private single-family estate with a front and back wing, staff quarters, and a roof pavilion. Lutron lighting and shading, whole-house audio and video, Control4 automation, and layered security and fire detection, run from one equipment rack across a multi-wing Ikoyi estate.
The brief for this Ikoyi estate covered ten separate systems, from whole-house audio and video to gated entry and fire detection, spread across a front wing, back wing, staff quarters, and a roof pavilion. A hardened panic room needed its own access control, telephony, and power, run independent of everything else in the house.
A Lutron HomeWorks QS processor carries lighting, and later motorized Sivoia QS shading added under a change order, across every wing from the same wired keypads and Pico wireless controllers.
Control4 controllers sit behind the touchscreens and iPad stations, routing whole-house audio and DStv video to whichever of the eighteen wired rooms calls for it.
The same ground-floor keypad also arms the gate motors and the perimeter cameras, so entry and lighting close the property down together.
Whole-house audio reaches eighteen rooms, from the banquet hall to the roof pavilion, off one set of centrally racked sources. A track started in the dining room can be paused there and picked up again upstairs without restarting.