Our Services
Add convenience, peace of mind and security to your life by automating your home. We offer smart lighting, motorized blinds, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras and Wi-Fi enhancements.
Key Benefits
- Increased Security: By automating your lighting, you can give the appearance of being home, while away from home. This can ward of potential thieves.
- Energy efficiency: With smart lighting you can easily see which lights are on at your home thus allowing you to turn them off and save on your energy bill.
- Convenience: Turn off all your lights at once when it's time for bed. Or schedule your lights to come on when the sun sets and it gets dark.
- Color Control: Want to make your lights red for christmas, or a fun color for a party? Easily accomplishable with a simple tap of your app on your mobile phone.
- Ambiance Control: Smart lighting can allow you to dim or brighten your lights and also warm and cool them. Helping you set the perfect ambiance for
- Easy App control: Andersen Smart Homes sets you up with an easy to use app that can control both your blinds and lighting. This makes for less clutter on your phone and simple home control.
- Alexa or Google Home Compatible: All devices installed by Andersen Smart Homes are compatible so you can control your home with your favourite voice assistant!
- Hardwired Communications: For homes over 8000 square feet, wireless communication is difficult. Lutron Homeworks allows hardwired communications for lighting controls that greatly improves accuracy.
Things to Note
- Smart lighting can be accomplished either with smart light bulbs or smart switches. Often to create an ideal smart home a combination of both is used.
- We recommend Lutron Lighting controls for smart lighting. Lutron Caseta fpr homes under 4k sqft, Lutron Radio RA for existing executive homes and Lutron Homeworks for new build executive homes.
Key Benefits
- Energy savings: Smart thermostats help optimize energy usage. They can use advanced algorithms to learn your heating habits or detect if you are at home. Thus keeping your home warm when you need it most and only when you need it most.
- Mobile control: With smart thermostats, you can remotely access and control your HVAC system using your smartphone, tablet, or computer. This feature allows you to adjust the temperature and heat up your home or cabin when you are on your way there. That way your space will be nice and cozy when you arrive.
- Energy usage insights and reports: Many smart thermostats provide energy usage insights and reports, allowing you to monitor and analyze your heating and cooling patterns. These insights can help you identify energy-saving opportunities, understand the impact of temperature adjustments, and make informed decisions to optimize energy efficiency.
- Alexa or Google Home Compatible: All devices installed by Andersen Smart Homes are compatible so you can control your home with your favourite voice assistant!
Things to Note
- Depending on the HVAC system in your home you may need a different type of smart thermostat. Low voltage smart thermostats generally support hot water radiation or heat pumps while high voltage thermostats support electric baseboard heaters.
Key Benefits
- Increased Security: By automating your blinds, you can give the appearance of being home, while away from home. This can ward of potential thieves.
- Energy efficiency: With motorized blinds you can help keep your home cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Thus reducing your heating or AC costs.
- Convenience: Shut all your blinds at once when it's time for bed. Or schedule your shades to open up when your alarm goes off in the morning. Using the same app as your lighting!
- Light and Ambiance Control: Motorized shades give you precise control over the amount of light entering your space. Pick your frabrics to allow different levels of light control to dim bright sunlight.
- Blackout Shades: For those that sleep in the day time, install automatic blackout shades and set them to be lowered when you return to work to imp[rove your sleep.
- Mobility Assistance: For those with limited mobility, voice assistant or mobile phone controlled shades can allow you to adjust the blinds from the comfort of your bed or couch.
- 4 Control Layers: Remote, mobile phone, time, and voice with Alexa/Google are the four ways you can control your motorized blinds.
Things to Note
- Lutron blinds are the industry leader for their quiet motors, dozens of styles and hundreds of fabrics. Their wireless also has range up to 15sqft and batteries last up to 1.5 years.
- If you are building a new home, contact us early and we will hardwire your blinds so oyu don't have to worry about batteries!
Key Benefits
- Increased Security: One of the primary benefits of video doorbells is improved home security. Built-in cameras allow you to see and monitor your doorstep in real-time. This feature helps deter potential burglars and allows you to see who a visitor is before opening the door.
- Two-way communication: Automatic alerts and a built in microphone allow you to talk directly to people on your doorstep. You can tell your delivery driver where to leave a package or let your childs friend know you're gone for the afternoon.
- Video recording and playback: Video doorbells come with video recording capabilities, allowing you to capture and store video footage of events at your doorstep. This can be valuable in case you've lost an item such as your purse. Just replay the video of you leaving and see if you had the purse when you left.
- Package theft avoidance: With the rise of online shopping, package theft has become a concern for many homeowners. Video doorbells can help manage package deliveries by providing real-time notifications when a delivery arrives and ensuring you get a good picture of any theif.
Things to Note
- It is important to ensure that the doorbell you choose works with your existing chime.
- Most smart doorbells require the purchase of a subscription plan for access to certain features and to store video.
Key Benefits
- Increased Security: The primary benefit of security cameras is monitoring your home for any suspicious activity. With proper camera installation, you will receive an alert on your phone anytime someone steps foot on your property. day or night.
- Video Recording and Playback: In the case where a theif is able to rob your house, security cameras will record the video evidence leaving you a good crisp image to send to police or your local facebook group to help identify the criminal.
- Car Protection: A security camera installed facing your driveway will deter theifs from breaking into your cars and also protect from your vehicles being stolen in the night.
- Ring Security Cameras: Andersen Smart Homes recommends Ring security cameras. These cameras can form a "ring" of protection around your house. Ring offers a variety of camera solutions including POE and floodlight cameras.
Things to Note
- It is important to ensure that the doorbell you choose works with your existing chime.
- Most smart doorbells require the purchase of a subscription plan for access to certain features and to store video.
Key Benefits
- Replace one size fits all routers: While Canada has some of the best internet providers world wide. They only offer cheap one size fits all routers. These routers are designed to only talk to one device at a time and generally support less than ten devices at optimal speeds. Wi-Fi access points allow multiple devices to communicate wirelessly at the same time in your home thus cutting back on wireless congestion.
- Improve Coverage: Many homeowners struggle with getting Wi-Fi coverage in bedrooms, basements, garages and more. Wi-Fi access points placed in strategic locations including ceiling mounted when possible allow for greater coverage throughout your home.
- Cut down on Buffering: Improving network coverage and cutting down wireless congestion in your home can cut out buffering movies, video game delays and elminiate Wi-Fi deadzones.
- Cat 6 Wiring: Andersen Smart Homes specializes in low voltage cat 6 wiring to improve residential networks. This includes but is not limited to retrofit wiring, reconfiguring telephone lines and new home construction wiring
Things to Note
- Hardwired internet devices always perform better than wireless counterparts.
- In new construction, builders should always ensure cat6 is ran to TVs, bedrooms, garages and sheds.
- Wi-Fi access points can easily be installed in most existing homes with limited drywall damage.