously to hold a target ambience — saving energy and keeping rooms naturally lit.
Outdoor daylight
Measured live by the terrace photosensor.
Electric light output
Dims as daylight rises — inverse to the sky.
Shade position
Modulates glare while preserving the view.
Constant ambience
Rooms hold a steady, natural light level all day.
LABURNUM HOUSEA clear path to handover
Five phases, sequenced against the build. Wiring goes in with first-fix; programming and personalisation happen once rooms are weather-tight.
Design freeze & BOM
- Confirm scope & subsystems
- Lock control schedule
- Crestron bill of materials
- Head-end & rack design
First-fix wiring
- Room DBs + Cresnet
- Keypad & screen back-boxes
- Floor processor positions
- Photosensor & beacon cabling
Programming
- Loads, scenes & schedules
- HVAC, pool & dehumidifier
- Touch-screen UI build
- Keypad engraving sign-off
Commissioning
- Profiles & presets
- Daylight calibration
- Butler & beacon trial
- Scene tuning on site
Handover
- Family walkthrough
- Staff training
- Remote support setup
- As-built documentation
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