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Folks,

I am at an early stage of construction of my home in bangalore and am looking for information on structured cabling for Data/Voice/Video. The idea is to have one outlet consisting of 2 video jacks, 2 ethernet jacks and 2 phone jacks in each areas such as bedrooms, kitchen, living and all D/V/V cables fished through the wall concealed & distributed from one central location of the building.

One of the challenges I see in getting structured cabling done properly for residence is to have someone who is knowledgeable in both civil and electrical works. The civil work will involve making appropriate sleeves in beams to route cables in the same floor, making holes to route cables across floors, making appropriate grooves for conduits so that D/V/V cables should not interfere with signals from electrical wiring, motors, transformers etc., The electrical work will involve setting up a distribution panel, sourcing different types of cables, video distribution (Dish/cable/security camera), phone wiring (bsnl/airtel, intercom), internet access through wired/wireless etc.,

Are there any vendors in bangalore who provide structured cabling services for residences ?

Thanks

Hi Vimal,
For structured cabling services first you need to make provisions in structure.The same can be designed by an architect and executed by any electrician (with little guidance ).You can contact the home automation companies,they give you all the solutions needed.Its a co-ordination work between architect and the automation consultant.Google - you can get lot of home automation companies in your area.

Regards
Ar.Praveen.N
Ardes Architects and Interior Designers
ardesarchitects@gmail.com

Home automation is provided by ABB (located beside Race Course - Khanija Bhavan I believe is the name of the building). But mind you, they are very expensive, minimal provisions cost anywhere from rs. 2 lakhs, the sales person was mentioning automation he has done in one single house cost rs. 60 lakhs. (I think it is on the expensive side, but everyone has a different tolerance level for what is and isn't).

Vimal wrote:Folks,

I am at an early stage of construction of my home in bangalore and am looking for information on structured cabling for Data/Voice/Video. The idea is to have one outlet consisting of 2 video jacks, 2 ethernet jacks and 2 phone jacks in each areas such as bedrooms, kitchen, living and all D/V/V cables fished through the wall concealed & distributed from one central location of the building.

I am just curious, when you say 2 video jacks in each room, are you taking about co-axial video jacks or HDMI? If it is HDMI or other digital video, wouldn't there be a limitation in the cable length?

from http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/ ... mi-run.htm In practical terms, today, for distances 50 feet and shorter, even economical HDMI cables are usually reliable at 720p, 1080i and (though this is less consistently so) 1080p. For very short runs--all those 3 and 6 foot cables out there in the world, at least when not being used as part of a much longer signal chain--it's best not to worry about it at all. But for those long runs, the future is still very unclear. Low-cost 50-foot cables which are near their performance limit at 1080p today may not work with 16-bit color 1080p tomorrow

Vimal wrote: making appropriate grooves for conduits so that D/V/V cables should not interfere with signals from electrical wiring, motors, transformers etc., The electrical work will involve setting up a distribution panel, sourcing different types of cables, video distribution (Dish/cable/security camera), phone wiring (bsnl/airtel, intercom), internet access through wired/wireless etc., Thanks

I am by no means an expert in structured cabling. a couple of decades ago, when I ran into interference issue on a shop floor that had many motors, I had used shielded cable in a metal conduit pipe (both were grounded) to mimize the interference on the data network. I am not recommending that you do the same, just suggesting that there might be cheaper alternatives to solve a particular issue, if structured cabling is way out of one's budget.

Vimal,

A few years back I built a house with structured cabling almost similar to what you are thinking of doing. I did provide the central distribution panel and the wall boxes with modular jacks. All dirty work like chasing walls, routing conduits, pulling cables, fixing the panel and wall boxes, etc was done by my electrician, supervised by my architect. I provided some minimal drawings for this like the places where the panels and boxes have to be fixed, the place where I wanted the satellite antenna to be placed, the BSNL cable routing (underground) and demarcation point, cable TV entry point, etc. All cables were procured locally at Bangalore. The goal was to do everything with minimal visibility of cables both inside and outside the house. I believe we were able to achieve what we set out to do, with not a single cable seen entering the house.

The hardest part was getting someone to do the actual wiring (connections) even after providing detailed drawings. One BSNL engineer offered to do it for me (private job), but his quote was ridiculously high so I ended up doing the Phone/Internet part myself and getting the Dish and Cable guys doing the connectors for the TV part. If you are interested to know more or want to know some specifics, then please drop me a PM and I will be glad to help as much as I can.

bboy

Thank you all for your response.

tvsh, the second video point will be coxial and not HDMI.

bboy, I will contact you.

Thanks