SEAL
Smart Home Integration
Smart Home & Home Cinema
Our Client
Oaklands is a substantial private residence in Seal, shaped around family living, entertaining and leisure, with dedicated spaces including a basement cinema, gym, lounge / TV room, kitchen / dining areas and a vaulted golf / games room. The home required technology that could support multiple connected spaces without disrupting the architectural plan.
The client appointed Modus Vivendi to provide a discreet, reliable and intuitive system across comfort, security, media, cinema and wider home control. The priority was to create clarity across a complex residential environment, ensuring the technology supported everyday use while remaining integrated, practical and easy to manage.
The Brief
The brief combined whole-home smart control with a series of distinct entertainment and lifestyle spaces, including a lounge/TV room, entertainment room, gym, play room, external audio areas, and a golf and games room built around an existing TrackMan simulator. The project also required structured pre-wire, centralised racking, lighting and motorised shading, CCTV, entry, and networking to support consistent performance across the property.
Our Solution
We structured the project around a centralised backbone, combining Control4 control, Lutron lighting and shading, managed networking, distributed audio, video distribution, CCTV, entry, and dedicated equipment racking into one coordinated environment. This allowed the home to operate with clearer, more intuitive control across multiple rooms, while protecting long-term reliability through proper design documentation, panel schematics, rack layouts, and full pre-wire planning. Entertainment spaces were resolved according to their intended use, including a more immersive basement entertainment room, a surround system for the lounge/TV room, and a golf and games room designed around simulator use with integrated audio, video, and control. The result was a home with stronger technical foundations, more consistent performance, and a better balance between everyday usability and high-value leisure spaces.
Technical Specification
| Architectural Design | Studio Hudson |
|---|---|
| Control System | Control4 |
| Lighting Control | Lutron |
| Motorised Shading | Lutron |
| Video Entry | 2N |
| Audio Distribution | Control4 4-source, 8-zone audio system |
| Audio System | Triad, Sonnce and Artcoustic |
| CCTV | Dahua |
| Wi-Fi & Networking | Cisco and Ruckus |
| Cinema System | Artcoustic 5.2.2 Atmos surround system with Anthem processing |
| TV Room Audio | Triad 5.1 surround system with Denon 7.2 channel AV receiver |
| Golf Simulator | Existing TrackMan simulator with laser projector allowance |
| Display | Sony 85″ 4K HDR TV |