Smart Window Dressings & Automated Shading Control
Smart Home Window Dressings in the South East: London, Oxfordshire and the Home Counties
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Enhancing Comfort, Privacy & Energy Efficiency with Intelligent Home Automation
In a modern smart home, window dressings are no longer just decorative. As part of a fully integrated Building Management System (BMS), automated blinds and curtains play a vital role in privacy control, solar gain management, and overall energy efficiency.
At AVINU, we design and deliver intelligent shading solutions using the KNX standard, ensuring seamless control, elegant operation, and long-term reliability.
Contact Us To Find Out More About Our Smart Window Dressing Solutions And What They Can Do For You And Your Project
Automated Privacy Control
Your home should feel private, secure, and comfortable—day or night.
Automated window dressings allow you to:
- Instantly adjust blinds and curtains from wall switches, apps, or voice control
- Create privacy routines that activate automatically at dusk
- Prevent glare and maintain comfort in living spaces
- Integrate shading with lighting scenes for balanced ambience
By linking window dressings directly to your smart home system, privacy moves from a manual task to an effortless part of everyday life.
Solar Gain Control: Year-Round Energy Benefits
One of the most significant advantages of smart shading lies in its ability to manage solar gain. This is essential for both comfort and sustainability, and it can reduce the reliance on heating and cooling systems throughout the year.
Summer: Reduce Heat & Cooling Demand
Automated blinds can track the sun’s position and react dynamically, ensuring the home stays cool:
- Shades lower automatically to create cooler zones without relying on air-conditioning
- Reduces peak temperatures in rooms exposed to direct sunlight
- Improves comfort for bedrooms, living spaces and home offices
- Helps HVAC systems run more efficiently, cutting energy consumption
By preventing overheating before it begins, smart shading supports reduced AC usage and a more sustainable home.
Winter: Harness Free Solar Energy
During colder months, window dressings can operate intelligently to increase passive heat gain:
- Blinds open as the sun moves around the property to bring natural warmth indoors
- Reduces the load on the heating system throughout the day
- Maximises energy absorption from the sun for improved efficiency
- Maintains comfort while lowering heating costs
This natural warmth—captured through intelligent automation—supports a more efficient and comfortable home environment.
Integrated with Your Smart Home BMS
As KNX specialists, we ensure your blinds and curtains are not standalone products, but an integral part of a wider Building Management System, working harmoniously with:
- Intelligent lighting
- Heating & cooling systems
- Occupancy and light sensors
- Security and privacy routines
- Whole-home automation scenes
This creates a single, unified platform where shading, lighting, climate, and lifestyle technologies work together to enhance comfort, energy performance, and convenience.
Why Choose AVINU for Smart Window Dressing Integration?
- 16 years of experience in high-end smart home integration
- Specialists in KNX-based BMS design
- Award-winning solutions recognised at the Smart Building Awards 2025
- Tailored designs for heritage, contemporary, and luxury properties
- Seamless integration of blinds, curtains, and façade shading systems
Whether you need automated blinds, motorised curtains, or full solar shading control, we ensure your home achieves the perfect blend of comfort, style, and intelligent performance.
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We were introduced to AVINU through one of the manufacturers they represent. From the initial meeting to delivery of the project, both Darryl and Michael proved to be super professional, helpful and well informed about all aspects of home automation and Audio Visual. Their installers were also second to none. Extremely competent and super helpful.
AVINU Your KNX Specialist
Established in 2009 our team have designed and delivered many wonderful intelligent homes. Our ethos is always centred around our client’s lifestyles and supporting them and there project members with clarity over robust, elegant ease of control. Having won awards for our service, we pride ourselves being a critical team member upholding our clients desires and objectives, and we have fostered valued relationships throughout the KNX industry.
Our journey with you starts with an informal review to support you with clarity over your options, with a view to design and deliver an intelligent home ready for you on completion date and beyond.
What a great team. I am totally not tech savvy, so AVINU are great at talking me through the ‘experience’ of the smart home. Everything seems simple and logical, and we are particularly excited to have everything run on KnX. The flexibility and options that come with it are endless, and AVINU know exactly how to narrow down the options to make it clear and relevant.