Smart Home Packages for Luxury Home Builders in Nevada
Buyers ask what technology comes with the home, and the answer changes with every vendor and every scope. At Sierra Integrated Systems, we offer smart home packages for builders: a short set with defined upgrade paths. Your team gets simple selections and a steady schedule, and your buyers move into a finished home.
More than 20 years designing and installing custom home technology across Northern Nevada. Lutron Black Diamond dealer.
Technology Packages for New Homes, Built Around Your Schedule
We build these packages for custom builders from Reno and Carson City, Nevada, to Lake Tahoe and Truckee, California. Each package has a defined scope. We plan it with your electrician and schedule it with your superintendent, so a choice made at contract becomes a plan your crew can follow. Technology that goes in from the start also helps a home show as complete, which supports its value and buyer satisfaction.
Sierra Integrated Systems is a Reno-based electrical contractor and low-voltage integrator. We plan the lighting loads and wiring together, and we program the system to match. The packages cover lighting control, shades, audio and video, surveillance cameras, and the network behind them, all built around Control4 automation and Lutron lighting and shades. You can offer home automation packages for builders without rewriting the scope for every home.
Good, Better, Best: A Package Structure Buyers Can Follow
Buyers decide faster when they see what each step adds. We offer our new construction smart home packages in three tiers, and each tier includes everything in the one before it.
Good
Best fit: Spec and model homes
Structured wiring, an equipment closet layout, a network foundation with Wi-Fi access point locations drawn from the floor plan, lighting load planning ready for Lutron, TV and speaker prewire, surveillance camera prewire, and Control4-ready infrastructure
Better
Best fit: Semi-custom homes where buyers want daily convenience from move-in
Everything in Good, plus network equipment and access points sized to the home, Lutron lighting control with scenes, motorized shades on the main windows, multi-room audio in the primary living areas, and Control4 programming for those systems
Best
Best fit: Buyers who want the full system from day one
Everything in Better, plus whole-home Control4 integration, integrated surveillance cameras, extended Wi-Fi coverage across outdoor living areas, Ketra or architectural lighting where the design calls for it, a media room or home theater, and shades throughout
The right tier depends on the floor plan, the buyer, and how early we see the drawings. We confirm package contents against your plans before anything goes in front of buyers.
Spec Home Technology Packages That Repeat Across Your Homes
The Good tier does its best work in spec and model homes. Kiley Ranch in Sparks has several builders active at once, and Somersett in Reno still delivers new homes. In communities like these, a different technology scope on every lot adds work for your team.
We anchor the package on the Good tier. A typical spec scope might include:
- Structured wiring to the great room, kitchen, and every bedroom, home-run to one equipment closet
- Two or more Wi-Fi access point locations, cabled during framing
- TV and speaker prewire in the great room and primary suite
- Camera prewire at the front door and garage
The standards repeat from home to home, so your crew learns the scope once. A buyer can add lighting control, motorized shades, or audio later without opening walls.
Semi-Custom Home Technology Packages With Room for Buyer Choices
Semi-custom homes call for more flexibility. In communities like ArrowCreek, where homes are largely custom or semi-custom on large lots, buyers want a say but not a blank page. We start with the Better tier and offer a short, fixed menu of Best tier items on top.
A typical semi-custom scope sheet might offer:
- Lutron lighting control scenes for the great room and the primary suite
- Motorized shades on the largest windows
- Multi-room audio in the kitchen, great room, and patio
- Media room rough-in for a basement or bonus room
We write each option into a scope sheet tied to the floor plan. Your sales team presents a few defined choices instead of a catalog of products.
Structured Wiring and Network Foundations for New Construction
Every tier rests on the same foundation. Framing details get settled long before a buyer picks a keypad, and the wiring has to keep pace. In every tier, we plan structured wiring, the equipment closet, and conduit pathways during framing, alongside your electrician.
We handle the electrical services and the low-voltage wiring in the same plan. Your electrician and our team work from one set of drawings, so rough-in has fewer conflicts.
Surveillance Camera and Wi-Fi Coverage Options in Every Package
With the wiring settled, buyers usually turn to cameras and Wi-Fi. They want to check the house from their phone, and they want a Wi-Fi signal that reaches the patio. We build both into the tiers.
Security and surveillance cameras are a decision best made before drywall. We prewire camera and video doorbell locations in every tier. In the Best tier, we integrate the cameras with Control4, and homeowners check them in the same app that runs the lights and shades. For Wi-Fi, the Good tier draws access point locations from the floor plan. Better sizes the equipment to the home, and Best extends coverage across outdoor living areas. The low-voltage cabling is already in the walls, so a buyer who adds cameras or coverage after move-in needs no new wall openings.
