Smart homes in Vail Valley.
A mountain second home is empty far more than it is occupied, and that single fact should drive the whole design. The catastrophic failure here is not a break-in — it is a pipe freezing in February while nobody is in the building, and the first anyone knows about it is water running down a staircase.
So the system's first job is protection: temperature everywhere that matters, water where it should never be, and heat that cannot silently fail. Everything else — the lighting, the arrival routine, the guest access — is built on top of that.
What is different about Vail Valley
- Freeze protection first
- Temperature sensing in every vulnerable space, leak detection at every wet wall, and an automatic water shutoff. Loss of heat escalates immediately, at any hour, to whoever is closest.
- Arriving to a warm house
- The house warms, the snowmelt runs, the lights come up and the water is turned back on ahead of you — triggered by the calendar or by the drive up, not by remembering an app at the airport.
- Caretakers, cleaners and rental guests
- Time-boxed access codes that expire on their own, with a record of every entry. Turnover stops depending on a key under a rock.
- Snow load and heavy weather
- Roof and gutter heat-trace monitored rather than assumed, and cameras sited and housed to keep working through a storm cycle.
Also serving nearby
- Beaver Creek
- Avon
- Edwards
- Eagle
- Minturn
- Wolcott
- Bachelor Gulch
Vail Valley questions
What happens if the heat fails while nobody is at the house?
That is the failure the system is designed around. Temperature is monitored in every space that can freeze, and a drop toward the danger threshold escalates straight away rather than waiting for a daily summary. Paired with leak sensing and an automatic water shutoff, a heating failure becomes a phone call instead of a flood.
Can cleaners and rental guests get in without giving them permanent access?
Yes. Access is issued as codes that are valid for a defined window and expire by themselves, so nothing has to be revoked manually. Every entry is logged, so you can see who came and when without watching cameras.
Designing a smart home in Vail Valley?
Bring us the apps that will not talk to each other, the cameras you do not trust, and the routines that almost work. We will design the rest around how you actually live.