Most electricians can wire a home but cannot program one. Most automation companies can program a home but cannot touch the panel. Regent5 is both: a C10 electrical and C7 low voltage licensed contractor, CSLB 1033103, designing and installing smart home electrical systems, structured wiring, lighting control, and whole home automation across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Search for a smart home electrician and you will mostly find two kinds of companies: electrical contractors who add smart switches to a standard wiring job, and home automation installers who subcontract or avoid the electrical work entirely. The gap between them is where smart home projects go wrong, because lighting circuits, panel capacity, shade power, and generator transfer are electrical decisions that live or die by the automation design. Regent5 closes that gap by holding both licenses. The same team that calculates your loads and wires your panel engineers your Lutron lighting control, your automation platform, and your network, as one drawing set with one accountable contractor.
Home automation cabling is the least expensive work of a project while framing is open and the most expensive work to redo after drywall. Our smart home wiring scope covers structured cabling to every television, keypad, access point, camera, and speaker location, conduit pathways for future pulls, and a hardwired network backbone, because everything wireless in a home performs only as well as the wire behind it. On remodels and finished homes, we design retrofit paths that respect the walls you are not opening, including wireless lighting systems such as Lutron RadioRA 3 where fishing new cable makes no sense.
As a smart home electrical contractor we handle the line voltage side in full: lighting circuits, dedicated equipment circuits, panel and service upgrades, EV charging, generator and battery integration, and PG&E coordination from load evaluation through the final meter connection. On the technology side, we are a dealer and installer for Savant, Control4, and Crestron automation, Lutron HomeWorks QSX and RadioRA 3 lighting control, and enterprise networking on Ruckus, Cisco Meraki, and UniFi. One contract, one schedule, one team that cannot point fingers at itself.
Regent5 is based in San Carlos and serves San Francisco, the Peninsula, the North Bay, South Bay, and East Bay, Wine Country, and the Carmel and Monterey area. In San Francisco our work concentrates in Pacific Heights, Sea Cliff, Presidio Heights, Noe Valley, and Russian Hill. Our showroom and experience center in San Carlos runs Savant, Control4, Crestron, and Lutron systems live, so you can use the platforms side by side before any wiring decision is made. Start with the design questionnaire on our smart home planning guide, or contact us to talk through your project.
For a complete smart home you need both disciplines, and the question is whether they arrive as one contractor or two. Split across two companies, the lighting plan, panel capacity, and automation design get negotiated in the field at your expense. Regent5 holds the C10 electrical and C7 low voltage licenses together, so the electrical and the automation are engineered as one design.
Structured cabling to every display, keypad, access point, camera, and speaker location, conduit for future pulls, a hardwired network backbone, and the electrical circuits behind lighting control, shades, and equipment rooms. On new construction it happens before drywall; on remodels we design around the walls that stay closed.
Yes. As a C10 licensed electrical contractor we pull our own permits, design to code, manage inspections, and coordinate PG&E service upgrades from load evaluation through the final meter connection, which matters on projects adding EV charging, battery backup, or a generator.
Often, yes. Wireless lighting control such as Lutron RadioRA 3 installs at existing switch locations, and we design retrofit paths for audio, shades, and networking that minimize construction. The honest tradeoffs get discussed before work begins, not after.
Savant, Control4, and Crestron automation, Lutron lighting and shading from RadioRA 3 through HomeWorks QSX, Josh.AI voice control, networking on Ruckus, Cisco Meraki, and UniFi, and Verkada surveillance. All of them run live at our San Carlos showroom, where you can compare platforms side by side before deciding.
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