What areas of Melbourne do you service?

We work across Melbourne and surrounds. Most of our recent projects sit in Toorak, South Yarra, Brighton, Malvern, Malvern East, Glen Iris, Glen Waverley, Canterbury, Williamstown, Albert Park, Port Melbourne, Yarraville, St Kilda, the Mornington Peninsula, and Torquay.

Do you do residential, commercial, and industrial?

Yes. One company, three divisions. Most clients come to us for residential smart homes. We also fit out commercial venues with audio visual and networking, and run industrial electrical for warehouses and facilities. The same A-grade licence covers all three.

What smart home platforms do you specialise in?

Apple HomeKit, Control4, Basalte, Ekinex, Philips Dynalite, KNX, and Home Assistant. We are the only Melbourne team built around Apple Home as the core layer, with commercial-grade platforms underneath when needed. Networking is UniFi, security and intercom included.

How do I start a project with Elec Reid?

Use the Build Your Home form on the website or call +61 450 342 075. Every project starts with a conversation about how you live and what you want the house to do, then we scope the work, recommend systems, and prepare a proposal.

Do you do small jobs or just full smart home installs?

We focus on full home design and integration projects, but look after existing clients for smaller jobs too. One-off socket repairs on homes we have not worked on before are usually not the right fit.

Are you licensed and insured?

Yes. Registered Electrical Contractor REC 35750, public liability insured, full compliance certification on every job, and a Certificate of Electrical Safety issued on completion.

UniFi · Hardware

Dream Machines & Cloud Gateways.

The brain of every UniFi system — router, firewall, controller and camera recorder in one box. Sizing it right is the whole game.

One box replaces four.

The gateway replaces the ISP router, a standalone firewall, a network controller and — critically — the NVR that other camera systems make you buy separately. Every UniFi Protect camera on the property records here, on hardware you own, with no monthly fee.

It is also where we manage your system remotely: per-device visibility, restarts, updates and diagnostics without a site visit. When something misbehaves at 7am, it is usually fixed before you have finished breakfast.

The range, honestly.

Ubiquiti sells almost a dozen gateways. For Melbourne homes and small commercial, four matter. Full specs on ui.com.

Cloud Gateway Ultra

Compact gateway for network-only sites. No camera recording — which is exactly the trap. If cameras are ever on the plan, this is the wrong box.

Small offices, network-only homes

Cloud Gateway Max / Fiber

Compact gateways that do run Protect, with NVMe storage for camera recording. The Fiber variant brings 10G for multi-gig internet plans.

Most homes with a modest camera count

Dream Machine Pro

The rack-mounted standard: routing, controller, and a proper 3.5" drive bay for weeks of camera footage. 10G SFP+ uplink to the switch.

Full smart homes, 6–10 cameras

Dream Machine Pro Max

Doubles device capacity and adds dual drive bays with RAID protection — footage survives a drive failure. The one we spec when cameras are the point.

Camera-heavy homes, commercial sites

The recording trap.

The most common mistake in DIY and cheap-quote UniFi systems: a gateway that cannot record the cameras that are coming next year. The entry-level gateway runs the network beautifully and records precisely nothing.

We size the gateway for the system you will have in five years — camera count, storage weeks, drive redundancy — not the system on day one. Upgrading a gateway later means re-doing work you already paid for. Getting it right the first time costs a few hundred dollars more and saves thousands.

In a proper install the gateway lives in a rack with a UPS, so a power flicker never corrupts footage or drops the network. That is standard on every Elec Reid install — it's in the pricing.