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Josh.ai Control Systems Power North Shore Smart Homes

Bring effortless luxury to Chicago’s North Shore with a professional Josh.ai installation from Avidia. Enjoy hands-free convenience, natural voice control, and a home that anticipates your needs—all while preserving the elegance and charm of your space.

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We’re Dedicated to Chicago’s North Shore Suburbs

As a premier Josh system designer and installer, Avidia provides elite smart home solutions exclusively throughout the northern Chicago suburbs. We proudly bring custom automation to homeowners throughout the following North Shore communities, including:

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Accessible Automation for Everyone

Josh.ai offers an advanced home automation platform for Chicago's North Shore, featuring a user-friendly interface for easy control of settings, devices, and scenes. It supports voice and text commands for automation and is compatible with Control4 and Creston Home systems, perfect for tech-savvy, affluent homeowners. Elevate your lifestyle with elite voice control that brings seamless smart home voice control to every room.

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Live Smarter with Josh.ai

Interact With Your North Shore Property In Whatever Way You Like.
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Josh AI Home Assistant is crafted to empower each member of your Illinois or Wisconsin family with intuitive control and intelligent assistance. Whether through touch, text, or natural voice commands, Josh delivers unparalleled convenience, catering to the diverse needs and tech-savvy preferences of families.
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Josh recognizes that trust and responsibility transform your North Shore house into a home. All Josh products are meticulously engineered to enhance the protection of your data and wellbeing continuously, ensuring that your home remains a secure and comfortable haven.
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Magical

Josh is perpetually improving through over-the-air software updates, ensuring it remains at the forefront of smart home technology. This system is immensely powerful yet provides unmatched accessibility and personalization, catering to the sophisticated demands of every Josh smart home in this tech-savvy community.
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Josh is an AI-powered home assistant designed to empower each member of your Illinois family with intuitive control and intelligent assistance. Whether through touch, text, or natural voice commands, Josh delivers unparalleled convenience and caters to the diverse needs and tech-savvy preferences of suburban families.
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Private

Josh recognizes that trust and responsibility transform your North Shore house into a home. All Josh products are meticulously engineered to continuously enhance the protection of your data and well-being, securing your home while simultaneously making it a comfortable haven.
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Magical

Josh is perpetually improving through over-the-air software updates, keeping it at the forefront of smart home technology. This system is immensely powerful yet provides unmatched accessibility and personalization, catering to the sophisticated demands of every Josh.ai smart home in this tech-savvy community.
A solid blue circle representing a simplistic graphic design element.
A top view of a white circular device with a black center featuring a dog logo and a multicolored LED ring around it, symbolizing the Josh AI voice control device.
A solid blue circle representing a simplistic graphic design element.
A top view of a white circular device with a black center featuring a dog logo and a multicolored LED ring around it, symbolizing the Josh AI voice control device.
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Simple

Josh is designed to empower every member of your family with intuitive control and intelligent assistance. Through touch, text, or natural voice commands, Josh provides unparalleled convenience.
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Private

Josh understands that trust and responsibility help make your house a home. All Josh products are engineered to continuously enhance protecting your data and wellbeing.
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Magical

Josh is always evolving and improving thanks to over-the-air software updates. Josh is immensely powerful, while offering unmatched accessibility and personalization in every smart home.

Uncompromising Privacy

Josh.ai is dedicated exclusively to enhancing your intelligent living experience in the northern Chicago suburbs. With Josh, your privacy is a top priority—firmly protected and secured. Your data will never be used for marketing purposes or sold to third parties. Furthermore, you have complete control over how much information your home collects. What happens in your home stays private.

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A Smart Home Built On Privacy

Enjoy Limitless Customization And Unparalleled Peace Of Mind, Thanks To Josh's Secure, Adaptable Capabilities.
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Set the Perfect Mood

Harness the power of natural language to efficiently create custom scenes tailored to your lifestyle. With Josh, dictate scenes that operate on schedules, incorporate delays, and deep-link to specific media content. You can contextually adjust or activate systems based on conditional factors, such as time, weather, your location, device state, sensor data, and more, ensuring your Josh-enabled home automation system responds intelligently to your specific needs.

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Josh Pioneers a New Era of Intelligent Living

As the first company to integrate hands-free access to generative AI, Josh.ai brings enhanced convenience to your smart home, both at home and on the go. With JoshGPT, the Josh.ai voice and app interfaces are now equipped to add a new dimension to your living experiences on Chicago’s North Shore.

Whether you want to manage your connected devices, deepen your knowledge of familiar topics, or explore new possibilities you’ve never considered, JoshGPT offers limitless potential.

