Smart Home, Lighting & AV in Kahala and Diamond Head.

Cave Group does. We are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and Lutron Gold Dealer based in New York, and we design, install, and service lighting control, shades, cinema, audio, networking, security, and backup power for houses in Kahala, Diamond Head, and Black Point on a project basis, on site with Hawaii-licensed electrical and electronic-systems contractors.

Expect it to see them. The district requires subdued, non-reflective exteriors, sets fences and walls over 36 inches back behind plantings, and runs projects through special district permits, with a Design Advisory Committee on major ones. We draw exterior devices to the rules and submit them with the architect's permit; inside the house the system is yours.

On a project basis. Our offices are in New York and New Jersey, and our hospitality work includes hotels; the design and the drawings happen with your architect and builder from there and on site at the milestones that need it, the installation and commissioning happen on site, and Cave Watch supports the system remotely afterward. The permitted trades Hawaii requires, a licensed electrical contractor for line-voltage work and the C-15 electronic-systems and C-15a alarm classifications for low-voltage and alarm work, are local, and the licensed contractor pulls the county permit.

Hawaii's island grids cannot borrow power from a neighbor, so Hawaiian Electric carries its own reserves and the outages are long when they come: rolling blackouts on Oahu in January 2024, Hurricane Lala on Hawaii Island in 2026 with warnings of weeks or months in the hardest-hit areas, Hurricane Lowell taking power from more than 90 percent of Kauai that September, and Public Safety Power Shutoffs on Maui in fire weather. A battery-backed rack and a generator sized for the house are part of every Hawaii design, with the emergency-generator exemption in the state noise rules met through best available control technology.

Hawaii licenses this work through the Contractors License Board: the C-13 electrical contractor license covers line-voltage work and includes the scope of the C-15 electronic-systems classification, and low-voltage, alarm, and telecommunications installers are licensed under C-15, C-15a, and C-15b; none of the C-15 classifications include conduit, so a licensed electrician is on every job. We design, program, and commission; the licensed Hawaii contractor executes the permitted work.