The primary task of security cameras are to keep a close eye on a home, property and loved ones. Some cameras, as one homeowner found out, are a better fit for certain installations than others. It wasn’t until after the integration team at Jennings AV had finished pre-wiring the luxury 6,000-square-foot residence for smart technology and installed a dozen security cameras, plus a host of other gear, that the homeowner was considering an upgraded camera system. Thankfully for Jennings AV and the homeowner, a new version of the home’s original camera system had just launched and was available to dealers from Snap One Jennings’s primary supplier of smart-home products.
“He found it difficult to access specific parts of the camera footage to check on things while traveling or to see who had pulled into the driveway, for example,” says Jennings AV Owner Barry Jennings. “It wasn’t exactly as smooth and as easy as he was expecting, and he’d hoped we could find a more user-friendly replacement.”
Jennings AV Uses Snap One Security Cameras to Meet Homeowner Expectations
Snap One’s latest generation of Luma surveillance cameras, the x20 series of security cameras, provide considerably more features like artificial intelligence to discern between vehicles and humans, enhanced detection, notifications, and more options to view live and recorded footage, including automatic video streaming to the home’s Control4 touchpanels and Luma View mobile app.
According to the dealer, all of these new features added up to the right mix of technologies for a client who was feeling somewhat powerless over his home’s surveillance system. So just as the smart-home project was coming to a close, Snap One emphasizes, Jennings AV did a complete redo of the surveillance system.
“We weren’t about to walk away with an unhappy client, and knew that Snap One had our backs with the new-and-improved x20 Luma cameras,” says Jennings.
The proper cabling was already in place for the installation of the new security cameras and a host of other smart systems had been installed and programmed, so swapping the original cameras for the x20 models, which included adding three more cameras, and integrating them with the home’s Control4 automation system was easy, according to Jennings. Further streamlining the process is the Luma x20 cameras integration with Snap One’s remote monitoring platform, OvrC.
“With the owner’s authorization we could configure the settings of each camera and customize controls for the owner on the fly, without having to physically be on the jobsite,” notes Jennings.
Snap One boasts that now that the new camera cameras up and running, the owner never wonders where the dogs are, if the kids are okay or who pulled into the driveway. Snap One says that through the new surveillance system the homeowner knows exactly what’s happening at home, the second it happens. The Luma x20 cameras push instant notifications to his mobile device with options to view images live or as individual snapshots.
Portions of the video where motion was detected are tagged, so the owner can quickly find and review the most important parts of the footage rather than scrolling endlessly through recorded video. The owner can view thumbnails or live video from a single camera, a group of cameras or all 15 Jennings AV-created custom buttons on the Luma View mobile app to streamline the process.
The global electronics and distribution company adds the next-gen features of the Luma x20 security cameras were central to the success of this smart-home project. Because of the easy access to Snap One’s lineup of interoperable smart-home solutions, Jennings AV as able to turn the project around within just a few days. Once the system was installed, the owner had a surveillance system that provided the level of protection and usability he expected, and just as important, Snap One stresses, the surveillance system operated seamlessly with the home’s other smart systems.
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