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Smart Home Brands We Specify, Install, and Support.

Selected by system role, project requirements, serviceability, and manufacturer support.

A reliable smart home is designed as a complete system, not assembled from a list of logos. TruDefinition selects equipment for the room, performance goal, integration requirements, long-term support path, and the role each product must play. Savant is our core control platform; the remaining manufacturers support specific audio, video, lighting, shading, security, energy, and installation needs.

Home Automation & Control

Savant

Authorized Dealer

The platform we lean on for the homes that deserve the best. Quiet under the hood, beautiful on top — predictive automation, intuitive interfaces, lighting, climate, audio, video, and the Savant Power energy system stitched into one experience. We're a certified Savant dealer, which means trained, supported, and accountable.

Apple HomeKit / Siri

Selected Brand

Voice control woven into the home through Apple's ecosystem. A word from the kitchen and the house answers — light, climate, music, scenes — without ever opening an app.

Audio

Steinway Lyngdorf

Core Platform

The reference standard for in-home audio at the highest level. Room-correcting amplifiers and speaker systems engineered by the legacy of the world's most respected piano maker. For the listener who hears what others don't.

L-Acoustics

Core Platform

The concert-touring loudspeaker brand brought into the home. Coaxial designs, line-source arrays, and processing that turns a room into a venue.

JBL Synthesis

Core Platform

The flagship cinema and music system from the brand that defined professional sound. Reference-grade speakers, processors, and amplifiers — the equipment behind some of the world's great private theaters.

Video, Projection & Display

Sony

Core Platform

Native 4K SXRD laser projection that sets the reference for home cinema. Contrast that lets the dark scenes actually be dark, and color tuned for the way the film was meant to be seen.

Epson

Core Platform

Premium home theater projectors with class-leading brightness and color accuracy for media rooms and dedicated cinemas alike.

Barco Residential

Core Platform

Commercial cinema engineering adapted for the home. Reference-grade laser projection for the dream room.

Megapixel

Core Platform

Direct-view LED video walls for residential cinemas and signature spaces that demand a screen without compromise.

Samsung

Selected Brand

QLED and MicroLED displays for living spaces, plus the outdoor television line engineered to survive Texas sun and weather.

TruDefinition Screens

Core Platform

Our own projection screens — fabricated for the rooms we build, tuned to the projectors we install, calibrated to perform the way the room demands.

Movie Sources & Streaming

Kaleidescape

Core Platform

The luxury movie server. Reference-quality downloads of the films you love, indexed by cover art, ready in seconds. The way movies should arrive in a serious cinema.

Apple TV

Selected Brand

Streaming the way streaming should feel — fast, clean, and woven into the rest of the Apple ecosystem of the home.

Savant

Core Platform

Integrated source control and streaming across every zone of the home, all on the same elegant interface.

Theater Components

Fortress Seating

Core Platform

The chairs the rest of the room is built around. Hand-built theater seating in premium leathers, with the engineering and finish to last a generation.

Vicoustic

Core Platform

Acoustic treatment for the rooms that need to disappear behind the picture. Absorption, diffusion, and architectural panels designed for both performance and beauty.

GIK Acoustics

Core Platform

Studio-proven acoustic treatment that handles bass trapping, first-reflection points, and reverberation control without ever calling attention to itself.

Lighting & Shades

Savant Lighting

Core Platform

The Ketra and GE Lighting professional lines, now united under Savant. Tunable full-spectrum LED, silent dimming, and circadian tuning — light that keeps your hours.

DMF Lighting

Selected Brand

Compact, low-profile recessed downlights with museum-grade color rendering and tool-free install — the modern standard for a clean ceiling.

Coastal Source

Core Platform

Weatherproof landscape lighting and outdoor audio on a marine-grade brass-and-bronze connector system — engineered to outlast the Texas seasons.

WAC Lighting

Selected Brand

Architectural fixtures and landscape lighting — clean lines, considered finishes, and the engineering to live with the house for decades.

USAI Lighting

Selected Brand

High-end architectural downlights and trims for the rooms where the fixture should disappear and only the light should remain.

KLUS

Selected Brand

Linear LED profiles for coves, cabinets, and architectural details. The hidden source behind the most considered rooms.

J Geiger

Core Platform

Whisper-quiet motorized interior shades and drapery, engineered with the precision and finish a designer would sign off on.

Crown Shade Company

Core Platform

Custom exterior motorized screens and specialty treatments for the windows nobody else figured out — skylights, arches, oversized openings.

Future Automation

Core Platform

Hidden TV and shade mechanisms — the screen that drops from the ceiling, the lift that hides the AV behind millwork.

Security & Access

Yale

Core Platform

Smart locks that bring keyless convenience and remote access to the front door — encrypted credentials, audit logs, and clean integration with the smart home.

Schlage

Core Platform

Heritage-quality smart locks and access hardware. Strength and security with the finishes a designer expects.

Ring

Selected Brand

Video doorbells woven into the rest of the home. See the visitor, speak to the visitor, from anywhere.

2N

Core Platform

Professional-grade IP intercoms and video doorbells — the reliable, integrator-grade alternative for properties that deserve more than a consumer doorbell.

Energy & Climate

Savant Power

Core Platform

Smart-breaker panels that turn every circuit into a data point. Watch the watts, automate the loads, manage solar and EV charging — all from inside the same Savant app that runs the home.

Airzone

Core Platform

Zone-by-zone climate control that lets each room hold its own setpoint, all coordinated through the home automation platform.

Power Conditioning

Torus Power

Core Platform

Toroidal isolation transformers that give the AV system the clean, regulated power it was engineered for. The reason a reference theater sounds the way it should.

SurgeX

Core Platform

Surge elimination and power conditioning trusted in broadcast, hospital, and reference-grade environments. Protection without ever degrading the signal.

Installation Hardware

Sanus

Selected Brand

Premium TV mounts and AV furniture — the unseen hardware that keeps every install clean.

Future Automation

Core Platform

Motorized lifts, drop-down mechanisms, and hidden display systems for the rooms where the technology should disappear when it's not in use.

Lowell Manufacturing

Selected Brand

Equipment racks and structured enclosures built for serviceability — the closet you could photograph.