something different for the channel but what are the chances that you take a three hour
car journey you bundle your family in allegedly we're on a family holiday but i've diverted us
to York so we can come and see Rich Heppell from Art of Smart and when i arrive here he isn't in
but no one's in that means we've got free reign and we can have a look around
and have a look at his training facility and see what Rich normally gets up to when he's at work
Rich Heppell and the team specialise in Control4 and smart technology it seems a million miles away
from one way two way and intermediate switching that we see on the channel a lot but think about
the future where do you want your electrical career to go and that means you'll probably have
to take on some additional training and that's something Richard offers here so you can building
the racks and go through setting up a Control4 system we'll see his training room but the next
room we're going to look at is that cinema room when you say cinema room this is what you think
don't you when everybody love to have one of these somewhere in their house maybe one day we'll be
able to own a property big enough to have a cinema room like that that's the aspiration it train as
an electrician progress through and maybe one day you could have your own cinema room this is no
ordinary training facility you think of your own workshop at college you're probably looking around
for the odd coupler clips green sleeving we're talking top end you've come here obviously it's
going to cost a few pounds in order to upskill yourself but you're going to want the best kit to
train on so let's have a look in here as we come straight in there's a rack directly in front of
me someone's been working on so this is what we're talking about having the ability to make off all
of these cables inside of the rack we're thinking about the tv we're thinking about control systems
for maybe your Playstation or your Xbox all built into one central location and if we look behind us
this is some of the wiring that they've got in their own system so that's a little
bit more complicated maybe than two way and intermediate switching we mentioned earlier on
all of this here is actually controlling the systems throughout um Rich Heppell unit
it feels quite strange standing at the front of a classroom with the white boardwalk effectively
an interactive board behind me and the desk set out so the people can come in and be trained if
you're interested in more deeper understanding of this Control4 system i'll leave a link to
Rich Heppell's Youtube channel in the description below Rich is working on top end properties we're
not talking about two bed semis and introducing the odd smart light fitting or smart heating
system we're talking about a fully integrated system from the the gates to open up the property
the security cameras the sound the visuals and the lighting throughout the whole installation
being controlled by control4 and having that top-end smart technology so this is where all
happens this is where the learning process starts for those people who are looking to extend their
electrical knowledge and introduce themselves into the world of top end smart in the form of
the rack system and control4. so come downstairs from where the training room was where Rich is
training people obviously to build their own racks their first time out to one where it's been built
for Art of Smarts project so this rack here is built in York at their facility and then shipped
onto site where the rest of the infrastructure has been installed so think of all the the AV cables
all those Cat6 cables or the lighting control systems that have been pulled in on site ready to
come back to the central rack system where all the control occurs so this is where the magic happens
for Rich in that building process backing onto the room where art smart build their racks is
their warehouse and they've got a clever little system here as the stuff arrives it's split into
two containers for each job the first container is all the stuff that needs to be shipped to site
in order that that wiring process can start the second container linked to the same job is all the
materials needed to build those racks and if we look around the corner here they've even branded
the tape that they put on the boxes when they send them out so if i press this button here we can get
our Art of Smart tape out so we can stick that and we even brand up the boxes before they get to site
social media is important to lots of businesses and it's very important to Art of Smart as well as
their YouTube channel they're massive on Instagram and i'll leave a link to their Instagram channels
in the description as well we'd all like the following room i'm standing in
Art of Smart's studio so we've got a green screen behind there and if i was to roll that out of the
way i've got the one that's branded for Art of Smart as well we've got soundproof in this side
and Richard also does as well as his videos he's also a big fan of podcasting that's where
he is today so i've missed out and seen him today because he's off doing a podcast in Milton Keynes
which is quite ironic because Milton Keynes is only 15 minutes from where i live and i've drove
three hours to see him and he's not here today let's have a look at his conference in room next
i come out the studio and i'll walk across to effectively what is the conferencing room and this
is the first chance i've got to show you anything really cute here obviously couldn't play any
of the the videos obviously because we'll get a copyright strike here on YouTube i'll come over to
here where we've got a control panel i can change what is our stretch ceiling above our head and the
colour patterns that it can be offered so we're currently at white if i press the button it'll
change to red so we've got a red look to it if we go to blue so we've got the other smart blue next
but the one i really like is party mode so if i can press my party mode button the lights
will cycle through all the LED colours that can be offered by this system yeah pretty impressive our
final rooms got me a little bit worried because the door says tech support and rack room now i
would need technical support if somebody rang me up and said there was a fault on the rack behind
me and that's the rack that controls all the smart technology we've seen as we've walked around here
the facility in York the Rich Heppell's got however in this rack there are one or two things
that Gary would like to suggest that he does know what they are so that's a Playstation 5 and we've
got a Sky tv set up here it might be as you're watching this video you're thinking yourself hang
on a minute i'm nearly completing my electrical apprenticeship i'm looking to do AM2 or AM2S
and i need to bolt something on to add value to myself meaning that you can offer more things
to your customer or maybe even start your own business and grow that business and it's maybe
smart technology you want to get into and if you do i recommend you come up to York and see
Rich Heppell and perhaps take part in his academy to start that training process in order you can
start building racks and working with control4 but as always we hope this video has been some help