Smart home consultancy, integration & care
AntSmartHomes designs, builds and looks after high-end connected homes — networks, lighting, audio, video, climate and security engineered as one system rather than a drawer full of apps.
01 Why us
Five trades, four apps, three remotes and a router in a cupboard. We take single-point responsibility — from the first conversation with your architect to the day, years later, when a firmware update needs a steady hand.
We specify, install, program and support it. No finger-pointing between trades.
Cabling, network and power done properly. Everything clever depends on it.
Keypads a guest can read. Automations you never think about. Kit you never see.
Documented, monitored and maintained — not handed over and forgotten.
02 Services
Take the lot, or the one piece that's letting the rest down. Every project starts with the same question: what should this house actually do?
Structured cabling, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi, VLANs that keep the kids' consoles away from the door locks, and a rack that a future engineer can actually read.
Layered light that flatters the architecture. Scenes that shift with the sun, keypads engraved in plain English, and dimming that never buzzes.
Music that follows you room to room, from invisible in-ceiling arrays to a listening chair and a proper pair of speakers. Tuned in the room, not from a spec sheet.
From a discreet TV that lifts out of joinery to an acoustically treated, tiered cinema room. Video distributed everywhere without a set-top box in sight.
The layer that makes it a smart home rather than smart things. One interface, sensible defaults, and logic that reacts to occupancy, daylight and time — not to you fiddling with a phone.
Cameras that record locally, locks that let the dog walker in on a Tuesday, and heating that stops fighting the underfloor. Comfort and safety on the same brain.
02b The kit
Behind the rack and the cabling, a smart home is three or four objects on a wall. They should be legible to a guest at midnight and beautiful in daylight.
Scenes named in plain English, engraved and backlit. No guessing which button is which.
One screen for the whole floor — lighting, climate, audio and security in a single glance.
Per-zone heating that stops the underfloor and the radiators fighting each other.
03 Process
Whether you're at planning permission or living with a system that never quite worked, the route in is the same.
We start with how you live, not with a product list. A site visit, a conversation about mornings, guests, films and holidays — then an honest view of budget, phasing and what genuinely earns its place.
Output — scope, budget band, feasibility notes
Drawings your electrician can build from. Cable schedules, rack elevations, lighting circuits, keypad engraving schedules and a fixed specification — coordinated with your architect, M&E and joiner before a single wall closes.
Output — full design pack & fixed proposal
First fix, second fix, rack build and commissioning, sequenced around the site programme. We attend site meetings, mark up changes as they happen, and calibrate every room before we call it finished.
Output — commissioned system & handover training
Remote monitoring, firmware managed on our schedule rather than at 6pm on a Friday, and a named engineer who already knows your house. Tweaks as the family changes. That's the part most installers skip.
Output — ongoing care plan & documented system
04 Selected work
Proactive monitoring on managed systems, with faults often fixed before you notice them.
Target response for a critical fault — no internet, no heating, no security — on a care plan.
Documented handover. Drawings, passwords, licences and a manual written for humans.
One point of responsibility for the whole system, for the life of the system.
Arrive home
Gates, drive lighting, hall lamps and heating brought up in sequence as you turn into the road — not a phone pulled out on a dark doorstep.
05 Studio
AntSmartHomes takes on a handful of projects at a time so the person who designed your system is the person who programs it — and the person who picks up the phone in three years' time.
They were the only people who asked how we actually live before showing us a single product.
Private client · London
Our first system was four apps and a lot of shouting. This one, the kids just use. So do our guests.
Private client · Hertfordshire
The drawings arrived before first fix and matched what got built. Rare, in my experience.
Project architect · Surrey
06 Questions
As early as you have a floor plan. Most of what makes a smart home good — cable routes, lighting circuits, rack location, plant-room power — is decided long before anyone chooses a keypad. We're happy to sit in a single design meeting to sanity-check a scheme, even if the build is two years out.
Yes. Retrofit is a large part of what we do. Wireless lighting control, mesh networking and battery-powered sensors mean an existing home can get most of the benefit without redecorating — we'll be straight with you about the handful of things that genuinely need a cable.
No. We're platform-agnostic and specify what suits the house, the budget and how long you plan to live there. Where it makes sense we'll build on open standards — KNX, Matter, Thread — so a future owner or a future engineer isn't trapped.
It scales with the house. A network and lighting-control package for a family home sits in a very different band to a full cinema and whole-house integration. After the first visit you'll get a budget band before you spend anything on design, so nobody wastes their time.
Systems on a care plan are monitored remotely, so we often see a failure before you do. Most issues are resolved without a visit; where a visit is needed, you get an engineer who already knows the house and has the drawings in front of them.
Only what you choose. We segregate IoT devices onto their own network, keep camera recording local by default, and can build a system that works entirely without cloud services if that matters to you. We'll always tell you which parts depend on someone else's server.
07 Start here
A first conversation is free and genuinely useful — even if you decide to do nothing for a year. Send a few lines and we'll come back within two working days.
