Renovating, refurbishing, or opening?
NEXT STEPS
The cheapest time to get this right is before the plasterer starts. Get us on site early and we'll mark up your drawings, scope the technology package and give you a fixed proposal.
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THE ROOM IS FULL. THE MIC IS LIVE. AND NOBODY IS THINKING ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY.
9:40pm . FRIDAY
That is the entire job. We design, install and maintain the network, lighting, audio, vision and security that run Melbourne's pubs, hotels and venues — and we build them to still be running in eight years.
Doors, cleaners, deliveries. Lighting wakes to a daylight scene on the timeclock. Last night's footage has already archived off-site.
8:00am
Lunch. Bistro at conversation volume. Sport on the screens with the audio held to the front bar, when it belongs.
12:00pm
4:00pm
The light drops. Scenes track the sun, so the room warms up through the afternoon without a staff member touching a switch.
Function room splits off. Its own audio source, its own vision feed, its own door access — with no effect on the rest of the venue.
6:30pm
7:30pm
Quiz night, or comedy. A live microphone takes over the room it's in — scores up on the screens, lights down over the stage, — while the beer garden and bistro stay on backgroun music. One panel behind the bar, four buttons.
Last drinks. One press steps the room up, drops the music and brings the lights on — the same way, at the same level, every night.
10:30pm
Lockup. Access control logs who left last and when. Cameras keep recording. The network keeps payment and back-office traffic separated from everything else.
11:30pm
Same again. And the day after. Our first hotel fit-our went in during 2018 and it is still operating as installed.
Tomorrow
YOUR SYSTEMS
KEEP PUB HOURS.
A TRADING DAY
A venue isn't a big house. It opens, it fills, it empties and it locks up — every day, with different staff. Here's what ours are doing while yours are pouring.
06 Access Control
Inner Range Inception. Cellar, office, plant room, back of house and after-hours entry — credentialled, logged and revocable the day someone hands in their keys.
05 CCTV
Milestone XProtect. Coverage designed against your licence conditions, retention you can prove, and footage your duty manager can actually find and export.
04
Video Distribution
Matrix distribution from a single rack to every screen in the building — sport, live events, function content, digital signage — switched from behind the bar rather than from a milk crate.
03
Audio Distribution
Independent zones for front bar, bistro, beer garden, function rooms and amenities. Separate sources, separate levels, staff-proof control.
02
Lighting Automation
Lutron and Crestron. Zoned scenes for trade, function, close and clean, on an astronomical timeclock. Dimming that flatters the room and takes load off the switchboard.
01
Network
Ruckus and Cisco infrastructure, engineered first. Guest Wi-Fi, EFTPOS, back-of-house and cameras on separate networks that cannot interfere with each other. Everything below depends on this.
One contractor, one rack, one number to call.
SCOPE
We deliver the whole technology package for a venue, so there is no gap between the lighting contractor, the AV contractor and the security contractor for a problem to fall into.
Melbourne hotels we've built and still look after.
VENUES
EIGHT YEARS ON, IT IS STILL OPERATING EXACTLY AS INSTALLED.
2018 • EIGHT YEARS IN SERVICE
HARDIMAN'S HOTEL
A complete venue fit-out: audio throughout the pub, video distribution, Lutron lighting automation, access control and a 22-camera CCTV system.
2025
THE KENT HOTEL
2025
The same full scope, built on Crestron — lighting automation, audio and video distribution, access control and a 20-camera CCTV system.
2026 • COMPLETED
THE WILD GEESE
Lutron lighting automation upgrade, delivered around the venue's trading hours.
2026 • IN PROGRESS
MALVERN HOTEL
Currently on site, scoping the technology package as part of the venue's renovation.
We've learned this in trading hours, not in a showroom.
WHY VENUES ARE DIFFERENT
You can't close for a fortnight
Works are staged around trade, with the noisy and disruptive stages taken in the quiet part of the week and the venue handed back operational each night.
Regulators want evidence
Licensing and gaming obligations set the camera positions, the retention period and the export process. We design to the conditions on your licence, and hand over documentation that shows it.
Faults happen at the worst time
Remote monitoring and remote access mean most issues are diagnosed before you've finished describing them, and often fixed without a truck.
Payments and gaming can't share a flat network
Guest Wi-Fi, EFTPOS, gaming machines, back-office and CCTV are segregated by design. It's the first thing we specify and the reason the rest holds together.
Staff turn over constantly
If a system needs training, it's been designed wrong. Controls are labelled in the language of the venue — Trade, Function, Last Drinks, Clean — not in engineering terms.
An engineer answers the phone
No ticket queue, no offshore first line. You get the people who built your venue, and they still have the drawings.