Imagine no longer having to walk all over the house to adjust the drapes, the lights, the temperature, and the audio-video systems. How convenient would it be to be able to control all of that with the simple touch of a button? Well, now you don’t have to imagine it anymore. La Strada’s Home System Design is a full-service company specializing in home technology design and complete project management services. The Company is headed by a group of Information Technology professionals with combined experience of over 50 years in technology, software development and design services. With our main offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, we have become one of the main players in the fast growing home technology industry. We do so much more than is pictured here in this catalog. For more information, please give us a call or send us an Email. We’d love to hear from you.
A ‘Typical Day’ with Home Automation 7:oo am – Wake up The sun is shining but your room is totally dark since your automated blackouts are down. The system activates your morning music on low volume, which increases every two minutes. The lights slowly dim for 15 minutes, allowing you to wake gently to music, just the way you like it. After 15 minutes, your blackout shades are up. Good Morning. It’s a beautiful day. 7:30 am – Breakfast You walk into the kitchen. At the press of a button, you set up the lighting just the way you like it. Your favorite news channel comes on or your favorite music starts playing. The shades open to the beautiful view and the air conditioning sets the temperature to a comfortable 75 degrees. Your coffee is ready and you can smell the fresh baked bread in the oven. The system automatically started making them at 7:00 am. Bon Appetite. Everything tastes good.
8:00 am – Off to work You are ready for a new day at the office. A press on the touch panel gives you the weather information. It might rain it says, so you reach for the umbrella– just in case. Another look at the touch panel and you check the alarm. It shows you a floor plan of the house and look - a kitchen window is open. Good thing you caught this one. Let’s try it again. One press of a button and all the lights in the house turn off. The air conditioning temperature goes to 80 degrees. All of the TVs and components shut down, the shades close automatically, and the alarm sets itself. Goodbye. It’s time for work.
12:00 pm – At work You are at your office. The automation system sends you an email that the air conditioning in your house stopped working. Not to worry. You call the service company. When they arrive at your house, you log into your house system from your office computer, disarm the alarm and let them in. You can see exactly what they are doing through the cameras. Problem fixed. They leave. You lock up the house and reset the alarm. Would you believe it? And you did all that without leaving your office! 4:30 pm – On the way home You are leaving the office. From your iPhone you press a button to notify your home that you are on your way. The house system gets ready for you. It sets the air conditioning temperature to 75 degrees. The coffee is already brewing and the water heater starts warming up the water. Great! You feel like you’re at home already. 5:00 pm – Arriving home You arrive at home. You swipe your finger on the touch panel and the system recognizes you. The alarm shuts off and the lights come on – just the way you like it. The shades roll up and your favorite music comes on. The coffee is ready. Welcome home. Your bath awaits. 5:30 pm – The family arrives Your wife and children arrive home. You are in the bathroom but a quick look at the touch panel and you can see them on the security cameras, putting a smile on your face. You’re a dad! You can’t wait to hug them. 7:30 pm – After dinner After a wonderful dinner, it’s time for some entertainment! You decide to go to the movies with the family. But for you, the theater is only a few feet away. The popcorn is ready and judging by the smiles on the kids’ faces, so are they. Just entering your home theater with its real theater look and feel, puts you in the mood for a good movie. Everybody sits in their favorite cinema-style chair and you pick a movie from hundreds of movies in your collection- right from your screen. Lights dim. Sound comes up. You snuggle with your family and you feel like you’re at the movies! 10:30 pm – Going to sleep The kids are asleep. You walk into your bedroom and check on them through the security cameras. A push of a button and you see that all the perimeter of the house is secure. You press on the ‘Goodnight’ button, which closes all the blackouts and shades. The TV’s and sound systems shut down and the air conditioning goes to your comfortable preset sleeping temperature. Your system knows which lights you want to shut off and which ones you leave on at night. You get into bed with your wife and push the ‘Romance’ button... Wow. What an end to a perfect day!
