Services

Infrastructure, network & energy.

You never see the foundation and only notice it when it is missing. Network, conduits, distribution boards and energy are decided at shell stage — after that, every change means building work.

7Services in this pillar
Cat 7structured cabling
645PV modules in one project
20 yrsSpare capacity designed in
Our approach

Missing at shell stage means missing for good.

Spare capacity is cheaper than retrofitting

An additional conduit costs almost nothing at shell stage. Laying the same cable afterwards costs an opened wall — and once it is plastered over, it stays closed.

The distribution board is the calling card

Labelled, ordered, documented. That decides whether anyone can still work on it in ten years without measuring everything afresh.

Energy as one system, not device by device

Generation, storage, heat pump and charging point we plan together. Your own electricity should arrive where it does the most good — that does not happen by itself.

What it includes

7 services in this pillar.

Each planned on its own — their full strength shows in the interplay.

Network & security systems

Network, alarm, video, access control and video entry planned as one trade — with one handover instead of five.

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Home network & cabling

Structured Cat 7 cabling and Wi-Fi without gaps, planned before the first wall is plastered.

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Fibre & conduits

What lies in the wall today as an empty conduit decides what your house can do in twenty years.

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Wallbox & e-mobility

A wallbox only makes sense together with photovoltaics, the mains connection and the smart home.

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Multiroom & home cinema

Music throughout the house, cinema in a room of its own — invisibly integrated, prepared at shell stage.

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Photovoltaics & energy systems

A photovoltaic system does most when its electricity arrives in the storage, the wallbox and the heat pump.

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Control cabinet construction

Whether a smart home runs reliably is decided in the distribution board — designed, built, labelled, tested.

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The framework

This pillar is one of four.

Think all four together and you get a house instead of four systems. To the overview of all services.

Where we work

Infrastructure & energy in Cologne, Düsseldorf & NRW.

smartfabrik is a smart home planning practice based in Düsseldorf (Reisholzer Werftstr. 31A). We plan for private clients and companies in Cologne, Düsseldorf and across North Rhine-Westphalia — and, where wanted, nationwide and internationally. A selection of the places we have already planned and delivered in:

FAQ

Clearly answered.

How much spare capacity should be allowed for?

As a rule of thumb: one additional run per floor into the technical room, plus conduits to the garage, the garden and the roof. At shell stage that is a footnote; later it is the difference between possible and impossible.

Is fibre worth it in the house?

Between the technical room and the floors, yes — it is immune to interference and carries bandwidths that copper will eventually no longer manage. Across the rest of the house Cat 7 remains the practical route.

Do you build the control cabinets yourselves?

They are designed at smartfabrik and built in the workshop of our sister company elektrofabrik — wired, labelled and tested before they go to site.

The first step

Early enough is now.

As long as the shell is open, everything is possible. After that it gets expensive.

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