Make your house a smart home.
Imagine your home as a smart space that anticipates your family’s lifestyle needs.
GKW Smart seamlessly integrates the best off-the-shelf smart devices from top consumer brands, creating a personalized, intuitive and connected living experience at greatly reduced cost compared to traditional smart home installers. No more juggling multiple apps – we unify your smart home, making it effortless to control lighting, climate, security, and entertainment with a single touch or voice command.
What can my smart home do for me?
Just as each home is different, each smart home is different too. Below are some examples of the systems and features we can help you with.
Connectivity
The most fundamental aspect underpinning any smart home is a fast, reliable and secure internet connection running seamlessly throughout the home. We ensure wireless devices roam from one access point to another without dropping a connection and all fixed devices such as TVs have a stable wired connection.
Lifestyle
Use information from third party sources, such as weather forecasts, train times or waste collection schedules to further ease everyday life. Your home pro-actively alerts you if you’ll need an umbrella, your train is delayed or which bins will be collected the following morning.
Home Management
Control your home yourself using your voice, your phone, your laptop or wall-mounted control panels. Simultaneously leave your home to manage menial tasks itself using extensive automation and artificial intelligence capabilities. Your home automatically notifies you of anything that requires your attention.
Energy efficiency
Take advantage of variable tariffs to only charge vehicles, heat water, or use other high energy appliances when electricity is cheapest. Ensure lights are off in unoccupied parts of the house. Ensure windows are closed in parts of the house where the heating is on. Monitor your appliances’ energy usage over time.
Lighting
We can set scenes across your lighting to suit your mood, current activity or just to suit the time of day. Instantly turn off all the lights when it’s time for bed, consider illuminating your hallway gently at night when your presence is detected, or even turn them on remotely as a security feature.
Security
Use cameras and smart doorbells to monitor your home and control access. Use licence plate recognition to open your gate automatically for trusted vehicles. We can also combine this with presence detection to automatically alert you when suspicious activity is detected when no-one is home.
Climate control
Blinds, curtains, windows and skylights open and close automatically either according to your schedule or in response to indoor and outdoor conditions. Underfloor heating and radiators synced to your comfort. Extractor fans run in bathrooms according to the humidity level, not just when the light is turned on.
Entertainment
Enjoy the ultimate immersive audio and video experience for your lounge, cinema or games room. We can work with your smart devices either neatly integrated into your walls or ceiling, or proudly on display.
Custom monitoring
Use custom detectors to monitor for specific circumstances, such as whether there is post in the postbox, your flower border needs watering, or your garage has flooded due to excess rain. Virtually any aspect of life can be automated or facilitated with the integration of the right data and sensors.
Why invest in a Smart Home?
We focus on smart home solutions that integrate the latest in consumer technology innovation. Despite being five to six years ahead of the technology used by traditional smart home installers, this enables far more flexible solutions at a far lower price point.
Easier
Your home responds to your presence and acts accordingly, even anticipating your needs. Control your home with your phone, your voice or conveniently located control panels.
Cheaper to Build
Build on the systems already in your home, rather than starting from scratch. Use off-the-shelf smart home products and combine their functionality using free software.
Cheaper to Run
Combine control of blinds, curtains, windows and heating to minimise energy usage and loss. Use presence detection to light and heat only the parts of the home that are in occupied.
Safer
Integrate cameras and security system insights into other aspects of your home, such as licence plate recognition or alerting when people are detected while no-one is home
Clearer
Monitor your energy usage across any period and understand what activities contribute the most to energy costs. Use data gathered locally by your home to better automate it.
Healthier
Use environmental monitoring of brightness, temperature, air quality, wind direction and humidity to control window and blind positions automatically.
Projects we cover
It doesn’t matter what the scope or size of your project is – from a new build to optimizing and integrating pre-existing systems in your current home, we can help.
New Build
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Extension / Renovation
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Retrofit
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Integrating Existing Systems
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We can realize your Smart Home ambitions. Here’s how.
Consultation & Quote
We will help you to understand how you live your life and how a smart home could help with what is most important to you – be it your family routine, your interests or your budget.
Design
Once your needs and budget have been established, we will produce a detailed design highlighting what systems will need to be installed, integrated and programmed.
Installation
Depending on the scope of the design, we will either dleiver the entirety of the installation or we will work with your existing builder and trades from first fix to finishing.
Commissioning
We will verify all functionality and work with you to ensure the automated aspects of your smart home meet your expectations.
Training
We will walk you through all aspects of your new smart home and show you how to control and how it will respond to your needs. We will also deliver written documentation and final as-built dosign documentation.
Support
Our support services are available on an ongoing basis to help you ensure your smart home continues to meet your needs. This covers changes to automations, maintenance, upgrades and further training.
About Us
GKW Smart is based in Haslemere, Surrey and serves Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex. It was founded by Gavin Kinghall Were with the belief that there is a better way to build a modern smart home. Taking cutting edge products from a range of top consumer brands and integrating them together using free, open-source software allows for a fully customisable, capable, tightly integrated solution that achieves outstanding value for money compared to run-of-the-mill smart home solutions.
Gavin Kinghall Were has 25 years experience building cutting edge technology solutions for the mobile industry, with past roles at Nokia, Skype, Microsoft, Google, Huawei and a number of related startups. In 2020 he started applying his technical knowledge and practical abilities to the task of building his own smart home, with a strong focus on flexibility, tight integration and overall value for money. He successfully achieved this goal while spending an order of magnitude less than the cost of employing a traditional smart home installer and quickly realized the opportunity to take this approach to a wider audience.
Gavin Kinghall Were
Founder
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