Everyday things he couldn't do himself.
The client has limited mobility. Opening a window, getting through a door, closing a blind or changing the lighting were all things he needed someone else to do.
His family and his care staff also needed to run the house day to day, so whatever we installed had to work for all of them, not just for him.
One system for the whole home.
We brought the home's windows, doors, blinds, lighting and AV together in Control4.
The windows open and close on D+H chain drives. The blinds are Pellini SL20 Venetian blinds sealed inside the glazing, so there's nothing on the room side to reach, clean or damage. The AV is three televisions fed from a WyreStorm matrix, so any screen can show any source.
Everyone uses what suits them.
The client, his family and his staff each use whichever control suits them best: the phone app, a touch screen, a handheld remote or the scene controllers on the walls. They all operate the same system, so nobody has to learn a different way of doing things for each part of the house.
The principle hasn't changed.
This installation is around ten years old. The AV is simple by today's standards, and the products have moved on. The approach hasn't: start with what the person can't do, then make every part of the home work together so they can.