Nikobus Installation in Eight-Bedroomed Property in Belgium

This eight-bedroomed property in a village just outside Gent is owned by Patrick Van Steelandt. Having decided to completely refurnish the property and redesign its floor plan, the time was right to include a home automation system as well as distributed audio and video.

Being the Commercial Director of Niko, Mr Van Steelandt naturally chose to have a Niko system installed and to consult the company's technical expert, Didier Legrand, on the possibilities to consider. The project took six months to complete and cost 50,000 Euros. The project was also managed by Didier Legrand, and installed by Robert Boon.

The goal for this project was to deliver a comfortable retreat for relaxation and entertaining for business and pleasure. With areas for working, relaxing, entertaining and exercise, the automation and AV distribution needed to be flexible, adaptable and easy to control, from anywhere in the house.

The specification for home automation and distributed AV was not an initial priority in the refurbishment plan, so it was thought that RF would be used to control the house. However, since RF has a limited range of 30m indoors and 100m outdoors, it was soon realized that that the project would probably be too big for RF, so hard-wiring using Nikobus, which is a 9V din-rail bus system comprising mountable modules, that runs on its own two-wire cable, would be the best solution for accommodating Mr Van Steelandt's current and future needs.

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