Lighting, climate, monitoring, shading, and audio — designed, programmed, and commissioned as a single integrated system by a real controls engineer. Not a shelf of gadgets. Not five apps. One system.
I handle the brains. Your electrician handles the wires.
No obligation on any of these. If they lead somewhere, good — if not, you still keep what I find.
A phone or video call about what your building could do. No site visit needed, no obligation.
I’ll walk your place and show you exactly where a burst pipe, failed water heater, or winter power outage would hurt — and what monitoring it would take to know before the damage spreads.
Most older buildings heat empty rooms all week. I’ll map where the energy budget leaks and leave you a written report your board can act on — whether or not you hire me.
Dead zones, buffering, dropped calls. If I can’t fix it, you don’t pay.
Every project gets exact written pricing before anything is signed.
Northern Minnesota doesn’t have generic buildings. Here’s who I work with most.
Lighting that follows you, heating zones that follow your schedule, one app instead of eleven. Systems that do the right thing automatically, so you pull your phone out less, not more.
Know what’s happening at the lake place when you’re not there: temperature, power, doors and windows, water. Leak protection with automatic water shutoff, freeze protection that keeps working even when the internet doesn’t, and alerts the moment the power goes out.
Steel buildings are their own animal for wireless and wiring. I design retrofits that work with the building instead of fighting it — often without opening a single finished wall.
A building that’s full eight hours a week shouldn’t be heated like it’s full all week. Scheduling and zone control on your existing heating system, plus remote eyes for whoever looks after the building — so the budget goes to the mission, not the utility.
Guest codes that expire on checkout, climate that resets between stays, energy that behaves when the place is empty — without driving over.
Lighting schedules, comfort, energy monitoring, and after-hours awareness in one system your staff doesn’t have to think about.
Offer your clients whole-building automation without managing it. I design, program, build the panel, and commission; you build the building. Your client gets one more reason to choose you, and it costs you zero management time. Ask about the referral partnership.
Line-voltage work is always done by your licensed electrician — that’s the model, and it’s why electricians like working with me.
Every design, every panel, and every line of programming is mine. When you call, I answer — no account rep, no subcontracted crew you’ve never met.
Before Cornerstone, real industrial controls-engineering work — the same discipline now built into panel design, code-aware wiring, and careful commissioning.
Homes, cabins, barndos, churches, shops, offices — one integrator, one platform, whether the job is a single room or a full commercial retrofit.
Loxone’s software and updates are free, forever, and your system’s documentation and configuration are yours at handover — not held back to keep you paying.
One of only a few Loxone-certified partners in Minnesota — and the only one built around whole-building automation as the core business, rather than an add-on to a security or home-theater install. I own the whole system, not just one piece of it.
I install one platform, deliberately: Loxone. After a career in controls engineering, I picked the system I’d put in my own house — and these are the reasons.
No cloud dependency. If the internet goes out at the cabin in January, every switch, schedule, and freeze-protection routine keeps running. You lose remote viewing, nothing else.
The app, the programming software, and updates have been free since 2009. Loxone’s own numbers: over a quarter-million buildings run on it worldwide.
Lighting, heat, audio, cameras, door codes — one interface, and real switches on the wall that always work.
KNX, DALI, Modbus, and certified third-party gear — so existing equipment can often join the system instead of being replaced.
Loxone’s own reported figures: up to 50% savings from properly coordinated heating and cooling, and 40%+ potential total savings when climate control, lighting, and load management work together instead of running independently.
The same platform runs a single-room cabin panel and a multi-building commercial retrofit. Whatever your building becomes, the system doesn’t need replacing to keep up.
Energy and deployment figures above are Loxone’s own reported numbers, not independently verified by Cornerstone.
You’ll know the scope, the price, and the timeline before a single wire is pulled.
Fifteen minutes, phone or video. No site visit needed.
I map your building, priorities, and budget into a written proposal with exact pricing. No surprises later.
Your system is built and configured on my bench, tested before it ever ships to site.
Your electrician — or one of my local partners — handles the wiring. I coordinate so you don’t have to.
I bring it to life on site, walk you through it, and leave complete documentation. A month later we tune anything you’d like different — included.
Every package includes design, panel build, programming, and full commissioning — priced to the scope of your building.
Exact written pricing comes with your proposal — every project starts with a free consult.
My working demo system is in Grand Rapids. Book a time and you can flip the scenes, trip the sensors, and watch the responses live.
Book a Demo By appointmentMost clients keep me on a flat monthly Care Plan: software updates applied for you, remote health checks, tuning and adjustments, and priority response when something needs attention. Three levels, plain terms, month-to-month, cancel anytime. Details at your handover — no commitment before then.
Fifteen minutes, no pressure — a straight conversation about what’s possible and what it costs.
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