Legrand will outfit four of the dozen homes in...
Legrand will outfit four of the dozen homes in MainStreet America with On-Q audio, video and lighting systems, the company said Thursday. MainStreet America, scheduled to open in October outside of Houston, is a 45,000-square-foot complex billed as a “progressive…
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approach to home building” that will allow customers to tour homes, look at home designs and scan features, fixtures and amenities using RFID scanners on mobile devices to gather more information. Legrand products will be featured in homes ranging from $150,000-$616,000, including a net zero home called Wakefield that’s designed to generate its own electricity without producing any carbon emissions, the company said. Featured products will include On-Q Unity Home and multi-room audio, intercom and camera systems, the company said. Product installation and configuration will be handled by Connect One Security. Legrand studied each home’s architectural and interior design and then “crafted a realistic system that best suited each home,” said Legrand spokesman Brian Bianca. Homes with pools are outfitted with outdoor cameras and LCD displays to show how parents can monitor children from anywhere, he said, and larger three- and four-story homes have intercom systems to facilitate communication. The smallest home displays the company’s retrofit products to show that existing homeowners shouldn’t be limited in design choices “just because the drywall is already up,” Bianca said. Legrand plans to outfit two of MainStreet America’s 12 models - Ashby Manor and Timber Groves - with its next-generation lighting, audio and connectivity products, due out next month, and Legrand systems will also be featured in MainStreet America’s home automation design center, the company said. Legrand is the second consumer electronics company to announce technology plans for MainStreet America. Control4 announced in May that it was participating in the home product “theme park” but a product list hadn’t been confirmed at the time. A company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday that Control4 technology will be displayed in two homes but a product list wasn’t available by our deadline.