Inside Largest Elan g! Install Ever

A 10,000-square-foot Chicago home is equipped with an Elan g! system to control a home theater, security system, gym and more from nine touchpanel and two iPads.

By Lisa Montgomery, July 06, 2011

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There’s a lot you can do with a home control system. They are so smart and powerful you could probably automate a dog, if the client wanted you to.

The Elan g! system programmed by AudioVideo Specialists for this 10,000-square-foot suburban Chicago home, which claims to be the biggest Elan g! install ever, epitomizes the extent of a well-executed home control plan.

The house is packed with gear, including 11 flat-panel HDTVs, two of which are 3D TVs with LG 3D Blu-ray players and another that’s a 46-inch weatherproof SunBriteTV. Every TV can access four DirecTV boxes, two Sony 400-disc Blu-ray changers and eight surveillance cameras.

All of the systems can be monitored and managed via the homeowners’ three iPhones, two iPads, 12 Elan remotes, nine in-wall Elan touchpanels and a wireless Elan tablet.

A total of 54 speakers and seven subwoofers, as well as 12 outdoor speakers and two subwoofers throughout the house complement the video. Each listening space can receive music from a rack of centrally located equipment including a dual AM/FM tuner, a three-terabyte hard drive (enough space for 600,000 songs), two iPort tabletop iPod docking stations, Pandora Internet radio, XM Satellite Radio and feeds from the intercom system.

The icing on the A/V cake is a sophisticated home theater that features a 106-inch Screen Innovations motorized screen, a 7.2 surround-sound system and an Optoma video projector.

Massive Rack

The homeowner likes showing off the massive amount of gear required to keep all the home’s subsystems connected.