Lighting Systems Did you know that the lights in your home can do much more than just turn on and off? When controlled by the right set of smart devices, they can brighten and dim automatically, accentuate the architecture of your home, or create the right mood and ambience for any occasion - all with remarkably little effort on your part. Our lighting systems can also execute preprogrammed scenes to simulate established lifestyle patterns during your absence. Dimmers can adjust internal lighting according to natural light levels in the home or incrementally over a pre-determined time period.
Window Treatments Whether you’re looking for window treatment solutions for a single room, multiple rooms or your entire home, La Strada’s Home System Design gives you the freedom to personalize your light in any space. Our automated shading systems let you control the window treatments in your home with an easy touch of a button. Our window treatment solutions integrate with your lighting system to offer you limitless ways to control your curtains and blinds. Control everything from a touch panel, keypad, handheld remote control, or even your computer when you are away from home.
Roller Shade
Drapery
Roman Shade
Multi-Room AV Our audio/video distribution unit allows you to integrate your MP3 collection, digital media library and broadcast radio and TV channels into a single system. With multi-room A/V, you do not need to have an audio component in every room. Instead, all programming is streamed from a central location, and you can enjoy the programming you choose anywhere in the house from speakers and monitors mounted in walls or ceilings. You can adjust the source, volume or turn programming on or off using a keypad, touch screen or remote control.
Home Theatres The critics all agree. The best show in town is at your house! There’s no place like home to enjoy a good movie in the company of friends and family. Get some popcorn, sit back and relax, because with a touch of a single button you can dim the lights, close the shades, adjust room temperature, turn on the screen, set the surround sound, and choose from hundreds of movies right from your screen! La Strada’s Home System Design specializes in bringing the theater atmosphere into your home. Our imaginative options in quality video and audio will get you a standing ovation.
An experience so real you can smell the popcorn...
Automation & Control Home automation is really all about effortless technology designed to simplify your life. A single, simple-to-use system that will allow you and your family to easily manage all of the sub-systems in your home, including lighting, window treatments, temperature, communication, security, web-based cameras, music, entertainment, lawn sprinklers, and much more. A smartly automated home isn’t just a home filled with fancy electronics and complex gadgets. It’s an intelligently designed home that suits your lifestyle, with useful technologies that make your home more enjoyable, more convenient and safer. La Strada not only integrates all of the different electronic equipment and systems throughout the home, but we also make it practical and easy to use.
Ambiance - Lights, Shades and temperature
Security - Alarm, Security Cameras and Intercom.
Entertainment - Music, TV and Home Theatre
Concealed Electronics La Strada’s Home System Design offers you elegant ways to hide, reveal, and automate TV screens and speakers. It gives you great flexibility to design your room without any equipment restraints, keeping your audio/video in harmony with the room’s architecture. We carry the quietest, smoothest and safest operating TV lifts on the market today, including vertical lift, ceiling drop-down, swivel arm, under bed, small lifts for kitchens and offices, and custom cabinetry.
TV Behind Artwork This is an ideal solution for concealing a large flat panel TV behind museum quality art prints in a tastefully decorated room. When your TV is not in use, your art collection is exhibited normally in the room; and when you turn the TV on, the artwork retracts to reveal the TV screen.
Mirror TV This is a sophisticated monitor system which is elegantly mounted behind a conventional mirror surface to dramatically display anything from TV and satellite channels to PC presentations and video games. The stylish and perfectly integrated look of glass and LCD is sure to mesmerize all your senses.
Lift Mechanisms
Speaker lift mechanism The Speakers Lift mechanism allows for lowering or raising speakers from concealed positions anywhere in the house, from above-ceiling, belowfloor, inside-wall, even tucked inside existing cabinetry. It gives you great flexibility to design your room freely, without having to worry about coordinating audio/video equipment with room architecture.
TV from the Ceiling Ceiling mounts provide a brilliant solution for the person who likes the minimalist approach to a room design, wants to safeguard electronic investments, or just wants to add a contemporary flair to the room. A TV ceiling lift device will not only free up prized floor and wall space, but will also provide you with the flexibility to make your viewing and listening environment extra-appealing.
