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Wellness: The Growing Trend in Smart Home Automation

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Create a Healthier Home with Today’s Technology

Treating our homes as a space to rejuvenate and heal from the effects of a sometimes-stressful world has long been a part of our human makeup. From creating outdoor retreats to reconnect with nature to designing rooms for yoga and quiet meditation , we’ve explored different approaches to finding balance and renewing our vitality. 

Today, the growing trend is using smart home automation to enhance wellness and create a healthier home. Let’s explore a few of the possibilities and how technology is helping homeowners in Zionsville, IN, live more balanced lives.

4 Rooms That Benefit from Smart Home Automation

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Discover the Impressive Features of Lighting Control, Motorized Shades, and Smart Home Technology

Smart home automation comes in all shapes and sizes. For example, some homeowners want a smart security system to remotely access and control their locks, doors, and cameras. Others want smart control of their whole-home audio systems or home theaters. Lastly, lighting and shading control are other luxurious benefits of smart home automation.

Whatever your preference, you’ll find that every smart home technology you add elevates the overall living experience at your home in Fishers, IN. Complete smart home automation aims to introduce more luxury to your life through seamless interaction with technology. In this blog, we’ll focus on four areas in your home that benefit from lighting, shading, and smart home control.

How Smart Home Automation Brings Innovation to Life

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Imagine How a Crestron or Control4 Smart Home System Will Transform Your Life

Living is easy with one-touch control of all technology in a smart home. Home automation is designed to cater to your comfort, style, and convenience. When you have a home with technologies integrated in a smart home system, such as Crestron or Control4, you experience the ultimate in luxurious living.

Why settle for anything less when you can have the best? A Control4 or Crestron smart home automation system does it all for you. You’ll have seamless control of all your home’s sophisticated systems, yet they’ll be so easy to control. From the lights and motorized shades to your home entertainment system, you control everything by tapping an icon. Keep reading to discover how Control4 and Crestron elevate your lifestyle in Indianapolis, IN.

Which Smart Home Automation System Is the Best?

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Comparing Control4 and Crestron

We see lots of products today labeled ‘smart home technology.’ From Nest thermostats to Philips Hue LEDs, these products can be controlled through remotes or phone apps. Many of them can be incorporated into a smart home automation system, but none of these devices on their own will make your home actually ‘smart.’

There are, however, brands that can sync all your technology for a truly automated home. Control4 and Crestron are arguably the most talked-about names in the market. Both Control4 and Crestron can control your lights, audio, thermostats, TVs, security devices, and much more.

But which is best for your house? The Premier Group is one of the few Control4 and Crestron dealers in Indiana with a certified showroom. We’ll share the differences and similarities between both systems so you can find the perfect solution for your Fishers-area home.

CEPro Top 100 for 2014

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CEPro Magazine is the industry leading trade publication for the consumer electronics professional.  Every year for the past 16 years CEPro lists the Top 100 Integrators in the U.S.  Once again, The Premier Group has been honored with making this prestigious list for 2014.  While making the list alone is a quite an accomplishment, what it truly amazing is that this year marks the 11th consecutive year Premier has made the Top 100.  

How to Customize Your Indianapolis Smart Home with a Control4 Installation

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A smart home does much more than just control your lights and TV with your phone. It can automatically start and stop every feature in your home without you having to even lift a finger. The magic of automation means that you can customize all of the technology in your home so that it mirrors your day-to-day activities and schedules. In this blog well illustrate what a typical day is like in the life of a family with a Control4 smart home automation system in the Indianapolis, Indiana area. 

SEE ALSO: Control4 Expands Smart Home Automation Features for New & Improved Experiences

Control4 Offers Smart Home Controls for Everyone

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Just as fashion reflects your personal style, technology has the ability to display your personality too. You have a lot of different devices to choose from, and there’s no one right way to control your smart home. With that in mind, we want to elaborate on the different options you have to control your Indianapolis, IN area home. Whether you want to keep it old school and use a universal remote, or get the newest wearable technology, Control4 and The Premier Group have something for everyone. 

