A “smart home” is a house equipped with a number of devices that automate tasks normally handled by humans. The Smart home is equipped with lighting, heating, and electronic devices that can be controlled remotely by smartphone or computer.

At Talinda, we build smart home systems customized to your preference, we build KNX or Zigbee based systems from different vendors in the market. Creating smart home systems customized to your preference to help control appliances, security and energy management. We strive to increase your safety, comfort and convenience.

We all look forward to the dawn of a new day when we open our shades, blinds, curtains to allow natural lift in our homes. With only one click on your tablet or smart phone this is made possible at the start and end of the day. Have the power to easily adjust your settings based on prevailing weather conditions. Do this while at home, in the office or even on vacation remotely. Protect your home from effects of dust, heavy rains and winds wherever you are. Moreover, programming your lawn sprinklers to water your lawn at 5:30 in the morning has never been easier with our smart system. You also get to enjoy acoustic music set to match the mood in different rooms like the gym, dining areas and bedroom.

If most of your home’s lighting is in the ceiling and controlled by a switch on the wall, you might be better served by replacing those dumb switches with smart switches and dimmers. That’s because a smart bulb becomes dumb the instant you turn off the switch controlling it. Efficient light control assures that your lights go off when you go to bed. If you are at work and remember you forgot to switch of the lights, all you need to do is switch them off through your smartphone. While on vacation with the family, you can turn on or off your security lights from anywhere around the world.

Our smart home system movement sensors switch on the light when you enter a room and off when you exit. This ensure absolutely no waste of energy anymore. With a single touch, we create different light scenes for every occasion, allowing you to adjust the brightness or color of your lights to fit your mood.

What’s more convenient than pulling out your smartphone to dim the lights on movie night? Saying “dim the lights” and having a smart speaker linked to your smart lighting do it for you. The Amazon Echo Series and the Google Home series are the market leaders in this space.

The latest trend on this front is to equip thermostats with sensors that you can put in the rooms you occupy most frequently, so that the thermostat operates on the basis of where you are in the house, instead of triggering heating and cooling cycles based on the thermostat’s location, which is typically in a hallway you only ever pass through.

Our system helps manage the room temperature in your room in relation with the time of day or night or even the function of the room. In the morning, take a shower in a preheated bathroom. Get welcomed to a comfortable home with warmer temperatures in the cold seasons of May. To save on energy costs, heating is deactivated automatically deactivated when you are out of the house. Remotely control your ventilation, heating or air-conditioning for a refreshing feel. These automatic energy controls create a comfortable and energy efficient home.

One of the most pivotal parts of the smart home is the security systems. Not only do they enable you to watch over your home or set off alarms in times of emergencies, but also can notify you when your kids get home from school, show you who is at your door, and enable you to give access remotely. In a smart home, you automatically activate your alarm once you lock the door. Detect suspicious movement at your door with our movement sensors.

Moreover, if you are often out of town, you can set up a routine that gives the impression that you are home. Even with a full day at the office or doing errands in the market you can manage your alarm system remotely connecting cameras to the doorbells. This will help to physically or remotely monitor your access doors, receive security alerts and allow you interact with visitors without having to approach the door.

Basic intercom systems allow you to speak to the guard house and receive guest. With Smart Intercom systems on the other hand, you can use the video chat feature to talk to someone in another room, or someone outside of your front door, such as a deliveryman or mailman. You can set up your entertainment by syncing your music to play through intercoms around your house. You can even send videos around your home through a smart intercom system. 

Further, some homes prefer to personalize an intercom to receiving guests with a warm welcome message. Smart intercom systems are also integrated into the smart home control visualization system, converging the two requirements into one and saving some costs. When not at home check on your smartphone or tablet to provide or deny access remotely.

Fire, Smoke, liquid leakage and gas detection are proactive measures that can keep your house safe. Smart house systems incorporate sensors that can pick up these safety issues and send alarms to you on your mobile devices remotely.

There is so much more you can achieve by automating your house and deploying full smart home solutions. You could also build it up in phases, growing over time in number of areas you automate. These systems help you see through your home safety and energy efficiency while providing comfort and convenience. 

