International AV Consultancy — Custom Controls Designs, You Build

Access our 25 years of home cinema and smart home design expertise from anywhere in the world

Updated June 2026 · Custom Controls · Projects delivered across Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Custom Controls has delivered smart home and home cinema installations in the UK, Dubai, Nigeria, Ghana, Portugal, France and beyond. For international clients where the full Custom Controls travel and installation service is not practical or cost-effective, we offer a design and consultancy service that gives any client — anywhere in the world — access to our expertise, our system designs and our documentation. A local installation company builds to our specification. We support the process remotely. The result is a Custom Controls system, wherever you are.

Our Services

What the Consultancy Service Covers

The consultancy service is available across the full range of systems Custom Controls designs and installs:

Home cinema design. Our cinema room consultancy begins with the space — acoustic modelling of the room, speaker layout, projector and screen specification, seating arrangement and 3D renders showing the finished room. For clients building a cinema room with a local contractor, our design documentation gives the contractor the specific structural requirements (ceiling heights, void dimensions, cable conduit positions, stud wall depths) needed to deliver a room that performs as specified. We have designed cinema rooms that were built and installed by contractors in Dubai, Nigeria, Ghana and France — with the Custom Controls acoustic model underpinning the result in every case. Reference international cinema installations: the Abuja, Nigeria cinema, the Portugal home theater and the Ghana 34.7.15 Trinnov installation.

Smart home and home automation design. Crestron and Lutron systems can be designed by Custom Controls and installed by any certified local contractor. We produce the full system schematic, device schedule, programming files and commissioning documentation — so the local installer does not need the design expertise, only the installation and programming capability. For properties in locations where Custom Controls-level design expertise is not locally available, this is the practical path to a properly specified smart home.

Whole-home audio video design. Multi-room audio video system design with full cable schedules, zone mapping, rack layout drawings and source configuration documentation. We specify the equipment to the component level and source it through our UK supply chain or local distributors as appropriate.

Lighting design. Lutron RadioRA 3 and Crestron lighting designs with full circuit schedules, keypad layouts and scene programming specifications.

Network and WiFi design. Enterprise-grade network and WiFi designs using Cisco Meraki, Ubiquiti UniFi or Ruckus infrastructure, with full cable schedules and access point positioning documentation.

What We Deliver

A completed consultancy design package includes everything a local installer needs to build and commission the system without Custom Controls being on site:

• Full system schematics — signal paths, power distribution, control topology
• Complete cable schedules including cable identification numbering
• Equipment lists to component level with manufacturer part numbers
• Installation and cable termination instructions
• Rack build schematics with power requirements and thermal calculations
• In-room equipment layout drawings with dimensions and fixing positions
• 3D renders for cinema rooms showing the finished space
• Programming files and calibration settings where applicable

Pre-Built Rack Shipping

For clients who want to eliminate the technical complexity from the local installation entirely, Custom Controls can build, commission and test the equipment rack at our UK facility and ship it to site fully assembled and programmed. The local installer connects the rack to the room wiring infrastructure — the most straightforward part of the process — and the system is operational. We have shipped pre-built racks to Dubai, Nigeria, Ghana, Portugal and France. Our international shipping partner provides door-to-door delivery with full insurance to most locations worldwide.

Remote Support During Installation

Throughout the installation process, Custom Controls provides remote support via video call, email and remote access where the system infrastructure allows it. For complex commissioning tasks — Crestron programming, Trinnov calibration, Lutron scene configuration — we schedule remote sessions at the appropriate stage of the installation to guide the local contractor through the process in real time. The combination of detailed documentation and live remote support means that most international consultancy installations proceed without any Custom Controls site visit requirement.

When Full Installation Is the Right Answer

The consultancy service is appropriate when the installation location makes travel impractical, when a competent local contractor is available to execute the build, or when budget constraints make the full Custom Controls travel service uneconomic. When none of those conditions apply — for clients in the UAE, Europe or anywhere accessible — our full design, supply, installation and commissioning service is available internationally. Our most ambitious international installations — the Dubai two-villa Crestron installation, the Dubai IMAX cinema — were fully delivered by Custom Controls teams on site.

If you have a project outside the UK and would like to understand whether consultancy or full installation is the right approach, contact our international projects team.

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