SEE ALSO: Smart Home Secrets: What do you really need for a top-notch system?

Get Ready for the Holidays with Smart Home Automation

Get Ready for the Holidays with Smart Home Automation

The last three months of the year have the Holiday heavy hitters- Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Whether you love dressing up in a scary costume, enjoying a football game before a turkey dinner, or decorating the house for Christmas or Hanukah, there are so many fun activities to participate in this time of year. When you have smart home automation, organizing and enjoying special occasions can be so much easier. We have some tips for you as you prepare for the holidays in your Zionsville, Indiana home.

SEE ALSO:  Control4 Expands Smart Home Automation Features for New & Improved Experiences

The Best Features of a Honeywell Alarm System

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Indiana is well known for a couple thingsone being our love of Basketball and the other unpredictable weatherincluding freezing cold and snow. When it gets bitter in Indianapolis, Indiana this time of year, many people flock to the south for the winter, take a warm tropical vacation or just find any kind of excuse to get out of the below-freezing temperatures. Now is the best time to make sure your home is safe and secure so that while youre way you can have peace of mind that everything is OK. The Premier Group installs Honeywell security systems and IC Realtime surveillance cameras to protect what matters to you most. Here are some of the best features of our security solutions.

SEE ALSO: New and Improved Security Cameras

Enjoy Entertainment Without Compromising on Design

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Are you struggling with the placement of your TV as you’re designing your living room? Is the most obvious placement above the fireplace, but you’re not sure you want to see a TV over the fireplace? Most designers don’t love sticking a TV over the fireplace, but we have at least three elegant solutions they go crazy for that merge functionality, placement and design all into one. We are confident that we have a solution for you.

There are many options available, but we want to share three of our go-to design recommendations when one of our customers is placing a TV over the fireplace. These include a Seura Mirror TV, a Samsung Frame TV, and a Leon Motorized Art Lift

Back to School Tech

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You may still be enjoying that summer vacation or parties at the pool, but school is right around the corner. Before you know it, it will be time to get supplies and get back into a routine. A home automation system installed in your Carmel, IN home can help by guiding your schedule every day using lights, audio/video and more. Here are some great ideas on how to go back to school organized.

SEE ALSO: How to Entertain Guests with Home Automation

Use Your Smart Home to Wake Up

There’s nothing harder than having to wake up super early—unless you’re a morning person. To start getting used to hearing that alarm go off at 5 a.m. after sleeping in all summer, create a wake up scene using a Control4 system. Create a playlist of some fun songs and schedule them to come on at 5 a.m. You can even make the volume start off soft and gradually get louder to not startle you out of a heavy sleep. At the same time, your lights will turn on at 50%, the shades will open, and the TV in your bedroom will turn on the morning news. 

You can do the same thing for your children too. Ask them which songs they would like to hear in the morning while they get ready, and program their lights and shades to activate at 6 a.m. after you’ve had your coffee or got in a morning workout. 

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Want to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions? Your Smart Home Can Help

Want to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions? Your Smart Home Can Help

As we roll in to a new year, there’s plenty to look forward to.

Not the least of which is the various ways we hope to improve ourselves.

But unless you were born yesterday, you know how hard it can be to keep your new year’s resolutions.

3 Benefits to Automating Your Motorized Shades

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Motorized shades are often thought of as a luxury item. However, when compared to traditional window treatments, there are quite a number of compelling reasons why you should consider them for your home. They are offered in endless colors, patterns, and fabrics for both decorative and blackout shades. They can also be installed in a number of different ways depending on the end look that you are trying to achieve. Motorized shades can be hardwired for new construction, or retrofitted wirelessly into your existing home. The icing on the cake is that they can be automated to match your lifestyle and the time of day, whether you’re home or away. Beyond style and convenience, here are three key benefits to installing motorized shades.

