The team at TSP Smart Spaces boosts at-home wellness with a slate of integrated technologies.
Technology is seamlessly integrated into the kitchen.
Picture this: You’ve just arrived at your summer home after a long day’s drive. As dusk settles in, the exterior lights in the yard kick on. Without even opening your car door, shades inside the house lower and a soft, warm light turns on, setting the windows aglow. As you approach the door, a fob in your pocket allows for keyless entry. And once you’re inside, you take a deep breath of fresh, purified, 71-degree air. You haven’t lifted a finger to open up the house after weeks away—and your stress-free vacation is about to begin.
Intuitive panels allow you to control your entire home with a touch of a button.
This is the kind of experience that TSP Smart Spaces (tsp.space) aims to create, whether for monitoring and re-opening secondary homes, or for customizing primary residences. The company offers smart home integration on a highly customizable scale, meaning homeowners can pick and choose which smart home technologies they’d like to install, as well as how they prefer to control them. Smartphone apps, wallmounted buttons and switches and screen interfaces are all fair game. The idea is to deliver an at-home experience that cleaves o any extra mental labor.
TSP technologies can also be integrated into the outdoors.
“Architects and interior designers, they control how your home looks. Smart features can really control how you experience your home—how you feel in your home,” explains Kjerstin Oh, TSP’s marketing director.
At their core, smart home features promote wellness, impacting everything from sleep habits to air quality. Humancentric lighting, for instance, can help regulate circadian rhythm. Lighting technology from Ketra emulates the light of the sun— and corresponds with the light coming from motorized window treatments—to mimic bright morning light and softer evening tones. Throughout the day, light levels in a home change subtly based on the hour, ultimately dimming as night falls.
Similarly, smart home tech can improve indoor air quality, which can have up to five times more pollutants than the outdoors, per the World Health Organization. The Repure Air Puriffer uses a sophisticated filter to capture tiny particles and pollutants in the air. Companies like Awair offer an indoor air quality monitor that tracks humidity, CO2, fine dust and temperature, then delivers the data to your phone. Pair these with smart ventilation like the iWave air purifying filter for an HVAC system, and your home’s air quality (and your health) is boosted.
Convenience plays into smart technology’s wellness benefits, too.
“The convenience of being able to press a button versus having to get up and turn on your lights in your great room to the exact mode that you want them to be on when you’re entertaining? It’s complicated,” explains Aaron Stallings, the company’s director of smart spaces. “With a lot of the large homes that we do, it would take a good amount of time. So just that convenience alone lets you focus on other things, or just kind of breathe.”
Security cameras keep an eye on the property.
It’s all about simplifying your life, adds TSP sales operations manager Nathan Smith, and making it easier to live in your home. For second homes in particular, this simplicity is welcome when it comes to monitoring your home from afar. Having one way to control your home’s security, from cameras and sensors to lighting and locks, eases the mental load of a homeowner who splits their time between properties. Peace of mind is its own form of health benefit.
“We have clients who have multiple homes, and having consistent technology across the board really allows them to go from one to the next seamlessly,” Stallings says. “They know they have similar network security, they know the lighting controls work the same way. It just makes sense.”
Ultimately, smart home technology lets you customize the way you live, says Rhiannon Hayes, TSP’s director of business development. This kind of customization can benefit your wellbeing, or it can be just plain fun.
“We have a client who has a special setting for their home in the evenings that they call ‘romance,’ in which the lights go to a certain level, the blinds close, and their favorite music comes on,” Hayes says.
Roof decks, patios, pool areas, and other types of outdoor living rooms can also integrate smart technology for ease of use. No matter where the technology is installed, however, the benefits are hard to discount.
“The experience of smart home technology is a very di cult thing to photograph, or even very tangibly show,” says Oh. “You have to experience it. And once you have had a good experience with smart home features in your home, it’s very hard to go back.”
