We won Best Integrated Home at the CEDIA Awards EMEA 2026—global recognition for excellence in integrated smart home design. The award celebrates a large luxury residence we designed and integrated as a single connected ecosystem, built on one principle: technology powerful enough to manage an entire home, yet simple enough to disappear into everyday life.
We are proud to share a milestone for our team. At the CEDIA Awards EMEA 2026, TechVault has been named Winner - Best Integrated Home. For a craft that is, at its best, invisible, this kind of recognition means a great deal - and it belongs to everyone who designed, wired, programmed, and commissioned the project.
What the CEDIA Award Recognises
CEDIA is the global trade association for the home technology industry, and the CEDIA Awards are among the most respected recognitions in smart home design worldwide. The awards judge real projects on the quality of their design and integration, which makes them a meaningful, independent benchmark rather than a marketing badge.
The Best Integrated Home category is exactly what it sounds like: it recognises how well a project brings a home's many systems together into one seamless, reliable and elegant whole - not a collection of gadgets, but a home that behaves as a single, considered system.
The Winning Project
The award recognises a large luxury residence - a project also featured in Smart Home World - that TechVault designed and integrated end to end. Spread across multiple floors with living spaces, a dedicated home theatre, outdoor areas and more, it brought lighting, climate, curtains, security, networking and audio-video together under one interface, engineered to be as discreet as it is capable.
What made it work was not any single device, but the discipline behind it: an infrastructure-first approach, careful design before installation, and a relentless focus on keeping the experience effortless. You can read the full story in our case study, Intelligence Without Complexity.
What "Integrated" Really Means
The heart of this recognition is the word integrated. An integrated home is one where the systems are designed to work together from the start - on an open standard like KNX - rather than bolted together afterwards. Lighting, climate, shading, security and entertainment share one logic and one interface, so the home feels simple to live in no matter how much is happening beneath the surface. It is the difference we explore in our guide to what home automation really is and across our luxury villa automation ideas.
That philosophy - powerful, yet effortless - is what the award celebrates, and it is how we approach every project.
What This Means for Our Clients
An award is lovely, but what matters is what it reflects. The same engineering standards, attention to detail, and focus on a seamless experience that earned this recognition are what we bring to every home we design - whether it is a large villa or an apartment. For anyone considering a smart home, it is an independent, international endorsement of how we work: on open standards, designed before it is installed, and built to last.
Explore how we approach home automation and home cinema and AV, or see more of our work on our projects page.
A Thank You, and What's Next
This recognition belongs to our clients, who trusted us with their homes, and to our team, who sweat the details that make a home feel effortless. Thank you. We will keep doing what earned it - designing intelligent homes without being complicated, and letting the technology quietly do its job.
If you are planning a home and want it designed to the same standard, we would love to talk. Book a consultation to start the conversation.
FAQs
What did TechVault win at the CEDIA Awards 2026?
Techvault won Best Integrated Home at the CEDIA Awards EMEA 2026 - global recognition for excellence in integrated smart home design. The award celebrates a residential project where automation, audio-video, and the home's core systems were designed to work seamlessly as one.
What are the CEDIA Awards?
CEDIA is the global trade association for the home technology industry, and the CEDIA Awards recognise outstanding work in smart home design and integration around the world. Winning a CEDIA Award places a project among those judged to represent excellence in the field internationally.
What does "Best Integrated Home" mean?
An integrated home is one where lighting, climate, curtains, security, audio-video and control are engineered to work together as a single system rather than as separate devices. The Best Integrated Home category recognises how well a project brings all of this together into a seamless, reliable and elegant whole.
Which project won the award?
The award recognises a large luxury residence TechVault designed and integrated as a single connected ecosystem - a project also featured in Smart Home World. It was built on the principle of technology powerful enough to manage an entire property, yet simple enough to disappear into everyday life.
What does this award mean for Techvault's clients?
It reflects the standards and design approach we bring to every home, of any scale - the same open-standard engineering, attention to detail, and focus on a seamless experience that earned the recognition. For clients, it is an independent, international endorsement of how we work.
Does Techvault only design large award-winning homes?
No. TechVault designs and integrates smart homes of every scale across Delhi NCR and India - from apartments to large villas - on reliable open standards like KNX, with the same principles that shaped the award-winning project: powerful technology that stays simple to live with.