1. Luxury homes must be “smart”
In the late 1990s, smart apartments were considered a luxury item of the rich in the world. Entering the 21st century, with the advent of microelectronics technology, smart electronic devices have become popular. Thanks to this, intelligent control technologies are widely applied and quickly become the trend of future housing development. Technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple, and Samsung are all looking to dominate this market.
Indeed, Smart Apartment gives residents a dreamlike “technology lifestyle”. When waking up, the owner has officially connected to the automatic system. The application will check the schedule of the day, the equipment is ready for operation, the building accepts cars to enter and lead to the parking area …
One day at The Edge (Amsterdam, Netherlands), one of the most modern buildings in the world, the life of residents begins with a smartphone application. Through that, all activities are controlled and processed with only a few manipulations of fingers.
2. From Smart Home to the Smart Living Ecosystem
In a smart home, all devices are connected and controlled by the control center via an application installed on the smart home mobile device.
Currently, Apple enters the Smart Home market with the advantage of having an iPhone mobile platform. With iOS 9, Apple introduces the HomeKit standard to connect smart home devices to the iOS operating system and phones. From here, the manufacturers of smart home devices that want to connect to HomeKit have to follow Apple standards and must be approved by Apple.
By connecting and managing the system with smart devices, many real estate businesses have expanded the concept of Smart Home into the Smart Living ecosystem. This is the future trend of living is built on a technology platform. Accordingly, when you become a resident of the project, you will own a Smart ecosystem and live smart within the entire system of utilities and services.