Users can ask JoshGPT about a variety of topics, including:

  • Cooking: “How do you poach an egg?”

  • Travel: “Which airlines fly to Bali?”

  • Health: “Tell me the top remedies for hiccups?”

  • Art: “Who is the most famous impressionist painter of all time?”

  • Trivia: “What is the largest planet in our solar system?”

Built-In Privacy Protection

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Future-Proofed

As Josh adapts to your daily routines, it will begin to recommend actions that align with your personal preferences, ensuring your smart home system evolves as you do.

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Proactive

Set up Josh automations and alerts to inform you of any unusual activities or potential security vulnerabilities, keeping your Libertyville or Inverness home secure and responsive.

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Personal

Customize your experience with tailored app settings and personalize Josh’s interface by selecting from a variety of voices, accents, and responses. Josh curates a smart home that’s as unique as you are.

Use Your Voice, Naturally

Josh utilizes a proprietary Natural Language Processing engine to handle conversational commands, efficiently managing everything from complex compound commands to straightforward interactions. This capability is enhanced by advanced location awareness and an understanding of contextual speech, making it exceptionally responsive to your needs.
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Say What’s on Your Mind

Engage with Josh in whatever way you find most comfortable, whether through voice, text, or the Josh app, and experience smart home interaction tailored just for you.
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Josh Nano

Despite its small size, just slightly larger than a quarter, Josh Nano is designed to manage even the most advanced and expansive properties. Integrated with Josh Core, the brain of the system, it redefines the role of an assistant in the smart home environment.
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Josh Micro

The Josh Micro may fit comfortably in your palm, but it’s packed with power. Equipped with a system processor and cutting-edge voice technology, this compact device delivers a full Josh experience, unlocking limitless possibilities for home automation.
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Josh Edge

Unlike typical remotes focused only on TV control, Josh Edge combines universal entertainment transport buttons with six swappable, custom-sculpted buttons to command your entire North Shore home. Featuring adaptive backlighting, IPX4 water resistance, and wireless Qi charging, it integrates a central tap-to-talk microphone button that unleashes context-aware smart home voice control and hands-free JoshGPT assistance.
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Josh Cinema Remote

For those who prefer the tactile feel of physical buttons, the Josh Cinema Remote offers three-dimensional glass buttons with mechanical clicks, so you can control your environment without taking your eyes off the screen. This remote provides comprehensive control over all your entertainment and smart home devices, from dimming lights to activating smart scenes with voice commands.

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Josh App

The Josh app gives you convenient access to manage your properties and devices from anywhere, helping you prepare your home for your arrival. Its intuitive navigation makes it easy to access custom dashboards, areas, devices, and scenes. The app also offers extensive personalization options to adjust administrative settings, refine floor plans, nickname devices, and customize your interface.

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Josh Touchscreen

Available in polished white or black ceramic, the Josh Touchscreen lets you control your entire home from one spot. The high-performance IPS glass screen responds to swipes, allowing you to display individual rooms or the entire house at a glance. Designed to mount flush against the wall or on tabletop stands, it features proximity sensors that activate the screen as you approach, enhancing interaction and convenience.

Frequently Asked Questions About Josh.ai Smart Home Systems

What makes Josh different from other voice assistants like Alexa or Google Home?

Unlike mass-market voice assistants, Josh.ai is built from the ground up for professional home automation and strict user privacy. It processes natural language locally, handles complex multi-device commands seamlessly, and the company pledges to never sell or mine your data for marketing purposes.

Does Avidia provide Josh.ai installation services in downtown Chicago?

No, Avidia specializes exclusively in servicing homeowners throughout Chicago's North Shore suburbs and surrounding northern communities. We do not service downtown Chicago or the city proper.

Can Josh.ai integrate with my existing Control4 or Crestron system?

Yes. Josh.ai works beautifully as a high-end interface on top of industry-leading control platforms like Control4 and Crestron, giving you natural voice control over your existing smart home systems.

What is JoshGPT, and how does it improve smart home voice control?

JoshGPT brings generative AI capabilities to your voice and app control interfaces. It lets you ask complex questions, plan itineraries, and pull up recipes all completely hands-free, while maintaining total control over your connected home.

Is Internet access required for Josh.ai to control my home devices?

Josh.ai utilizes local processing through Josh Core for its fundamental smart home operations, meaning your essential privacy and home controls remain operational inside your residence even if external internet services drop.

Experience the Future of Voice-Controlled Home Automation with Josh

Enhance your lifestyle in the northern Chicago suburbs or along the North Shore with Josh, the leading AI-enabled voice control system focused on intuitiveness and privacy. Experience effortless automation and seamless control of lighting, entertainment, climate, and more—all through the simple power of your voice.

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