Scale changes the engineering, not the idea
The devices in a landed home are the same devices we fit in a flat. What changes is that there are five times as many of them, spread across a building that radio has to travel through, with a network that now genuinely needs designing.
A Zigbee or Thread network across three storeys needs mains-powered routers deliberately placed on each floor, not just wherever a plug happened to be. Get this wrong and the top-floor sensors drop out at random for months before anyone works out why.
Access points, cameras and wall tablets all want a cable. Retrofitting cable into a finished landed home is the most expensive thing on any quotation, and the cheapest thing to plan for during renovation.
The hub, the switch and the network want to be on a UPS. A landed home usually has the space for a small rack, and that is the difference between a five-minute outage and a five-minute outage that also takes down the gate.
A home this size needs the dashboard organised by floor and by household member, or nobody except the person who commissioned it will ever use it.
What landed homes automate that flats do not
Gates and driveway
Auto gates, roller shutters and the driveway lights are usually the first thing an owner wants on the phone. A gate is integrated through a dry-contact relay on the existing controller rather than by replacing it, so the physical remote keeps working. Number-plate recognition on the driveway camera can open the gate as you arrive, which is the automation that gets shown to visitors.
Perimeter and cameras
A landed home has an actual perimeter, which means a real camera plan: coverage of every approach, local recording to a machine in the house, and motion zones drawn tightly enough that the system does not alert on a passing cat. Recording stays on your own storage - a subscription that holds your footage on someone else's servers is a recurring cost and a privacy problem.
Irrigation, pool and plant
Garden irrigation on a soil-moisture and weather-forecast schedule, pool pump and heater on a timed cycle, and water tank or booster pump monitoring so a failure raises an alert rather than a flood. None of this is exotic; it is a relay and a sensor per item, and it is the part that quietly earns its keep.
Lighting at whole-house scale
Staircase lighting that follows you up three floors, facade lighting on astronomical sunset timing, and a single goodnight action that closes the house down. This is where a landed home feels different from anything an app bundle can do.
Doing it during construction or A and A works
If you are building or doing addition and alteration works, this is the moment. Conduit for cameras and access points, a small comms cupboard, neutral at every switch, power at every curtain track, and a cable to the gate cost very little while the walls are open and a great deal afterwards.
We produce a device and cabling plan your M and E contractor can build to, then commission the system once the finishes are in. Bring the architect drawings to the design session.
What it costs
Landed pricing runs at roughly two and a half times the equivalent 4-room scope, which reflects device count, cable runs and commissioning time rather than a different rate card. A Premium landed build is quoted as a band because the spread between a terrace and a GCB is genuine.
Use the configurator for an indicative range, then let us walk the property.