New Construction / Wiring – Beyond Security:
Are you planning on building a new home or renovating?
Have you thought about what kind of home entertainment, security or video camera system will integrate with your lifestyle. What about your computers? how will they network with each other in your new home? Are you going to use Shaw, Bell or Telus as your content provider for telephone, internet and TV? Do you want a dedicated home theater or media room? How about Surround Sound? iPods, iPads, Whole house audio, Patio or Outdoor Speakers? What about energy conservation and home control?
Your new home is the most expensive investment in your life, all these questions are important and should be considered when building a new home or renovating.
While some builders offer rough in wiring for security systems, home theater and even whole house audio and video wiring, these packages are usually the bare minimum and often become very limiting as your technology needs and requirements change and evolve. We are living in a digital world and technology is integrating into every faucet of our lives. What may be OK or not important for today could become disappointing and frustrating in the future as technology continues to advance and evolve. With a Structured Wiring System designed and installed by ION Security you can Avoid the “I wish I thought of that” or “Why didn’t we do that when we built our house blues”.
Over the years we have developed great working relationships with many builders, designers, developers and architects to ensure that your home is properly wired to meet your lifestyle needs today and flexible enough to exceed your requirements well into the future.
With more than 20 years experience in structured wiring, design and installation, each ION whole house wiring system is designed with a focus on Optimal Performance, Exceptional Value and most of all Ease of Use. At ION Security we believe technology should serve you and enhance your life rather than you becoming a slave to it and allowing technology to overwhelm and frustrate you as you learn to coexist with a poorly designed and engineered Audio/Video Security system.
Ready to Get Wired?
Only a few short years ago homes were being wired with so called “Smart Wiring”. This usually meant the home builder or electrician would run two (2) coaxial cables and two (2) Cat 5 cables to a couple of designated locations in the home. Today with HDTV, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Cable, Telus Optic TV, HDMI, Digital Security Cameras, Streaming Video, Cat6 and Fiber Optic cable, suddenly a couple of coax and cat 5 cables doesn’t seem TOO Smart!
A properly designed “Structured Wiring” system incorporates all the necessary wiring infrastructure to support digital communications, voice, data, audio, video, cameras and security in your new home, not only today but well into the future.
What will prewiring do for me?
As technologies continue to develop the converge and become more connected, having a home wired to support these emerging technologies can be mean the difference between future-readiness and obsolescence.
Many of the electronics and systems already in your home would benefit from being integrated with each other. A local area wired and wireless network will allow PC’s, Mac’s Laptops, iPods, iPhones and iPads to become interconnected and share files and connected printers within the home similar to the set-up in an office environment.
Television wiring and distribution though out the home will let you share and view HDTV Set Top Boxes, Steaming Media devices, Media Servers, Apple TV, Netflix, DVD Players, VCR’s and Security Cameras to be displayed on various TV’s and Monitors in the house
Whole house audio integration allows iPods, iPads, Central Media Servers, PC’s & Macs to be accessed on all stereo devices in the home or independently on specific stereo systems in each room or zone.
Heating/Air Conditioning, Lighting and Door Locks become integrated with the security systems and allow the home owner to remote monitor and manage temperature, lighting and door locks from inside the home or via the internet or smart phone app.
The benefits are clear!
Future Proofing: The benefits of prewiring is not just what will it do for me today but what will it ALLOW me to do in the future!
Once your home is prewired there is no need to rewire when you add new systems, services, electronics, technology and components. With the right infrastructure in place adding and changing devices and services is easy and cost effective.
With Prewiring your home will be ready for additional video cameras, computers, , televisions, cable boxes, alarm components and other devices which have yet to be developed. Components can be added in steps as the budget allows or as needs arise or technology changes. Prewiring allows you flexibility and avoids an ALL or Nothing decisions.
When prewiring is designed by ION Security “YOU” are involved in the decision-making process of where to run the wires and what location on the wall to mount the service wall plate.
Prewiring is a “SMART EXPENSE” because it locks in the cost of cable, wiring and labour at today’s costs and protects you the home owner from rising costs of copper metals and labour rates. Prewiring at the framing stage is quicker and has lower labor cost than the expense of disturbing the drywall and vapor barrier later to install required wiring into the walls of the home not to mention the additional expense of refinishing the drywall and painting.
Prewiring is a great investment and adds to the resale value of the home. As technology continues to emerge into every facet of our life, homes with structured wiring often sell quicker and for more money in the resale market than similar homes without such amenities. Most home owners now and in the future put a high value on anything that enhances the digital lifestyle.
ION Security believes that integrating security systems with video and sound in one complete package is a great benefit and value to the home owner. We have been designing and installing commercial and residential audio/video systems since 1986.
We can design, build and install a whole house system that integrates alarm, security cameras, telephone, computer networks, audio, video and home entertainment equipment into one intuitive, reliable, high performing and most of all easy to use system.