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A 2 BHK with nineteen devices in it. Turn it around, click anything to find out what it does, and switch the scene to see what the house does by itself at each time of day.

Scene

A 2 BHK of about 950 sq ft, with nineteen devices in it. This is the list the interactive version is built from — every item below is a real decision we would talk through at a survey.

Balcony

Cameras

Outdoor camera

One camera covering the approach does most of the work. We would rather put one good camera where it matters than six cheap ones around a flat.

  • Local recording first, cloud as the backup — not the other way round
  • Indoor cameras in living spaces are a household conversation, not a technical one

Living room

Lighting

Living room lighting

One switch module in the wall box controls the whole circuit, however many downlights are on it. The module sits behind the plate you already have, so the switch on the wall still works exactly as it does now.

  • One module per circuit is usually cheaper than one smart bulb per fitting
  • Dimming depends on the driver in your lights — worth testing one before buying for the house
Lighting

The wall switch, still working

This is the part people do not expect. The module hides inside the box; the plate on the wall is unchanged. Guests, parents and anyone who has never opened the app carry on pressing the same switch.

  • The app always knows the real state, even when someone used the wall switch
  • Needs a neutral wire in the box — a ten-minute check before you buy anything
Curtains

Living room curtains

A motor on the track, driven by a schedule or a scene. The useful setting is not opening them from your phone — it is having them close by themselves at sunset without anyone thinking about it.

  • Needs a power point near the track, which an occupied flat often does not have
  • Pull the fabric by hand and a good motor takes over and finishes the run
Climate

Air conditioning

A small infrared bridge learns your existing remote. No new AC, no wiring. It gives the unit you already own a schedule, and lets a rule turn it off when a door is left open.

  • Raising the setpoint two degrees at 3am saves a lot and nobody notices
  • Works with almost any unit that has an infrared remote
Audio & TV

TV and speakers

Pulled into the same scenes as everything else, so "movie" dims the lights, closes the curtains and switches the input in one tap instead of three remotes.

  • This is a convenience layer — we would not start a project here
  • Speakers need Wi-Fi bandwidth, so they stay off the low-power mesh

Kitchen

Lighting

Kitchen lighting

Bright and cool while someone is cooking, and part of the goodnight scene that sweeps the whole flat so nobody has to walk around checking.

  • Under-cabinet strips are the one place a separate circuit is worth it
  • Steam and grease are hard on touch panels — ordinary plates last better here
Sensors

Water leak sensor

A puck on the floor behind the sink or the washing machine. It costs very little, it does nothing for years, and the once it goes off it pays for the entire installation several times over.

  • Battery lasts a year or two on the low-power mesh
  • Can shut a motorised valve as well as send the alert, if one is fitted
Sensors

Gas and smoke detection

Mounted at the right height for the gas you actually have — LPG sinks, so the sensor goes low; piped gas rises, so it goes high. Getting that wrong is the most common installation error we see.

  • Alerts the phone, and can cut the exhaust fan circuit in or out
  • Test it on the schedule printed on the unit, not when you remember

Entrance

Doors

Main door lock

The real value is not unlocking from the office. It is that the cook has a code that works between six and eight, and when the cook changes you delete a code rather than change a lock.

  • Keep a physical key override — batteries do run out
  • Measure door thickness, lock type, backset and handing before ordering
Cameras

Video doorbell

The device that earns its place fastest in an Indian flat, for an unglamorous reason: deliveries. See and speak to whoever is there, from anywhere, and tell them where to leave the parcel.

  • Wired to the existing bell transformer where there is one, battery where there is not
  • Check it has local recording as well as cloud, so a lapsed subscription is not a blind door
Sensors

Entrance motion sensor

At night this brings the passage up to about ten per cent rather than full glare. It is consistently the automation people are most pleased with and least likely to have asked for.

  • Brightness follows the time of day, so it is dim at 3am and normal at 7pm
  • Also tells the system nobody has moved for hours, which "away" mode uses
The hub

The hub

The box that holds the schedules, the scenes and the rules. Because they live here rather than in a data centre, an internet outage costs you remote access and nothing else — the house carries on.

  • Buy more hub than you need now; it is the hardest part to change later
  • Put it somewhere central and wired, not in a corner behind the router
Energy

Energy monitoring

A clamp at the distribution board that shows where the units are actually going. Usually the answer is the geyser and the AC, and usually it is more than people guess.

  • Most useful in the first month, when it changes a habit or two
  • Per-circuit monitoring tells you much more than a single whole-home figure

Main bedroom

Lighting

Bedroom lighting

The one that sells the whole idea: turning off every light in the flat without getting out of bed. Two-way control from the bedside and the door, without running new wires for a second switch.

  • A bedside button is worth more here than any app
  • Warm dimming in the evening is worth more than colour
Climate

Bedroom AC control

On fifteen minutes before you usually get into bed, so the room is comfortable rather than cold and then warm again. Off automatically if the balcony door is opened.

  • Pairs with the door sensor so you are not cooling the corridor
  • The 3am setpoint change is where the saving actually is
Curtains

Bedroom curtains

Opening at seven changes your mornings more than any light does. If you only motorise one room, this is the room.

  • Blackout fabric is heavy — the motor has to be specified for the weight
  • A sunrise opening plus a gentle lamp beats an alarm clock

Bathroom

Sensors

Bathroom sensor and exhaust

Light on when someone walks in, and the exhaust fan carries on for ten minutes after they leave — which is exactly what an exhaust fan should do and almost never does.

  • Humidity-triggered is better than timed if the sensor supports it
  • Keep a manual override; a sensor that gets the shower wrong is infuriating

Second bedroom

Lighting

Second bedroom

Often the room to leave until later. If it is a study or a child's room it earns automation; if it is the guest room it can wait, usually indefinitely.

  • Wire the box for it now even if you fit the module next year
  • A desk here is a better argument for good lighting than the bed is

This is a model, not a quotation

The flat above is a realistic 2 BHK of about 950 sq ft with a fairly complete installation in it — nineteen devices, which is more than most homes start with. It is here so you can see what the words on the rest of this site actually look like in a house, and so you can judge for yourself which parts you would want.

What it cannot tell you is what your home needs. That depends on your wiring, your doors, where your router sits and which rooms you actually use. Those are survey questions, and no amount of 3D answers them.

A fair warning about the scenes. The lights, curtains and locks respond instantly here because it is a model. In a real house a curtain motor takes eight to twelve seconds to run a track, and a scene that touches a dozen devices takes a second or two to settle. That is normal and it is not something to design around.

Where to go from here

Questions

No — it is a generic 2 BHK of about 950 sq ft, drawn to show the devices rather than to resemble any particular flat. Your layout, your wiring and which rooms you actually use all change the answer. That is what the survey is for.

Technically yes, and we would usually talk you out of it. Nineteen devices is a fairly complete installation. Most homes start with four or five and add the rest once they have lived with them and know what they actually reach for.

Because the price of any one of these depends on which product goes in and what the wiring turns out to allow, and a number here that a survey then contradicts would be worse than no number. The scope estimator on the pricing page gives you device counts, which is the part you can check a quote against.

The 3D view needs WebGL, which almost every browser from the last decade has, but it is sometimes switched off on older machines or by a privacy extension. When it cannot run, the same nineteen devices appear as a plain list with the same information in it — nothing is lost except the turning around.

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