We are fortunate to live in a world of powered conveniences. Things we take for granted, like refrigerators, washing machines, and dryers were a revolution that changed home life decades ago.

Another powered convenience is quietly changing the way homes, stores, restaurants, offices, and other commercial establishments are managed – motorized shades. It may not be the revolution of powered appliances, but with power comes automation. And automation and smart control unleash imaginative new ways of doing things. 

Read on to learn more about how motorized shade installations can benefit homes and commercial properties in St. Louis, MO.

As a building owner, you want to create a balance between having safe, comfortable, and attractive buildings for tenants and lowered operating costs. In some cases, large expenses like property taxes are largely out of your hands. But other significant operating costs like utilities can be addressed. For example, high insurance costs might be mitigated by modernizing a building’s safety and security systems.

You may be considering if the cost of installing or modernizing building automation systems makes sense for your St. Louis, MO properties. If you think about the potential energy efficiencies of modern control solutions for lighting and HVAC, the additional safety from newer security, and adding attractive features like digital signage, you might start finding that you can improve your product in the market, reduce costs, and thoroughly justify the investment. Let's explore further below.

To paraphrase a well-known commercial, what's in your building? Are you running it as efficiently as possible? If you are an owner of commercial property, do your tenants feel the building has the amenities needed? If it's your building, does your staff feel comfortable and safe? Is it an easy place to do business, or is it a challenging environment?

Commercial lighting control and automation can solve many ills in a property. No, it can't answer all of them. But smart control and automation of systems like lighting, HVAC, security, access, and AV systems can go a long way to ensuring people feel comfortable, productive, and safe in their environment.

Keep reading below to see how commercial lighting control and automation adds value to your Chesterfield, MO properties.

Nothing is worse than having technology problems during an important meeting. What is the best way to ensure that your meeting’s run smoothly? Invest in a technology infrastructure that is simple to control and automate. Crestron offers top of the line conference room solutions guaranteed to take your business to the next level. Give stellar presentations with Crestron AirMedia, video call colleagues from across the world, and handle room scheduling with ease all with your Crestron system. Continue reading below to learn why a Crestron conference room system will help your St. Louis business thrive.

Granted, not much good comes out of pandemics or other catastrophes like war. If there is a silver lining at all, it’s that sometimes dire need accelerates the application of technology to fill a void. With so many people forced to work for home for social distancing, teleconferencing technology has proven to be a huge aid in facilitating collaboration and continuing knowledge work without a significant hit to productivity.

If you think about education, it has been particularly hard hit in the past few months. While education has significantly ramped up the use of technology over the past 20 years, much learning and activity still relies on more traditional in-person interaction. In the past few months, schools in St. Louis and across Missouri have been forced to shift to remote learning and scrambled to implement the right processes to manage it.

Fortunately, the technology for teleconferencing systems and remote collaboration is now quite mature and has come down the affordability cost curve dramatically. Facebook recently announced a rethinking of their workforce, where they might allow half of it or more to work remotely from home. In the same vein, schools can think about innovative ways of using teleconferencing to supplement existing learning programs and better respond to extreme situations, whether it's a pandemic or a severe weather event.

Keep reading to learn how.