Residential
Lighting, shades, music, television, climate, cameras. One interface, and the same way of working it in every room of the house.
Tempe, Arizona
Technology that disappears into the architecture
Power, lighting, shades, sound, climate, security and the network underneath — designed together and installed by one team.
Who we are
Complete technology systems, designed and installed
Desert Systems is based in Tempe, Arizona. We design the system as a whole — power, control, lighting, shading, audio, video, security and the network — so every part is accounted for by one team.
Our best work happens alongside an architect, designer or builder while the drawings are still open — when the infrastructure can be designed into the building rather than added to it later.
What we do
The same discipline, two kinds of room
A house and a floor of conference rooms need the same thing from us: a system somebody can work without being taught.
Commercial
Conference rooms that start on time, lighting that pays for itself, access control that holds, and a network built to carry all three.
The hard part is not making it powerful. It is making it simple.
Anyone can fill a rack. The work is in the programming that hides it — one button on a wall panel, a phone or a tablet, behaving the same way every time, so the technology stays out of the way of the room it sits in.
Selected work
Recent work
Homes across the Valley, photographed the week we finished them.
Why Desert Systems
Three things we will not trade away
01
Ease of use
One button, phone, tablet or wall panel — and the same button next year. If it needs a manual, we have not finished.
02
Reliability
Good equipment, wired properly, on a network we designed. Most call-outs come from none of those being true.
03
Aesthetics
Five plates on a wall become one keypad. We choose parts that disappear into the finish, because you paid an architect for the wall, not for the switches.
Technology Assurance Plan
We would rather find it than hear about it
Round-the-clock monitoring of your AV and network equipment, so most faults are cleared before anyone in the building notices.