San Francisco Bay Area’s Smart Home Automation Company
Smart Home Technology
A smart home isn't defined by individual devices. It's defined by how everything works together. Instead of juggling multiple remotes and mobile apps, you'll control your home's essential systems from elegant touchscreens, a mobile device, or natural voice control through Josh.ai. Personalized scenes allow multiple systems to respond together with a single tap. For example, pressing "Movie Night" can dim the lights, lower the shades, power on the projector and surround sound system, and start your favorite streaming device automatically. This eliminates the need to manage each system individually.
Built on platforms from trusted brands like Savant and Crestron and complemented by Lutron lighting control, every system is tailored to the way you live and the way your home was designed. Whether you're building a custom residence in Atherton, renovating a home in Hillsborough, or upgrading an established property anywhere throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, we create automation solutions that deliver long-term reliability, straightforward operation, and technology that feels naturally integrated into your home.
Because automation is planned alongside electrical, lighting, and AV infrastructure, our team regularly collaborates with builders, architects, interior designers, and homeowners to ensure every system is integrated from the beginning.
Multi-Room Music
Music should be available wherever life takes you, rather than being limited to a single room. Our whole-home audio systems distribute rich, high-fidelity sound throughout your home from a centralized source, allowing you to enjoy streaming services, personal music libraries, and vinyl collections with exceptional clarity in every space. Using an intuitive mobile app, elegant in-wall keypad, or integrated touchpanel, you can easily select music, adjust the volume, or choose different listening zones throughout your home.
Architectural in-ceiling and in-wall speakers preserve the clean aesthetic of your home while delivering immersive sound indoors and throughout outdoor living areas. Whether you're hosting friends, relaxing by the pool, or enjoying a quiet evening at home, your music becomes part of the experience without visible equipment or unnecessary clutter.
Because your audio system is integrated with your home's automation platform, it works seamlessly alongside lighting, shading, and climate control. Create a custom "Entertain" scene that syncs indoor and outdoor music, adjusts the lighting, and sets the perfect atmosphere before your guests arrive. You can also build personalized routines that automatically adapt your home to your daily schedule, from quiet mornings to relaxing evenings.
Designed for larger residences throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, our custom audio systems combine exceptional performance with effortless control.
Home Theater Installation
Whether you're creating a dedicated cinema or a flexible media room, every detail should contribute to an immersive viewing experience that's effortless to enjoy. Jewell's Quality Home Systems designs custom home theaters and media rooms that combine premium video, expertly engineered surround sound, and user-friendly automation for exceptional performance every time you press play.
Every home theater installation is engineered around the room's dimensions, viewing distances, acoustics, and seating layout to deliver exceptional picture quality and immersive surround sound from every seat. We carefully select displays or projection systems, high-performance speakers, and audio-video components that work together to create a truly cinematic experience. Thoughtful acoustic planning ensures every movie, sporting event, concert, or game is experienced with stunning visuals and lifelike sound.
Integrated automation brings everything together with a single command. Tap a "Movie Night" scene to lower the shades, dim the lights, adjust the climate for optimal comfort, power on the display, and activate the surround sound system without searching for multiple remotes. Built on premium control platforms like Savant and Crestron, our home theater systems become a natural extension of your whole-home automation system for homes throughout Woodside, Portola Valley, and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Smart Home Security Systems
Security is most effective when every layer of protection works together. Our smart home security systems integrate surveillance cameras, alarms, access control, lighting, and automation into one centralized platform, giving you greater awareness and control whether you're at home or away.
Monitor cameras, arm or disarm your system, unlock doors or gates for trusted visitors, and receive intelligent notifications from a single interface on your smartphone, tablet, or dedicated touchpanel. Whether you're traveling, at work, or simply away for the afternoon, secure remote access lets you check live camera feeds, manage entry points, verify your home's status, and respond to activity from virtually anywhere. Instead of managing separate systems, you'll have one streamlined solution that keeps your entire property connected, accessible, and protected.
Because your security system is part of your home's broader automation platform, it can respond intelligently to everyday activity. Lights can illuminate when motion is detected, surveillance cameras can trigger recording based on specific events, and customized scenes can secure your property with a single command before you leave or turn in for the night. Designed for larger homes across the San Francisco Bay Area, our integrated security solutions provide dependable protection while fitting naturally into the way you live.
Surveillance Camera Systems
Surveillance becomes even more valuable when it's connected to the rest of your smart home. Rather than functioning as a standalone camera system, professionally integrated surveillance provides real-time awareness while working seamlessly with your lighting, security, access control, and automation platform to help protect your property.
Jewell's Quality Home Systems designs surveillance solutions using professional-grade cameras that deliver crisp, high-resolution video with intelligent analytics to distinguish between people, vehicles, and other activity. Whether you're checking in on your home while traveling or reviewing recorded footage after an event, secure remote access allows you to monitor your property from virtually anywhere.
From hillside estates in Hillsborough and Woodside to larger properties throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, professionally designed surveillance provides dependable coverage for multiple entry points, detached structures, gates, and expansive outdoor living spaces.
As part of a whole-home automation system, your cameras can do more than simply record video. Motion detected at an entry point can activate exterior lighting, send targeted notifications, trigger recording, or work alongside your access control and security system to provide a faster, more informed response. Designed for larger homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Peninsula communities, our integrated surveillance systems deliver dependable visibility while becoming another intelligent layer within your connected home.
Home Networking & Wi-Fi
Every smart home depends on a reliable network. From lighting control and surveillance cameras to whole-home audio, home theaters, climate control, and mobile devices, every connected technology relies on a fast, stable foundation to perform as intended. That's why professionally designed networking is one of the most important components of a successful automation system.
Jewell's Quality Home Systems designs enterprise-grade home networking and Wi-Fi systems that provide consistent coverage throughout larger residences, guest houses, outdoor living areas, and entertainment spaces. By strategically placing wireless access points and optimizing network performance, we eliminate dead zones while supporting the growing number of connected devices found in today's luxury homes.
A robust network doesn't simply improve internet speeds. It ensures your automation platform responds quickly, security cameras stream reliably, 4K content plays without interruption, and video calls, cloud-based applications, and remote work remain dependable throughout the home. Reliable connectivity supports everything from productive workdays to family movie nights and everyday smart home control.
For larger homes across Los Altos Hills, Atherton, and the San Francisco Bay Area, we design networking infrastructure that delivers the performance, reliability, and scalability that modern connected homes demand.