Why Structure Wiring or SMART Wiring Is Important

New and existing homes and buildings need an improved wiring method to handle all of these new electronic services and equipment, now and into the future.

Why Structure Wiring or SMART Wiring Is Important...

Article Excerpted content from Smart Homes for Dummies, Danny Briere

The most relevant aspect of this technology is that it is for NOW. Many will refer to this as "future proofing " the home, IT IS NOT THE FUTURE ANYMORE! In today's world, especially in Central Texas, there is abundant technology available and uses for it.

HOW IT WORKS:
Smart wiring uses a star configuration. All of the audio, video, voice and data outlets are "home run" back to a central location. There is a central distribution point and inputs and outputs.

The Information Superhighway is no dream of the future. It is in place now, even though it continues to evolve. Within its vast network of cables, wire and fiber optics, it carries more information in a few seconds than has been recorded in all previous history. We have multiple telephone lines, cable andsatellite television, multiple computers,home offices with fax, modems and the Internet at our service. Not to mention home shopping, banking and interactive television. It would have been difficult to imagine these things just ten years ago.
What is in store for the next ten years?
New and existing homes need an improved wiring method to handle all of these newelectronic services and equipment, now and into the future. A Structured Wiring System provides this critical wiring infrastructure for whole house distribution of multiple telephone lines, high speed data, cable and satellite TV, cable modems, as well as security,video cameras and other internal video sources. All of this, in a flexible modular installation which can accommodate future changes, additions and even home automation.
The heart of the system is the Connection Center where all incoming service cables terminate. From here they are distributed to any or all rooms of the home with high speed, high quality telephone,computer and video cabling, terminating in attractive multimedia wall plates.

Traditionally, homes have been wired for two things only - power and telephone. Add to this a couple of haphazardly run cable TV outlets and some doorbells and you have the whole sum of wiring for most homes. Some people have an alarm system put in, with its own unique set of wires, and maybe an audio system, again with its own set of wires. Put it all together and you have a bunch of wires running throughout your house, each group doing its own thing, none of them talking to each other or, for the most part, being good for anything else.
Even more important than the quantity of wires in most homes is the quality. Talk to a home automation expert or a cable company engineer who is working on bringing high speed data services to residences and you'll find that one of their biggest concerns, if not the biggest, is the quality of the wires inside of most homes. And this problem doesn't just apply to homes that were built 50 years ago - many brand new homes are being built with wiring systems that are just plain inadequate for the requirements of today's wired citizens.

The low voltage wires (telephone and cable wires for example) don't have adequate capacity for high speed data use, or for multiple phone lines. They don't go to enough places in the house, and they have no flexibility of configuration. Often they are not adequately isolated from interference and line noise caused by electrical power cables.

In other words, you're stuck with what you have, and if your needs change - and they will - you'll most likely have to go through and rewire to accommodate them.

Luckily overcoming these difficulties isn't hard - or even terribly expensive. All you need is a little knowledge and a good plan.
Smart Wiring is really pretty simple. Outlets in your home are wired with high bandwidth wiring that replaces ordinary telephone and cable wires with so much more. This wiring all 'home-runs' to a central control panel, making it easy to connect new services and distribute them throughout your home.

Make your home ready for a Broadband computer network, satellite, HDTV, networked security, Home Entertainment Networks, and whole home audio. Our systems will allow you to do more with your home today and will keep you ready for the future as well. Home control and automation, energy management, even smart appliances will all run on our Smart Wired Systems. You will only wire your new house once. Wire it for today and tomorrow.

Excerpted content from Smart Homes for Dummies, Danny Briere