This stunning home features Italian-inspired architecture and five stories of living space located in the tranquil neighborhood of Loch Lloyd. With a cozy home theater, impressive wine cellar, indoor golf simulator, and basketball court, providing a centralized home automation system for each of these unique features was no small task.
Crestron Home provides a secure home automation solution and a consistent user experience that the homeowners can trust. Whether from a sleek Crestron touch screen on the wall or using the Crestron Home app on their personal device, control of the home is available from anywhere.
THE CHALLENGE
As the CEO of Fishtech Group, Gary Fish has long-trusted Crestron technology to help operations run smoothly for the cybersecurity company. When evaluating home automation offerings, his standards for selecting a secure and reliable solution remained the same. Equally as important would be finding a solution that could bring control for each of his homes into one pane of glass, allowing him to monitor and view them on-the-go from his phone.
THE SOLUTION
Andy Jones, Principal at Domotek worked with Fish to unite technology control throughout the residence under the Crestron Home® platform. Crestron Home allows Fish and his wife to easily check the thermostats, alter the lighting levels, open garage doors, and select various entertainment features with just the press of a button.
THE TECHNOLOGY
Crestron Home provides a consistency of the user experience, so the homeowners and their guests can control similar functions from room to room. Whether from a sleek Crestron touch screen on the wall or using the Crestron Home app on their personal device, control of the home is consistent and available from anywhere. The homeowners can confirm that the doors are locked and lights are off after they leave for the day, providing added peace of mind. Crestron TSR Remotes deliver another point of control for entertaining in a variety of spaces including a media room and a home theater. A focal point of the home’s entertainment offerings is an inviting winetasting space with seating and a wrap-around cellar that is on full display behind the glass walls. A Horizon® Keypad simplifies lighting control in the room with buttons for several of pre-programmed scenes that fit any mood. Climate control is important throughout the home, but it was especially important in the wine cellar where a Horizon Thermostat regulates temperatures to preserve the wine until it is selected to pair with dinner or a night spent with friends.
The pandemic opened the doors for everyone to adjust to working from home and Fish needed a residential solution that would deliver the same conferencing quality he was accustomed to in the Fishtech office. The Tabletop Conference Device for Crestron Home® OS provides an enterprise-grade audio experience for meetings in the home office while doubling as another Crestron Home interface for whole-house control. With a simple scene selection, the lighting intensity and shades can adjust to provide the perfect lighting for an afternoon call.
RESULTS
Crestron Home provides a secure home automation solution and a consistent user experience that the Fish family can trust. Crestron Home is accessible through the app for the homeowners and consistent throughout the home for their guests to use with no hassle.
Crestron Home takes a classic product and moves it into the new age. Bringing this type of control to the cloud provides users the ability to control their home from anywhere in the world while also giving dealers the power to manage it with the same flexibility, says Jones.
A graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology, Doug has been in the Technology industry since 1976 and actively oversees Fearing’s daily operations. Along with his wife, Lois, and three others, Doug started Fearing’s in a 600 square-foot facility in Portage, Wisconsin. In the 25 years since, the company has grown to over 30 employees with offices in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doug likes to say he’s a “TV Technician with a dream� going back to his history with the family’s original business-Fearing’s TV and Appliance.
Doug values time with family, watersports, hiking, snowshoeing and skiing. In addition to being a devoted member of his church, Doug serves as Board President for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County, Board member of Schools for Haiti and Scripture Chair of the Gideons-Portage camp.
A graduate of MATC, Lois oversees Fearing’s daily book keeping along with various HR responsibilities.
Along with Doug, Lois is deeply connected to community outreach, serving as a Board member and Fundraising Committee Chairperson for Kinship Mentoring of Columbia County. She also serves on the Schools for Haiti Fundraising committee. In addition, Lois’ ongoing passion and commitment to provide care for the elderly comes from her 10-year history of working in a Reedsburg, Wisconsin Nursing home.
Lois enjoys singing, hiking, sunny days on the pontoon, and spending time with her 4 grandchildren.
Ehren drives Fearing’s technology by continually seeking out trends to enhance capabilities while supporting Sales, Engineering and Installation teams. Throughout his years with Fearing’s, Ehren’s talent and vision have joined forces to create a wide variety of projects and strategic solutions that exceed expectation.
Ehren loves music, family time, movies, nature, sustainability efforts and electric vehicles.
With 10 years with Fearing’s and over twice that long in the industry, Ben continues to lead, coordinate, and develop the Commercial AV team.
By consistently delivering an outstanding experience and outcome, Ben contributes to the Fearing’s legacy of long-lasting partnerships that truly make a difference. Whatever the Commercial AV need may be, Ben and team deliver at the highest level.
Ben is an avid fisherman and photographer. He enjoys coaching his sons and other youth.
Chris has been with Fearing’s for 20 years and in the industry for over 2 decades. As a Certified leader in Sales Acceleration and trained in EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems), Chris successfully utilizes his skills to lead the Fearing’s Salesforce. Chris and team are motivated and driven to develop new client partnerships while continuing to reinforce loyal long-term relationships with ongoing Service excellence.
Married for 19 years with 3 children, Chris enjoys skiing, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting, camping and golf. He’s also been actively involved as a Youth Football and Softball coach for his family and others.
