CEDIA TOP INTEGRATED HOMES 2021
Last issue we had a viewing of the finalists and winners of CEDIA’s Home Cinema award categories — now it’s the turn of the complete Integrated Homes, representing the finest smart homes delivered in the Asia-Pacific region during the challenging year of 2021. These homes aim to bring lighting, distributed audio and video, temperature control and potentially dozens of other systems under intuitive smart-home control.
CEDIA is the global industry association for residential technology, with its annual Awards programme recognising technical excellence, innovation and individuals succeeding in the home technology industry. The three CEDIA regions each have their own winners, which then go forward to be considered for CEDIA’s global awards.
With great thanks to Paul Skelton and the extended CEDIA team for their help, let’s peer into the finest integrated homes delivered in the Asia Pacific during 2021. Meanwhile we gather the 2022 CEDIA Awards are already open for entries!
BEST INTEGRATED HOME LEVEL I FINALIST WIRED BY MJD
During the initial meeting between the owners of this colourful Australian home and the home automation specialists ‘Wired By MJD’, the owners posed the question, “What do we need that we don’t already have?”
They asked because there were already established systems installed several years prior in this large heritage-listed property, so that once ‘Wired’ had proposed a full-on upgrade with more uniformity between systems both old and new, the challenge was to retrofit the new technology with the existing subsystems to deliver it all under a single control system... and all while the homeowners continued to live and work inside the home.
Wired By MJD also had to address the clients’ hesitancy about adapting to the technology. On their request all the automation required user interaction rather than being fully autonomous, with the exception of the home’s outdoor heaters, which are programmed to turn off automatically after
