Walk into a $10M home in Buckhead or a custom estate in Milton and you will find a very different set of technologies than a consumer smart home. The platforms that professionals specify for high-end residential projects are purposely designed for the demands of luxury living: flawless reliability, deep integration depth, and interfaces that are as beautiful as the homes they serve.
Crestron
Crestron is the gold standard of residential automation — and commercial automation, and hospitality, and corporate AV. The same platform that controls meeting rooms at Fortune 500 companies controls the finest private residences in the world. This is not coincidence: Crestron's engineering pedigree demands performance that no consumer platform approaches.
Crestron systems are programmed in SIMPL+ or SIMPL#Pro, proprietary languages that require specialized training. This creates a higher barrier to entry — and a ceiling that is essentially unlimited. Every device that exists can be integrated into a Crestron system given the right driver or custom code. Response times are measured in milliseconds. Reliability over decades of operation is documented at thousands of installations.
Control4
Control4 is the most widely deployed professional home automation platform — and the right choice for the majority of luxury residential projects. The OS3 platform offers an elegant, intuitive interface, an enormous library of certified device integrations, and outstanding reliability. For clients who want comprehensive whole-home automation at a significant but not maximum investment, Control4 is consistently our recommendation.
Savant
Savant's strength is aesthetic. The Savant app is the most beautifully designed interface in the professional residential space — it feels more like a premium consumer product than any other professional platform. Savant has deep roots in Apple's ecosystem and appeals particularly to design-conscious clients and Apple-native households. Performance is excellent; the platform excels in AV-centric integrations.
Lutron Homeworks QS and QSX
Lutron is not a full-home automation platform, but it is the undisputed leader in what it does: lighting and shading control. Lutron's Clear Connect wireless protocol is proprietary, dedicated, and extraordinarily reliable. Every luxury integration we complete includes Lutron for lighting and shading — regardless of which platform handles the broader automation. The two work seamlessly together through integration drivers.
Josh.ai
Josh.ai is the professional voice control platform designed specifically for luxury residential integrations. Unlike consumer voice assistants, Josh.ai processes voice commands locally, integrates directly with Control4 and Crestron, and can be customized for each property. It does not sell your data. It does not trigger on false positives from the television. It responds to the natural language patterns of your family. This is the voice interface we specify when clients want voice control done at the highest level.