Automation Showing Up In More Mid-Priced Homes in South Florida
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In a recent article Robyn A. Friedman of the Sun-Sentinel discussed an increase in moderately priced homes with automation. Home automation, also known as making a "smart home" is the process of firstly providing remote on/off facilities for appropriate devices (lamps, coffee makers, computers, computers, Air Conditioning, Televisions, etc.)
Technology that used to be available only to luxury condominium owners in South Florida is now increasinglly showing up in midpriced condos and single-family homes here.
Home automation has comea long way from the X-10 modules (sold in electronics stores) previously used. Today's sophisticated condo buyers now expect a high level of home automation and building integration when they purchase their luxury homes. Some of these systems cost more than $1 million.
According to George Fallica, co-owner of Climax USA LLC, a North Miami Beach-based provider of home automation and building integration technology, "Developers used to try to differentiate themselves by using Snaidero kitchens or granite countertops, but it has all been done before. Now they try to leapfrog each other with building integration."
Building integration is technology that allows condo owners to communicate with the amenities of a building--concierge, pool or security services, for example--by using an interactive touch screen. Home automation, on the other hand, allos condo owners to control virtually all the systems in their individual condos, from lighting to temperature to raising and lowering blinds. These high-tech systems are apt to raise home and condo sales and aid developers in achieving higher sales prices per square foot.
Skyline Equity Realty, the developer of Skyline at Mary Brickell Village in Miami, even markets its condos as "Apartments of the Future." Each of the 369 condos come equipped with a home automation panel that controls lighting, security, the sound system, satellite or cable television and high-speed Internet service. With a few presses on a touch screen, residents can even make a dinner reservation or order groceries from a nearby supermarket--all without leaving their home.
MDM Development Group's Met 3 in Miami will offer residents a HomeLink wireless security panel to control their condos features, including lighting, thermostat and blinds via the Internet so that its residents can monitor their homes even while traveling.
The Aventura-based Trump Group is spending $30,000 per condo at Luxuria, its 24-unit ultra luxury condominium project on the beach in Boca Raton, to make each one "smart." Each residence will come with a Crestron control device that has the capability of communicating with up to 60,000 devices simultaneously. The basic building integration system, made by Vertical Integration Group, will include an automation panel that allows it to browse the Web. That device also allows owners to open blinds, turn on lights, start the fireplace, control the air conditioning, turn on the hot tub or ask the valet to bring up their car.
Owners at Luxuria can choose home automation upgrade packages from $85,000 to $1 million. What does a $1 million home automation system do? Climax's Fallica said he recently installed one at Trump Palace in Sunny Isles Beach. It includes: mutlizone audio and video systems with hard disk servers that store more than 1,000 movies and 10,000 CDs; multiple plasma televisions throughout the unit; multiple tocuh panels; $160,000 worth of speakers; a $50,000 projection screen; and a complete home theater with stage, seats, and popcorn machine. Ain't life grand?
In a recent article Robyn A. Friedman of the Sun-Sentinel discussed an increase in moderately priced homes with automation. Home automation, also known as making a "smart home" is the process of firstly providing remote on/off facilities for appropriate devices (lamps, coffee makers, computers, computers, Air Conditioning, Televisions, etc.)
Technology that used to be available only to luxury condominium owners in South Florida is now increasinglly showing up in midpriced condos and single-family homes here.
Home automation has comea long way from the X-10 modules (sold in electronics stores) previously used. Today's sophisticated condo buyers now expect a high level of home automation and building integration when they purchase their luxury homes. Some of these systems cost more than $1 million.
According to George Fallica, co-owner of Climax USA LLC, a North Miami Beach-based provider of home automation and building integration technology, "Developers used to try to differentiate themselves by using Snaidero kitchens or granite countertops, but it has all been done before. Now they try to leapfrog each other with building integration."
Building integration is technology that allows condo owners to communicate with the amenities of a building--concierge, pool or security services, for example--by using an interactive touch screen. Home automation, on the other hand, allos condo owners to control virtually all the systems in their individual condos, from lighting to temperature to raising and lowering blinds. These high-tech systems are apt to raise home and condo sales and aid developers in achieving higher sales prices per square foot.
Skyline Equity Realty, the developer of Skyline at Mary Brickell Village in Miami, even markets its condos as "Apartments of the Future." Each of the 369 condos come equipped with a home automation panel that controls lighting, security, the sound system, satellite or cable television and high-speed Internet service. With a few presses on a touch screen, residents can even make a dinner reservation or order groceries from a nearby supermarket--all without leaving their home.
MDM Development Group's Met 3 in Miami will offer residents a HomeLink wireless security panel to control their condos features, including lighting, thermostat and blinds via the Internet so that its residents can monitor their homes even while traveling.
The Aventura-based Trump Group is spending $30,000 per condo at Luxuria, its 24-unit ultra luxury condominium project on the beach in Boca Raton, to make each one "smart." Each residence will come with a Crestron control device that has the capability of communicating with up to 60,000 devices simultaneously. The basic building integration system, made by Vertical Integration Group, will include an automation panel that allows it to browse the Web. That device also allows owners to open blinds, turn on lights, start the fireplace, control the air conditioning, turn on the hot tub or ask the valet to bring up their car.
Owners at Luxuria can choose home automation upgrade packages from $85,000 to $1 million. What does a $1 million home automation system do? Climax's Fallica said he recently installed one at Trump Palace in Sunny Isles Beach. It includes: mutlizone audio and video systems with hard disk servers that store more than 1,000 movies and 10,000 CDs; multiple plasma televisions throughout the unit; multiple tocuh panels; $160,000 worth of speakers; a $50,000 projection screen; and a complete home theater with stage, seats, and popcorn machine. Ain't life grand?
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