Savant Home Automation Dealer & Installer

Savant Home Automation for the UK’s Finest Properties

Custom Controls are Savant dealers and installers, delivering enterprise-grade control systems for luxury residential properties across London, Cheshire, Dubai and the Alps. Savant integrates lighting, blinds, climate, audio/video, security and access control through a unified interface — touchscreens, wall keypads, mobile apps and voice control — built for homes where design, reliability and integration are non-negotiable.

The platform suits design-led homes in particular, where the look of every keypad and screen matters as much as what it controls. We specify it alongside Crestron and Control4, so the recommendation for each project comes from the brief rather than a preference for one brand. Where Savant is the right answer, we design, install and support it to exactly the same standard as every other system we deliver.

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Mood Lighting

Security & CCTV

Wifi & Networks

Savant Control Systems

Savant is a premium control platform designed for high-end residential automation. The system integrates lighting, blinds, climate, audio/video, security and access control through a unified control interface — touchscreens, wall keypads, mobile apps and voice control. Savant systems are installed in luxury homes where design, reliability and integration are non-negotiable.

Installation & Integration

We manage full system design, specification, installation and commissioning. This includes control architecture design, network planning, device programming, user interface design and staff training. Savant integrates with Lutron lighting, Kaleidescape media servers, audio systems and third-party devices via open protocols — so the technology serving each room communicates as one system rather than several disconnected ones.

Every project starts with a survey and a written specification that sets out what each room will do, which devices control it and how the equipment rack, cabling and network will be built. Programming is completed and tested before handover, with every scene, schedule and interface walked through with the household rather than left to a manual. The same engineers who design and install the system look after it afterwards, so the knowledge of how your home is set up stays with the people supporting it.

Savant Interfaces — App, Remote, Touch Panels and Keypads

Savant is known for the quality of its user interfaces, and choosing the right mix of them is a large part of the design stage. The Savant app runs on iOS and Android, the Savant Pro Remote brings entertainment, lighting and climate into one handheld with built-in voice control, and Savant Home for Apple TV puts the core features on the television itself. In-wall and table-top touch panels in 5″ and 8″ sizes add fixed control points, with an intercom function for room-to-room communication and whole-home paging. Keypads come from the Metropolitan, Echo and Ascend ranges, in wired and wireless versions, and the Metropolitan buttons can be reconfigured by the homeowner through the app.

We plan interfaces room by room rather than putting a touch panel on every wall. A principal bedroom might need a single keypad by the door and one by the bed, a family kitchen a table-top panel and the app, and a cinema a Pro Remote and nothing else on show. The engraving, finish and button layout on every keypad is agreed with the client, and the interior designer where there is one, before anything is ordered.

Designed Around the Network

Savant runs on Cat6 structured cabling, with its control modules communicating over Ethernet back to a Savant host in the equipment rack. That makes the network the foundation of the whole system, so we design and install it ourselves as part of the project rather than leaving it to a separate contractor. Managed PoE switching, properly placed wireless access points and a clear separation between control, entertainment and guest traffic mean that scenes fire instantly and the app never waits for a response. It is the same approach we take on every home network installation, and it is the single biggest factor in how reliable a Savant system feels day to day.

Savant, Crestron or Control4?

We install all three platforms, so the choice is made on the property and the brief. Savant excels in design-focused luxury spaces where the interface is part of the interior. Control4 is typically the right answer for a four-to-six-bedroom home that wants unified lighting, AV, climate and security at an accessible price point. Once a home exceeds around 8,000 sq ft, spans several buildings or needs unusual integrations such as distributed video, large HVAC zones, pools, gates or motorised skylights, Crestron becomes the stronger specification. We explain the trade-offs openly at the first meeting and put the reasoning in writing with the proposal.

Case Study: Enterprise-Grade Whole-Home Control, Primrose Hill

This four-floor Primrose Hill townhouse runs on Crestron rather than Savant, but it’s the clearest illustration we have of what a genuinely unified control system delivers at this level — 8 audio zones and 4 video zones drawing from a single centralised rack rather than equipment scattered room to room, all reachable from one interface. Every video zone reaches the same centralised sources; audio streams from a digital media server covering the client’s own collection alongside international radio for an internationally connected family.

One button press joins rooms together or separates them again, a formal living room adds a retractable cinema screen for evening use, and a lower-ground family room runs its own independent system — the entire property controlled from a single interface, exactly the standard we bring to Savant installations. Read the full case study →

Support & Maintenance

All Savant installations are commissioned to standard and handed over with full documentation and training. We provide ongoing technical support, software updates and system maintenance to ensure reliability and performance for as long as the system is in use — not just through the warranty period.

Many of our Savant enquiries come from homeowners whose original installer is no longer available, or whose system was never quite finished. We audit what is installed, document it properly, fix faults at their cause and bring the software and programming up to date, then take over ongoing support. Changes to scenes, schedules and keypad layouts are handled remotely wherever possible, so small adjustments never need to wait for a site visit.

Thinking of Upgrading to a Modern Platform?

If your Savant system is ageing or you’re planning an expansion beyond your current platform’s capabilities, migrating to Crestron Home is a viable upgrade path. Your existing infrastructure stays in place — only the equipment and control logic change. We’ve successfully migrated Savant systems to Crestron without requiring infrastructure rewires. Read our complete migration guide covering what stays, what changes, Lutron integration options, and timelines.

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