Need suggestion on hardwire home automation and controlling through URC

[yogesh]

Friends,

I have joined this forum today and amazed to see the quality of posts and reply. Want to congratulated everybody for managing such an informative forum. What I have understood from the posts here is that hardwired home automation system provides better control compared to a wireless solutions, so I will want to go for a hardwired system, my requirements from system are below :

1- I need to control around 96 circuits that includes lights, fans and power sockets.
2- I want to control the circuits both from touch pads as well as through URC, preferably logitech harmony 1000, as it is very convenient to use.

Please suggest which solution should I go for? My budget is between 10,000 US$ to 15000 US$

Thanks and Regards,
Yogesh

 

[DavidL]

Not sure on the pricing diff between where you are and US (assuming it's not US), but it seems that outside of US is typically more expensive per device load.

rounding off to 100 devices (loads), that would be $100 to $150 per device. This is a fairly significant scale system.
If you paid $100 per load, that would provide $5K for a control system. That is tight if touchscreen hardware is in that $5K.

Is this new construction or retrofit?

Either way, you might want to look into UPB or ZWave. Possibly Insteon as well. These are retrofit capable technologies. Somewhere around $60 - $100 per control load (plus control system). This does not include labor, just the base parts.

You can use PC based software to manage the system. Anywhere from $500 - $2K for that for commercial grade stuff (not shareware). Hardware for the controller minimum $1.5K for quality. IR transceiver $200 or so. Touchscreen hardware $1100 - 3K each location.

Above are rough, just to get you thinking.

 

[twilo123]

if you use the 1000 you can control windows media center and use any HA product that has a plugin for it. i.e. homeseer, mcontrol, hai, etc. use an extender for rf to ir control and an IR controller for your pc such as a pinnacle one. this way you don't have to worry about line of sight. just output to the t.v. for visuals.