• Designed and built to your specific needs and pain points.
• Save on energy consumption by connecting to light, heating and cooling systems and home appliances.
• Smart security system that protects from intrusion can be connected to your alarms, monitored and can quickly alert security teams in case of emergency
• Remote access and monitoring of your home wherever you are.
• Door access control and monitoring
• Easy and quick visualization of all your smart appliances connected to your home eg some detectors, phones, TVs, fridges
• Provides the best entertainment spaces with acoustic music and light control.
• A worldwide standard – our KNX and Zigbee products are a worldwide standard with high quality, reliable and stable technology that is ready for the future.

Let us help you manage your smart home instantly through your smartphone or tablet. Set your speakers, log in to your alarm system, adjust your lights with just one click! It’s just as easy as checking your Facebook.  We are a KNX certified partner, we will design, build and maintain your smart home system. Call us on +254 700 446536 or send an email to info@talinda.net.

This service is exclusively for premium developments in Kenya and Uganda.

A glass walkway from the Koi Pond leads dramatically into the boutique hotel, Casa Bella. The colossal work of art with a 10-guest capacity, houses 3 ocean view rooms and 2 ocean view suites with breathtaking views, seclusion and exclusivity. The suites are perfect for honeymooners vacationing. They feature marble clad baths, vanity rooms and a private balcony. As a whole Casa Bella is also suitable for events like weddings and birthdays.

Founded in 2007 by the Giovando’s, Almanara prides in its top-class services which include free airport transfers, free breakfast, infinity pool, access to the beach, personal chef, butler service, and complimentary Wi-Fi. All this availed while creating a feel of home away from home keeping in tune with the Giovando family spirit. 

The garden villas bring an opulent feel of African ambience, local artwork, merged with modern amenities like telephony. Guests hosted in the villas required to easily access services like in-room breakfast after a long night of festivities or on-call butler. This resulted in the need for a modern telephony system that would help ease communication and movement ensuring guests were always comfortable. The air-conditioned villas, suitable for couples and families, feature en-suite bedrooms on two floors, with an open dinning plan, roof top terrace perfect for sundowners and serene views of Shimba Hills, pool bar and swimming pool area. We provisioned 6 IP phones in the villas that can connect directly to the Reception, Sails Restaurant, Kitchen, Bar, Gym and pool area.

As a key offering, Almanara prides in complimentary Free Wi-Fi just like most hotels, resorts and villas. But what sets it ahead of the park is the WiFi quality. Prior to Talinda’s engagement in this project, the staff and guests complained a lot about poor connectivity, low speed and latency. There were multiple dead spots which would lead to guests sticking around areas they felt the “signal” was stronger. 

Talinda came in to troubleshoot the network. We separated the Guest and Management into two separate networks to ensure the Guest and Staff Wi-Fi to share internet bandwidth separately ensuring more balanced usage. There was a total of 28 access points installed in the Administration, Sails Restaurant and the Villas configured on 2.4G and 5.8G radios. After running various heat maps, we added just one Ubiquiti access point to the network, restoring the quality of internet ensuring staff services and guest services are delivered efficiently to ensure a comfortable stay.

The network was quite stable for new IP telephony infrastructure in which we installed 27 IP phones in total in the Villas, Admin offices, TV rooms, Gate, Sails Restaurant, Pool area, etc. The phones would be connected by one IP PBX expandable to a capacity of 300 extensions, remotely managed and configurable. The phones would ease both internal (intercom) and external communication at Almanara. Furthermore, the villas have significantly cut costs on telephone bills in the past month since the installation.

Lastly, we worked on cable management and fiber splicing, upgrading the switches from non-PoE to PoE. There are total of 11 switches (24-48 port) distributed in the server room which hosts the fiber core switches and collection switches. Access switches sit in the Sails and Villas. We organized the cabling from end to end, rooms to the server room as well as did labeling, testing, configuration and termination.

Thank you, Almanara Luxury Boutique Hotel and Villas, for allowing us to serve you.

Talinda East Africa serves futuristic, highly efficient and fast-growing businesses in East Africa. We make ICT infrastructure more powerful yet simpler, enabling your business to work better and grow and unlike the industry average, we assure 5-year technology deployment relevance. We achieve this by continuously investing in depth technology skills, a comprehensive service portfolio and a vertically aligned business. We are the most trusted advisor on turnkey ICT infrastructure project and system optimization. We excellently execute on every task and interaction. We have a reliable after sale support system. With the ever fast changing technology, so many options to choose from, when a small mistake can cost a fortune, you are better with Talinda East Africa.

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