TV lift / lift & swivel Our wide selection of TV lift and swivel solutions are the quietest available on the market today. They can be mounted from the ceiling or floor, with no pinch points for wires or cables, no unsightly cables or pulleys, and no more jitters like old-fashioned
TV from under the bed
rack and pinion systems. Swivel option available
The perfect product for someone who doesn’t
to 360 degrees. Our lifts are programmable with
want a TV looming over their bedroom. At the
remote control, and are available as a complete
touch of a button, the sneaky automated lift slides
unit or built into custom cabinetry.
a flat screen TV from its secret, hidden space under the bed and then carefully lifts and automatically positions it into a vertical position at the foot of a bed. With one click of a button you can swivel, view and tuck your TV away comfortably without getting out of bed. This is the perfect balance between convenience, style and technology.
Communication & Networking Monitor the front door or gate; watch the kids by the swimming pool; or check on the baby napping in the nursery. You can control your security cameras remotely and watch what’s going on around the house, right from your touch panel! While listening to your favorite music or watching a movie in your home theater, you’ll know the instant someone rings the doorbell or enters the driveway. The audio gently mutes and you can see who’s there on the touch panel or television. You’re able to speak with your visitor and grant access to your home at the press of a button. With a home telephone network, you can manage multiple phone lines easily, place calls on hold and transfer calls between rooms. No more running all over the house to answer the telephone or doorbell!
Security Systems La Strada’s Home System Design offers all types of security systems for your home. From basic stand-alone systems to very sophisticated systems with multiple cameras, which can be incorporated into your complete home automation system. These systems not only protect your home and family from fire or intruders, but also provide you with real-time status of your home’s perimeter, including open windows, unlocked garage doors, and doors which you forgot to close. There is no better comfort than feeling secure and safe in your own home. Now you can relax with highly reliable 24/7 system monitoring in your house.
The difference between good and bad foundation is not the cost, it’s knowledge! Pre-wiring Structured wiring is defined as the foundation or connectivity that allows the technology in your home or business to flow. Without casting an eye towards future needs, it’s possible that costly modifications might need to be made after your project is well underway. Without exception, experience shows that homeowners who fail to plan ahead for the addition of home automation and control often express interest in doing so after the project has been completed. We work hand-in-hand with builders and architects from the start of the planning process, to custom design home technology systems that work with the home’s structural design to deliver the ultimate experience.
Professional Services AV Calibration La Strada’s Home System Design defines what a home technology solution should achieve not only in construction and aesthetics, but most importantly in performance.
During the final quality control stage, we make sure everything is perfect. Professional calibration is essentially ‘custom tuning’ your systems to perform at their best in your home.
We supply all aspects of total home technology without the use of third-party subcontractors. We pioneered the “Complete Home System” concept. All of our systems are custom designed and built by our own team of skilled designers and engineers who supervise everything from start to finish. And, since we do everything “in-house”, we can guarantee excellent design and quality control. We take great pride in our reputation as being the best in the industry.
Our technicians use special equipment to carefully measure and adjust your picture and sound, taking into consideration connected components, room lighting, and other factors that affect performance.
Professional Installation Our complete turnkey package includes the installation of all of our systems, and when it comes to installation, we’ve built an international reputation for fine work and customer satisfaction. With hundreds of installations under our belt, we have gained the experience needed to face any deployment or creative challenge. Whether your project involves a single system in a single location, or many systems in many locations, we have both the knowledge and the experience in place to provide you with nothing less than excellent service.
Programming Our programmers are our own employees and not outside contractors. They have the knowledge and experience in programming systems for both residential and commercial applications, single or multi-room systems. Our systems are based on open technologies and standards to guarantee simple and costeffective integration with other systems and technologies, and to give the user sleek graphics to suit their environment as well as optimum functionality.
Design & Engineering Every project begins with a concept or an idea. After initial conversations to determine needs and expectations, we will carefully study the home’s floor plan. We then create detailed plans and fully-digital drawings for a custom design that is a perfect fit for each client. Once a design is approved, our expert engineers will build a custom system to exact specifications. All home system technologies, including designing, engineering and programming are created by our in-house team of experts.
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