Article from 'AV' Magazine April 2011
Open the racks of any modern building and there’s no doubt about the outcome of the battle of the protocols between the AV, entertainment, telecommunications and data processing industries. From way out, on thefar-right of the field, came the US Defence Advance Research Projects Agency armed with TCP/IP, a network protocol suite so robust, reliable and flexible, that it has swept all before it. Now pretty much everything, even in the residential technology sector, can be delivered over an IP stream – except of course, the water. When a couple in Melbourne’s inner South-East brought in architect Ian Perkins to design a sweeping renovation and major extensions to their Edwardian home, he invited Connected Living’s Sasha Apel to talk to his clients about the possibilities for audiovisual facilities in what was effectively a new construction within the shell of the house.“From the outset it was clear the clients were interested to know about every possibility that could make their home more flexible, more adaptable and easier to live in,” explains Apel. “They were accustomed to using information and communications technology in their workplace, making them open to ideas and technologies that have not yet been widely adopted in residential projects”. “We were initially discussing how the various audio and video sources could be shared around the house, but the scope of the work just kept expanding until it became clear that what we were doing was specifying a residence with an IP backbone – and then things really got exciting.”
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"Challenging" was how home automation installers Connected Living described the integration of traditional wiring with a HPM iControl system in a builder's showcase home near Plenty, north-east of Melbourne.
