A Guide to Selecting Your ESC Home Management System

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Where to Start?   Two questions usually determine which HMS offering best fits your home:   Is your home being designed by an architect? Are your home's subsystems being designed or engineered by trade-specific firms, e.g. mechanical design firm, custom home theater designer, or security specialist? If you answer "no" to both questions and can be completely flexible in your subsystem choices, your home can probably fit into an economical, pre-packaged S.02 system. With their compact design, the S.02 systems provide the easiest and quickest installation. If you answer "yes" only to the architect question and can be somewhat flexible in your subsystem choices, your home can probably use the S.03 or S.04 reference design. These systems go beyond the S.02 systems by providing additional choices for supported subsystems and control options, and offer additional "electronic architectural" services. These additional services insure that your needs are met as well as the successful integration of all subsystems to your satisfaction. If you answer "yes" to both questions or have specific subsystem requirements, your home probably requires a custom HMS design. Your HMS may require custom designed features to maximize the benefits of your engineered subsystems or to support subsystems that ESC has not yet certified for reliable home management use. If you're looking at the S.02 systems, the primary difference between the S.02.1 and S.02.2 systems is your choice of controlling either an environmental or distributed audio subsystem. The S.02.1 controls environmental, security and lighting; the S.02.2 controls distributed audio, security and lighting. The S.02.3 and S.02.4 control both environmental and distributed audio as well as security and lighting, and finally, the S.02.4 adds control of a home theater to the HMS. The S.01 system is strictly used to coordinate multiple Trane Integrated Zone systems, providing both local and remote management of environmental control via a telephone interface. This system does not provide management of any other subsystem.

 

Services	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
System consultation						•	•	•
Technology consultation								•
Design and consultation								•
Technology project management						•	•	•
Custom subsystem integration								•
On-site system commissioning					•	•	•	•
Feature customization						Limited	Limited	Full
User Controls	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
# of hardwired touchscreens supported		1	1	1	2	3	7	Unlimited
# of hardwired touchscreens included		1 (12")	1 (12")	1 (12")	1 (12")	Homeowner Option*	Homeowner Option*	Homeowner Option*
Wireless touchscreen support								•
Wireless handheld remote support								•
Lighting keypads		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Telephone	•						•	•
Spoken response feedback							•	•
Touchscreen Graphics (click here for explanation)	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
Custom floorplans		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Dormant status flags				•	•	•	•	•
Custom graphics								•
Custom dormant screen								•
Security (click here for explanation)	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
Support for ITI/Regency 4724		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Support for Apex Destiny 6100		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Support for user-specified security panel								•
# of supported zones		16	24	32	32	60	120	Unlimited
# of supported partitions (areas)		1	1	1	1	4	8	Unlimited
Individual control of partitions (areas)						•	•	•
Auxiliary keypad control features				•	•	•	•	•
Graphical floorplan display		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Burglar and fire zone support		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Auxiliary zone support (CO, temp, etc)				•	•	•	•	•
Security event logging		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
# of on-screen security cameras							4	Unlimited
Verbal security status announcements							•	•
Entrance monitoring							•	•
Lighting (click here for explanation)	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
Support for Lutron GRAFIK Eye		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Support for Lutron HomeWorks						•	•	•
Support for LiteTouch						•	•	•
Support for user-specified subsystem								•
Control via living moods or security alarm		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Control via random and vacation modes						•	•	•
Control via theater moods					•		•	•
Random lighting						•	•	•
# of supported auto-lights							8	Unlimited
Environmental (click here for explanation)	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
Support for RCS		•		•	•	•	•	•
Support for Carrier CZ, VVT, TEMP						•	•	•
Support for Trane Comfort Link	•					•	•	•
Support for Trane Tracker Stat							•	•
Support for Siebe Network 8000							•	•
Support for Alerton Protalk Devices							•	•
Support for user-specified subsystem								•
Graphical floorplan display		•		•	•	•	•	•
Verbal environmental status reports							•	•
# of supported zones	16	4		6	8	12	16	Unlimited
Whole-house mode commands	•	•		•	•	•	•	•
Zone mode commands	•	•		•	•	•	•	•
Mode change via lighting keypads		•		•	•	•	•	•
Temperature adjust via lighting keypads							•	•
Zone status request via lighting keypads							•	•
User schedulable mode changes		•		•	•	•	•	•
Distributed Audio (click here for explanation)	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
Support for Audio Access MRX/PX			•	•	•	•	•	•
Support for Sony CIS-200 Control					•	•	•	•
Support for ADA System Omega							•	•
Support for Intellix AVM Matrix							•	•
Support for user-specified subsystem								•
# of supported zones			6	6	6	12	24	Unlimited
# of supported source components			3	4	6	6	6	Unlimited
Source component synchronization							•	•
Graphical floorplan display			•	•	•	•	•	•
Dynamic user-schedulable audio scenes			•	•	•	•	•	•
Theater (click here for explanation)	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
Graphical user display					•		•	•
# of supported display devices					1		3	Unlimited
# of supported source components					3		5	Unlimited
Source component synchronization					•		•	•
Control of curtains, projector lifts, etc.					•		•	•
Theater mood lighting					•		•	•
Standard theater moods					•		•	•
# of user-defined theater moods					4		21	Unlimited
Living Moods	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
# of user-defined moods		4	4	6	6	8	12	Unlimited
User-schedulable moods		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Convenience Features	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
# of devices via lighting subsystem		4	4	6	6	12	24	Unlimited
# of devices via direct hardwired					8	8	16	Unlimited
User-schedulable activation		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
System-Wide Features	Reference Designs							Custom Design
	S.01	S.02.1	S.02.2	S.02.3	S.02.4	S.03	S.04
Vacation mode	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Set date and time		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Astronomical clock		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Automatic Daylight Savings Time adjust		•	•	•	•	•	•	•
System passcodes	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Uninterruptible Power Supply						•	•	•
Communications surge suppression						•	•	•
Communications optical isolation						•	•	•
Professionally recorded spoken responses							•	•

 

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