01 / DESIGN
Aesthetic freedom
Keep a real toggle, antique switch, designer mechanism or other latching dry-contact device—even in a deeply automated home.
Professional smart-home infrastructure
Use Any Switch.
Control Any Smart Home.
Phantom Controls separates the wall switch from the automation platform, giving architects, designers and homeowners freedom at the wall while integrators keep a reliable, serviceable control system behind it.
System architecture
ANY LATCHING SWITCHStandard · antique · designer · architectural
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PHANTOM-TXAddressable wall-side switch transmitter
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PHANTOM-RXRS-485 receiver + IP gateway
24V DC
Low-voltage bus4-wire
Power + RS-485IP
Automation bridge
Low-voltage bus4-wire
Power + RS-485IP
Automation bridge
Why Phantom exists
The smart home shouldn’t dictate
what goes on the wall.
Keypads and proprietary controls are excellent tools, but they are not the right visual answer for every room. Phantom creates a clean boundary between architectural design and automation technology.
02 / INFRASTRUCTURE
Wired by design
A shared low-voltage bus gives integrators deterministic switch events, centralized serviceability and a topology that fits professional installations.
03 / PLATFORM
Decouple the ecosystem
The wall-side interface stays consistent while the receiver handles translation into the selected automation or lighting platform.
Two-piece architecture
Simple at the switch.
Smart at the rack.
The Phantom-TX monitors the physical switch and reports an addressed state change over the shared bus. Phantom-RX receives those events and exposes them to the control ecosystem over the local network.
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Phantom-TXCompact wall-side transmitter with rotary address selection and dry-contact input.
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Four-wire trunk24V DC, ground and RS-485 A/B shared across addressed devices.
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Phantom-RXDIN-rail gateway receives bus traffic, hosts configuration and bridges to IP.
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Automation logicThe control platform decides what each physical switch event should do.
Integration targets
One wall-side language.
Multiple control ecosystems.
Phantom is being built around an adapter-style receiver architecture so the physical switch infrastructure can remain stable while integrations evolve.
LUTRON QS / QSX
CONTROL4
CRESTRON HOME
SAVANT
ELAN / NICE
Platform names are trademarks of their respective owners. Compatibility is subject to validation, software revision and final production configuration.
Help shape the production system.
Phantom Controls is moving from working prototypes into beta hardware, integration validation and real-world field testing.