Upgrade Paths From Home Automation to Lighting and Entertainment
With the foundation in place, a buyer can keep adding without a redesign. The three paths below show how.
Plenty of buyers want automation but decide on it after they have lived in the house for a while. With the wiring already in the walls, they can add smart home automation later, and your crew does not reopen drywall. We program scenes around how the household uses each room. One touch can set the lights, shades, and music for the evening.
We group lighting loads early so scenes can be added later. At framing, we plan shade power and pockets so motorized shades fit each window the way the architect drew it. Late shade decisions add cost to a new build, so we ask for them early. Sierra is a Lutron Black Diamond dealer, so one team handles both the lighting and the shades, and you do not coordinate a second vendor at rough-in.
Speakers are hard to add once the walls close, so multi-room audio and video starts with speaker wiring and TV blocking at framing. The top step is a home theater or media room. We plan it around the room’s layout, lighting, and shades, so one control runs everything.
Most Popular Homeowner Upgrades
Across those upgrade paths, buyers tend to choose these first:
- Motorized Lutron shades in the main living areas and the primary suite, for sunlight control and privacy
- Lighting scenes for dinner and for bedtime
- Multi-room audio through the kitchen, great room, and patio
- Surveillance cameras and video doorbells in the same app as the rest of the home
- A media room or home theater for movies and games
Fewer Callbacks, Simpler Selections, and Post-Close Support for Your Team
Support matters after closing too. A smart home that works on closing day still generates calls if nobody explains it, and those calls land on the builder. We walk homeowners through their systems at handoff and stay their point of contact afterward. Questions about lighting and shades come to us.
A buyer who gets a walkthrough and one number to call is less likely to feel lost in the new home. A builder’s reputation after closing often rests on that first month. Three tiers and written scope sheets also keep selections simple and change orders organized.
Seasonal homes need a little more. Many mountain homes in Truckee and around Lake Tahoe sit empty for part of the year. For those, we offer service plans with remote system management and priority response, so the house works when the family arrives.
How We Plan Technology Alongside Your Build
Early planning makes all of this easier. Our process runs from consultation through design, engineering, installation, and support, and we adapt it to a builder’s schedule.
Around Lake Tahoe, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency reviews new construction. On the Nevada side, in places like Incline Village and Crystal Bay, a new home on a vacant lot also needs a Washoe County building allocation, and the county issues it only when the owner is ready to submit a complete permit application. Plan review comes early, so we ask to join then.
Plan Review and Consultation
We review your plans and talk through your build schedule, your buyers, and which package tier fits each home. Builders who want a reference for those talks can use our technology guide for custom builders.
Design and Engineering
We prepare drawings, device locations, and scope sheets your electrician and framers can follow, including the lighting design.
Rough-In During Framing
We coordinate directly with your superintendent, project manager, and electrician. Wiring, closets, and pathways go in before insulation and drywall, which is the idea behind integrating smart home technology from the ground up.
Trim, Commissioning, and Handoff
We schedule trim around cabinetry and paint, commission the systems, and close out punch items. Then we orient the homeowner.
We work with builders across Northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe region, including Reno, Carson City, Incline Village, Crystal Bay, Tahoe City, and Truckee.
Questions Builders Ask About Our Smart Home Packages
As early as your plans allow, ideally before framing starts. That is when we plan wiring and shade pockets. Around Lake Tahoe, permitting can shape the start date, and an early plan review gives us time to scope the package.
We coordinate directly with your superintendent, project manager, and electrician. We handle both electrical and low-voltage work, so lighting loads and wiring pathways share one set of drawings. Written scope sheets define who does what at rough-in and trim.
Yes. Each tier builds on the one before it, so a buyer can move up with a documented change. We keep upgrade options in the same scope sheets, which keeps change orders organized for your team.
We do. We walk homeowners through their systems at handoff and stay their contact for questions, adjustments, and service. Your team is not the help desk.
Yes. We serve builders in Reno and Carson City, Nevada, in Truckee and Tahoe City, California, and around Lake Tahoe, with the same three tiers in each.
We pair the package with remote system management through a service plan. Lighting, shades, and cameras can be checked and adjusted from anywhere, and the house is ready when the owners arrive.
Partner With Sierra on Your Next Build in Reno or Around Lake Tahoe
If you have a build coming up, start a builder partnership with us. Send us the plans for your next build. We will show you which tier fits each home and what we need from your team before framing starts. You can also reach our Reno, Nevada office at (775) 853-4800.
Share a few details about your project, and our team will follow up to talk through your schedule and next steps.