Design Matters

Over the 20 years Premier has been in business, we can confidently say that the best projects are those where the trades work well together; making sure that each other’s work is completed at the highest level, all while collaborating across specialities to complete the project with the best possible result for the client.

The Premier Group Awarded Top Honor in North and South America for CEDIA Awards’ Top Category - “Integrated Home of the Year” for 2019

The Premier Group Awarded Top Honor in North and South America for CEDIA Awards’ Top Category - “Integrated Home of the Year” for 2019

Chicago, Illinois (July 25, 2019) - The Premier Group, a home technology integrator located in Carmel, Indiana was recognized as the CEDIA Awards’ top honor for “Integrated Home of the Year 2019” in North & South America for outstanding integrated system design and installation on July 25th in Chicago, Illinois held at The Drake Hotel.

Football Viewing Party

Football Viewing Party

“Are you ready for some football?!” We’re all familiar with this catchy NFL jingle, but are you really ready? What we mean is… is your home ready to host your friends and family for the big game? Do you have a spectacular viewing area with a super sized screen and amazing sound quality? If you cannot confidently answer “YES!” to that question, then please allow us to offer some creative solutions to make your home the place to gather for the upcoming football season. 

Premier Team Travels to Denver for Annual CEDIA Expo

Premier Team Travels to Denver for Annual CEDIA Expo

We are fresh off of our annual CEDIA EXPO trip to Denver, Colorado, where many from our team spent valuable time experiencing expert-delivered training alongside the latest technologies and products in our industry! CEDIA EXPO allows us to see, touch, and test-drive the most innovative products and trends driving the residential technology industry. The EXPO covers audio, video, control, security, automation, networking, energy management and more.

Crestron’s Unbeatable Warranty

Crestron’s Unbeatable Warranty

Since 1971, Crestron has been the industry leader in automation solutions that transform the way people live their lives inside their own home. Day-to-day tasks and routines have become more efficient and productive thanks to Crestron’s innovative connected home solutions and their latest “Crestron Home” (OS3) smart home platform. As a Crestron dealer, we aren’t just helping our clients buy high-end electronics, we are helping them invest in long term solutions for their home that are scalable and customizable. We are now proud to announce that you can own the world’s most elegant lighting and shade solution for your home with the peace-of-mind that comes with knowing it’s backed with an unprecedented lifetime warranty. 

Premier Named a CEDIA Finalist for “Integrated Home of the Year 2019” for 2nd Consecutive Year

Premier Named a CEDIA Finalist for “Integrated Home of the Year 2019” for 2nd Consecutive Year

PRESS RELEASE (June 12th, 2019): Carmel, Indiana home technology provider recognized as a CEDIA Finalist, making them one of the top three Integrators in North & South America for outstanding integrated system design in this year’s “Integrated Home of the Year” at the 2019 CEDIA Awards on July 25th in Chicago, IL at The Drake Hotel.

“We are honored to have received the news that we are, once again, a finalist amongst the top Integrators in North & South America. Our team worked diligently in collaboration with our trade partners to enhance the architectural beauty of the home, and created a spectacular result for our client. We are excited to attend this year’s CEDIA Awards, and very much look forward to continuing our work with central Indiana homeowners.” - Jason Barth, CEO & Principal Designer

Form Meets Function with Artnovion

Form Meets Function with Artnovion

We are constantly curating our manufacturer and supplier relationships and our product lineup in order to make sure that we have a well-rounded set of options for all of our clients’ potential needs. In some cases, the stars align and the right product recommendation meets both the requirements for form AND function. One of our favorite new lines is from a vendor named Artnovion, who specializes in acoustical absorption panels that are engineered for performance but designed for emotion. They disguise the fact that your eyes are looking at a product artfully designed to blend seamlessly within a variety of architectural spaces, and yet your ears are amazed at the acoustical absorption benefits. Artnovion exists to push the boundaries of acoustic engineering to create this unique collection of trendsetting & high performance acoustic products to benefit any space.

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