THE LAB HOME

An ordinary 2006 house, extraordinarily smart

If you are going to trust an adviser with your home, you are entitled to ask what that adviser runs in his own. Our answer stands in Sint Pancras: our own family house, converted step by step into a full living laboratory. Not a showroom with perfect arrangements, but a family home where everything genuinely has to work. Every single day.

18zones
5levels
1200+data points
35+automations
57light points
100%local control
Figures taken straight from the system: no marketing rounding, simply today's counter.

The system, live

Our own dashboard on an ordinary weekday evening: every zone across five levels, from The Thinkubator to the shed. Not a demo rig, just home.

The Lab Home dashboard showing all zones and summaries
Screenshot of our own dashboard, 14 July at 22:25. Lighting, climate, security, media and energy on one screen, fully local.
The Lab Home energy dashboard with per-appliance consumption and energy distribution
The energy side of the same system: consumption per appliance and the balance with the grid, tracked day by day. On 14 July, 57% of the electricity used was low-carbon.
The Lab Home mobile app with every zone
The overview: every zone and summary.
The mobile energy view of the Lab Home
Energy in your hand: distribution and consumption.
Per-room light control in the mobile app
Fifty-seven light points, controlled per room.

What runs here, every day

A selection of what the house manages on its own, and therefore of what you can expect when we set to work for you.

Light that thinks along

Fifty-seven light points arranged into scenes per room and per moment. Motion and presence sensors on the stairs, in the hallways and in the bathrooms: light where you are, darkness where you are not, and dimmed at night instead of blinding.

Climate driven by air quality

The boiler is controlled through an open interface, the ventilation runs cycles based on CO₂ and humidity, and as soon as particulate matter crosses a threshold, air purification switches on by itself. Fresh air here is not a feeling but a measurement.

Water under supervision

Leak sensors at the washing machine, the bathrooms, the meter cupboard and the shed. One drop in the wrong place triggers a notification, and the main valve can close automatically. Small sensor, enormous difference.

Energy made visible

A smart energy meter measures what actually happens, per circuit. Consumption history per zone and per appliance, logged and visualised: the foundation under any sensible energy advice.

Security without the cloud

Four cameras around and inside the house, with footage that stays local. Door and window sensors, presence simulation while we are away, and notifications that go to us alone, not to a server on the other side of the world.

The details that make it

The washing machine reports when it is done. The robot vacuum knows the family's schedule. The awning retracts itself in strong wind. Dozens of small automations you cannot imagine living without after a week.

Six systems, one house

Under one calm dashboard, six disciplines run together. These are the real figures from our Lab Home, summarised on each panel. Click to enlarge.

Everything we would install in your home has first run here for months, with a family that must not notice it at all. That is a stricter test than any laboratory. Why a lab home
BY APPOINTMENT

Come and experience it

The Lab Home is our family home, so we receive visitors by appointment only, after a first introduction. You will not find a demo rack, but technology as it should be: invisible, silent and self-evident.

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The street and front entry of the Lab Home in Sint Pancras
An ordinary street in Sint Pancras. Behind this front door runs everything you see on this page.