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Case Study 03
Montauk Beach Compound
Main house, guest house, and pool house on a Montauk oceanfront — federated under one network, monitored nightly during the dormant months, and re-commissioned every May before the family arrives.
- Location
- Montauk, NY
- Architect
- Withheld by request
- Scale
- 12,000 sq ft · 3 structures · oceanfront
- Year
- 2021 — 2022
- Status
- Occupied seasonally · under full retainer
The brief
A seasonal home that runs itself in the off-season.
The owners had just completed a new-build oceanfront compound — main residence, guest house, and pool house on a single oceanfront lot — and wanted a single system that ran the three structures as one home but allowed the house manager, staff, and the family members to each see a different view. They spend approximately eight weeks a year at the property; the other forty-four, the compound is empty and unheated.
The previous integrator, on a different Montauk home, had delivered a system that required the homeowner to call support on arrival every year because nothing worked. The ask was simple: when we get out of the car in May, everything works. When we leave in September, we do not think about the house until next year.
The approach
Three structures, one brain, one telemetry feed.
We federated the three structures into a single enterprise-grade network with three privacy domains — family, staff, and house-manager. Each role sees a different dashboard, and each role can only trigger the scenes and view the telemetry appropriate to it. The homeowner sees 'arriving', 'guest bay open', 'cinema' — the house manager sees pump pressure, generator fuel, UPS runtime, network health.
Off-season telemetry is the heart of the installation. Every night at 2am, our operations desk receives a compressed report: temperature in every zone, humidity in every zone, water-leak state, door state, freeze-alarm state, generator battery state, UPS runtime, camera health, and any device that has fallen off the network in the last 24 hours. Any anomaly triggers an escalation tree we wrote with the house manager and the insurance carrier.
Every spring, two weeks before the family arrives, our East End technician performs a physical opening walk: verifies every scene, replaces any battery flagged as low, confirms every camera and microphone is clean, and runs the full automation choreography from cold start. The homeowners have arrived to a working house five springs in a row.
A scene built for the light here
Shades that anticipate the Atlantic, not the calendar.
Hover any marker to see the product, the reasoning, and the engineering that placed it there.
Primary bedroom in a Montauk oceanfront compound with motorized shades lowered to sunset position — hidden pocket mounting, an engraved keypad beside the bed, and a framed view of the Atlantic beyond.
Sixty zones of shade. Three fabrics. A single sunset position synchronized across the primary suite, the great room, and the guest house.
Project: Montauk Beach Compound · Architect: Withheld by request
The result
What we measured.
- 5
Springs in a row the family has arrived to a fully working home.
- 60
Motorized shade zones across three structures, a single scene.
- 365
Nights of remote telemetry. Nothing unseen.
- 3
Privacy domains — family, staff, house manager — cleanly separated.
- < 2 hr
Season-on-island response time, same technician every time.
- 0
Arrival-day support calls in five consecutive seasons.
The family has referred three neighboring Montauk households to our East End program. Our off-season telemetry protocol, refined on this project, is now the default we deliver on every Hamptons installation.
“Every spring, the lights come on, the shades move, the music finds us, and we forget the house has been empty for six months.”
Disciplines deployed
What this project required.
Automation
One intuitive interface for every system in the home — lighting, climate, security, audio, video, shades.
Read the briefShading
Whisper-quiet hidden-pocket shades that manage heat, glare, and privacy without interrupting sightlines.
Read the briefLighting
Tunable, circadian-aligned lighting with recessed linear fixtures that erase shadows and elevate materials.
Read the briefNetwork
Segmented, encrypted, high-density networks engineered for uninterrupted streaming, bulletproof security, and future IoT scale.
Read the briefTheater
Private cinemas engineered to CEDIA RP22 standards — immersive audio, reference-grade projection, bespoke acoustic design.
Read the briefThe MERIDIAN position
Your home is a target. We treat it like one.
The modern luxury home runs 200+ connected devices. Most are secured with nothing but the default password their vendor shipped. We take cybersecurity seriously in a way that residential integrators historically have not — and we do it as a permanent service, not a one-time install.
Read the networking briefZero-trust by default
Every device authenticated at layer 2, every traffic flow firewalled and logged. Four VLANs, no shared broadcast domain, explicit allow-list.
24/7 monitored SOC
An off-site security operations center watches your network every hour of every day. Anomaly detection, DNS reputation, real-person escalation in under 15 minutes.
Audited every quarter
Written compliance report — firmware status, traffic anomalies, capacity planning — reviewed with you every ninety days. Nothing drifts, nothing is assumed.
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