Below are some design considerations for monitoring, controlling, and the handsfree automation of a connected home. These have been developed through the course of multiple installations, but you may want to change them to make them more appropriate to your situation.
You will want to get a copy of the blueprints and use them at the job site to mark down where all devices, components, and sensors are located. Later, back at your office, you can Create the Floor Area Image and enter the information from the blueprints into your project using the Ubiquity™ Design Module. Finally, back at your customer's house, you can save the project to the Domain Controller.
After the house has been roughed in and during the addition of the rough plumbing and wiring, take a tour of the house and identify on the blue prints where all sensors need to be placed. Also, identify on the blue prints the location where Shubs can be placed. The number of Shubs per location may not be know at this time as the installer may decide to pull the sensor wires to a different location than you originally thought.
Install all of the wires by referring to the blue prints for the location of the sensors and then pulling the wires from that location to the most accessible Shub. You may want to use the wire naming convention (see above).
Install the sensors and Shubs – recording the actual connections made to each Shub and do a walk test of the Shub LEDs.
Using the Ubiquity™ Design Module, create the Floor Plan View of the house. You may want to draw the rooms in the order in which they are numbered so that the application's auto numbering feature works in your favor. Then, add the controllers and sensors to the floor plan – including the “Controlled by (and wired to)” information collected during the installation process.
Transfer the configuration to the Domain 3000 and install it in the house.