Starlink, Wi-Fi and three zones of audio for a Prince Edward County cidery, designed around how guests actually move through the property and finished in time for the May long weekend.
Before the project, music for the whole venue came from a single portable speaker sitting on a table. That's fine for a small room, but not for a timber-framed tasting room, a stone patio and an open yard. Sound was loud in one spot and missing in the next. On top of that, the patio was being dug up and rebuilt that same spring.
Sound spread across every space the way good lighting is, rather than one loud corner.
A strong internet and Wi-Fi backbone for a rural property, built to carry everything else.
Cabling had to go in alongside the new stonework, not be retrofitted after it.
Everything running for Victoria Day weekend, the start of the busy season.
No running between rooms turning volume knobs in the middle of a shift.
Justin had visited Crimson Cider many times with family and friends long before the project. He already knew how guests drift between the tasting room, the patio and the yard, so the layout was mostly mapped out before the first site visit.
We worked in step with the excavation crew. Once their base was down, we laid conduit from the building out to both ends of the patio before the gravel and stone went on. The cables are protected from the weight above, and if one is ever damaged it can be pulled and replaced without lifting the patio.
The part guests never see matters most. A Starlink connection feeds a wired network and ceiling-mounted Wi-Fi, all brought back to one equipment rack. Speed tests on site came in above 300 Mbps download.
The tasting room, the exterior patio and the yard each run as their own zone. Inside, we used the same weather-rated speakers as outside, which suit the timber room and keep the sound consistent as guests walk through. Every zone has a tuned EQ profile, a preset volume, and an output ceiling that protects the speakers if someone turns them all the way up.
Everything runs through Control4 on a tablet at the bar. Music streams from the owner's own Apple Music account, so new additions to their playlists show up automatically. The TV is hardwired with its sound routed into the system, and a PoE microphone feeds the same audio matrix for announcements.
That was the walk-through Justin gave the finished system on a visit with his wife earlier this summer. Each space has its own sound, and moving between them feels seamless. For Crimson Cider, that means a venue guests want to linger in, and a system the staff can run with one tap.
When the same team handles the internet, the network, the Wi-Fi and the audio, each part is designed with the others in mind, and there's never a question of whose problem it is when something needs attention.
Justin spent 16 years as an industrial electrician before founding Davidson Electrical in 2019. As more clients asked for audio, cameras and automation alongside their wiring, that work became Davidson Smart Solutions. We only install brands we've tested ourselves, many of them first in Justin's own home.
