Our Guildford test house

What does a genuinely smart home do?

A real family house where heating, lighting, energy, appliances, blinds, security and routines have gradually learned to work together.

A lived-in smart home interior
Low-level night lighting
Comfort

Lights that know it's 3am

The same movement can produce normal lighting during the day and a very low level at night.

Smart heating control
Heating

Heat the rooms that actually need it

Individual rooms can call for heat independently, so the central system responds to real demand.

Indoor clothes drying
Efficiency

Dry the clothes, not the room

Power use and humidity can determine whether clothes are still drying and stop equipment when the job is done.

Bedroom morning routine
Routine

A gentler start to the morning

A household schedule can coordinate blinds, lights and music into one wake-up routine.

Home energy dashboard
Awareness

Notice unusual behaviour

Existing energy data can reveal when an appliance behaves abnormally and trigger a useful warning.

Automated garage door
Existing equipment

Make the house you already own smart

Garage doors, alarms and other existing equipment can often be monitored and controlled without wholesale replacement.

AI & energy analysis

Find the things you weren't looking for.

A smart home can generate thousands of readings every day. In the test house, live power monitoring breaks consumption down by area and device and leaves an unaccounted figure for everything we cannot directly measure.

That remaining signal has patterns of its own. AI can help interpret excursions, recognise recurring behaviour and turn raw sensor history into observations that are useful to a person. The same approach can describe camera events in plain English and combine information from several systems when something unusual happens.

Control remains predictable: AI helps interpret what the house is seeing, while conventional automation carries out the reliable actions.

Live power-flow monitoring from the Guildford test house showing solar, battery, grid, household loads and unaccounted consumption
Live power flow from our Guildford test house. Monitoring individual loads leaves an “unaccounted” figure that can be analysed for patterns, unexpected consumption and devices that aren't directly instrumented.
And occasionally, because we can
The office light follows live Formula 1 track status.

Green track. Yellow flag. Safety car. Virtual safety car. Red flag. Not every automation needs a business case.

Office lighting during a Formula 1 race
One system, many manufacturers

Make sense of what you've already bought.

Heating, solar, battery storage, appliances, lighting, blinds, security, media, phones and other systems can work together without expecting the household to manage each one separately.

Smart-home integration controls