Increase efficiency of resources and reduce energy costs for your Detroit or Birmingham, Michigan business with commercial building automation systems and intelligent Crestron technology. It’s a smart way to run your business. Network control and real-time usage monitoring of lighting systems, heating, ventilation and cooling, and audio/video allows for automatic power-down or optimized adjustments when systems and rooms are not being used. All building systems may be monitored from one central location, whether you have one building or an entire campus of technology-integrated spaces. Uptime and reliability is greater and users adopt the smart technology to be more productive, which increases the return on investment both with reduced labor costs and better collaboration. Remote diagnostics and troubleshooting minimizes downtime and service costs.

Productivity for important rooms in your business such as a conference room, boardroom, or executive office is increased when all the smart technology and subsystems work together with simple control. Imagine a custom conference room design for your Birmingham office. When presenting to clients from a laptop, pressing a single “presentation” button dims lights, lowers blackout shades, and turns on your video display and audio components. By integrating everything in a room from audio, video, lights, window treatments, networking, and communications, you have complete and easy control from a single touchscreen, keypad, remote or mobile device. No more walking over to turn off lights and lower shades or wasting time and getting frustrated during in-person or video conference meetings.

Maybe you'd like to make the perfect ambiance possible and increase comfort in every part of the office. Or perhaps you're just looking for a few easy ways to save energy through the smart balancing of both electric light and daylight. Have lights turn off automatically when employees or guests leave rooms to save on energy bills. Set lights in the waiting room to a warm, welcoming glow while lights in the surgical room are bright enough for procedures. Program lights to dim automatically as the sun sets so your guests hardly notice a change and your staff isn’t running around turning lights off manually. No matter what your intention, intelligent lighting is always a bright idea.

Experience your HD media content in your office from any location with the simple press of one button. Smart media control gives you simple access to high definition video and audio content regardless if the source is analog, digital, cable or satellite, stored on a server, or streamed from the internet. If you want to watch live sports, display a company video, listen to a news radio station, or provide background music from an iPhone®, employees can effortlessly select to view or listen from simple control interfaces such as a touch screen or keypad. Let us create the perfect media control solution to meet your needs. It’s time to ditch the stack of remotes or clutter of wall controls.

Integrating non-intrusive occupancy monitoring with a smart technology system enables advanced energy-efficiency optimization to be realized. A variety of environmental sensors for motion, acoustic, and heat are positioned within the space to effectively determine if anyone is in the room and trigger automatic adjustments to subsystems such as electric lighting and window treatments, HVAC, audio and video. You no longer need to worry that the AC is blasting or lights are on when nobody is in the room. Additionally, usage patterns over time are analyzed and sensitivity levels of the sensors are adapted accordingly.

With automated shades you can easily adjust the amount of daylight in your space to increase comfort, save energy, and protect interiors. Automated shading and drapery transforms harsh glare into soft pleasing light, enhances privacy while preserving exterior views, reduces solar heat gain, and provides UV protection of expensive furnishings and artwork. Have a game changing presentation? The ability to transform daytime into nighttime for theatric presentations worthy of cinematic ambiance can make all the difference in communicating your message to an enthusiastic audience with the simple press of a button. Owners and members of the design team have hundreds of window treatment fabric and color options available to complement any décor.