Smart Home Budget Calculator — by Shield Low Voltage
What Will Your Smart Home
Actually Cost?
Describe the house and the systems you want. This returns an installed investment range — hardware, cabling, labor and programming — the same way we build a real proposal. No email required to see the number.
Projected investment range
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Installed · hardware, cabling, labor and programming
How to read this
Where the numbers come from
Priced the Way
We Write Proposals.
Every range here is built from what these systems cost installed in Utah homes in 2026 — the gear, the cable, the labor and the programming hours that make it work as one system. The low end assumes clean access and mainstream components; the high end assumes the top of that tier, difficult construction, or both. Real proposals land inside the range once we have walked the house.
Foundation
Alarm.com, Lutron Caséta, Sonos, UniFi. App control, reliable, expandable. The right answer for most homes under 4,000 square feet and for anyone who wants results without a dedicated control processor.
Luxury
Control4 at the center, Lutron RadioRA 3, in-wall touchscreens and keypads, distributed audio and video, cameras on the screens. One interface for the whole house. Where most of our custom-home work lives.
Estate
Crestron Home or Savant, Lutron HomeWorks, Palladiom keypads and shades, reference audio and video, a dedicated theater. Engineered, documented, and standardized across a large property.
Before you build
The Cheapest Dollar
Is the One Spent Before Drywall.
Pre-wire is a small line on a new-construction budget and the reason every other system costs less and works better. If you are building, run this tool with “new construction” selected, then read what we run before the drywall goes up. If the house exists, the numbers already include the extra labor of doing it right in finished walls.