Media Library: Firefly Company Info

Firefly Design Group provides Sales and Construction Phase services to electronic system contractors located around the world. The following three videos show Ron Callis, President of Firefly Design Group explaining in detail how they work with ESC’s and help them run more profitable businesses.

Media Library: Miam Beach Dream Home

Designing and installing a state-of-the-art integrated system in a custom home is a complex and often misunderstood journey, for the homeowner, builder, architect, subcontractors, other trades and even the custom installer. Bridging this gap of understanding is the first step along the path towards the new era of integration.
Firefly Design Group invites you to join us on a long journey as we chronicle a modern home project in a series of articles and videos entitled "Behind the Scenes: Building a Miami Beach Dream Home." The project will include the ultimate in blending of lifestyle-enhancing electronics with the cutting edge in energy efficiency, entertainment and security systems. This two-year odyssey will profile a 5,500-square-foot, green, state-of-the-art home, its owners, and a building team as they research, evaluate and tie together various residential technologies and bring the client’s vision to a successful reality. This project is not bound by budget alone but by the value the installed technology will provide the homeowner and his family. The decisions to include technology and at what level will be made based on fulfilling the homeowner’s vision and meeting the goal of a high-tech LEED-certified home. The house itself is in the design phase, with construction set to begin in June 2011, kicked off by tearing down of an existing home on the project site. Throughout the journey, interviews, photos and videos will be posted with the homeowner, architect, LEED consultant, custom installer, system designer and many others. The series of articles will examine every phase of the project, including the homeowner’s motivation, technology analysis, final product selection, installation and coordination process. The challenges faced by the team and conflicts overcome will be transparently presented for our followers. Our media partners for this project include:    CE Pro (http://www.cepro.com), Electronic House (http://www.electronichouse.com), Connected Home (http://trade.connectedhometechnology.com)

Media Library: New American Home

CEDIA & HTA follow the progress of the 2011 New American Home as it relates to the collaboration of CEDIA members, Architectural Electronics and Firefly Design Group and the design and build partners involved. Firefly Design Group plans has been invited to participate in the filming and production of six videos in total. The outline is as follows:

Phase 1 – Discovery and Design
Video 1 : Meet the team and introduction of project. CEDIA member as the go to professional.
Video 2  : Review discovery and design process.

Phase 2 – Construction
Video 3 : Review low voltage system construction documentation and Rough-In phase.
Video 4 : Review Trim and Final phases.

Phase 3 – Commissioning and Final Results
Video 5: System programming and user experience discussion.
Video 6:  Review final system and homeowner and design team feedback.

Firefly Design Group & CEDIA - Video 1