Smart home provision

Oracle5

New user here.
I am building a house and I am going to run the cables for a smart home so in the future I can have one installed with the cables already in place. Is it common practice yet to put these cables in during first fix? Alarm cables have been ran in for years now and I thought the building industry would have been forward thinking about this but I haven't seen many of these new houses being wired for smart homes

DeeJunFan

the issue would be there is no standard smart home cable.

Depending on the system you choose there are numerous different types of cable needed. Some of them are propriety so you would have to buy them along with the system you are going to install.

Most people are including CAT 6 for example in future proofing but its difficult to know exactly what you are going to need until you know what you are going to install.

You could leave conduit and then pull through cable when you know what you need.

Oracle5

Thanks for the reply.
I assumed a CAT 6 to a position for a sensor in each room, a CAT6 to each switch and some sort of a twin cable to window contacts and actuators and speaker cables would cover most systems. Conduit is a good idea but I assume with those cables above nearly all smart home systems could be used

ArraMusha

Surely wireless is smarter than cabling in the majority of cases. Also a lot of manufacturers are releasing wifi enabled devices which make home automation really easy

17larsson

A proper smart home would have a sensor in every room and would be much more cheaper/reliable to have those wired