Smarter Than Smart Homes :the New Age Genius Homes

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Over the past 10 years, real estate developers have been in a race to integrate high-tech solutions and modern facilities into their projects.

With the growing focus on smart homes, developers of housing projects are ready for whatever it takes to fit the housing projects with intuitive and intelligent technologies that will ease the lives of the residents.

As the 5G connectivity is expected to arrive in the near future, the network technology is expected to be a game changer in the smart home space and make the connected things faster, simpler, and more efficient.

There are several startups that have started working on smart home technologies and are fast emerging as smart home service providers. One of them is Troon Pacific, a luxury home developer based in San Francisco, which is integrating home design with technology in each of its new housing projects at a development called Residence 2680.

The luxury home developer has integrated a Savant home automation system that is in the charge of lighting, thermostats, window shades, TV viewing, audio, and other activities in the house through a mobile device or a tablet from anywhere.

19 Dutch, a residential building in the New York City’s Financial District neighborhood of Manhattan, is providing its residents with the most state-of-the-art smart home technology. 19 Dutch provides a wide range of amenities that enable residents to experience remarkable and surreal details out of everyday living.

19 Dutch has Butterfly MX, the world’s first smartphone video intercom system, is installed at the front entrance of the residential building to allow guests to do without the traditional check-in. The technology makes it convenient for the residents in the building and their guests to get used to around-the-clock attended lobby. Furthermore, residents can control various functions through the app such as the lighting and temperatures of their apartments and also the remote door access.

KPMB Architects-designed Thornwood House in Toronto is connected to the natural environment of the ravine instead of the city outside the front door with its design based on the transcendental number phi. A number of the aspects of the Golden Ratio inform the flow and shape of the house. The unifying character of the house integrates a smart integrated control system that comprises of security surveillance, climate control, and automatic adjustment of lighting and window shades depending on the weather and other external factors. They are controlled by either a tablet or a smartphone accessed via fixed iPads installed throughout the home.

In the U.S., 601 Bond, a latest Time Equities-developed rental building in Michigan’s Grand Rapids, provides residents with smartphone-enabled control for nearly every part of their settings. Besides controlling temperatures in their units through Nest Thermostats, residents can lock and unlock doors, adjust lighting in every room, view guests or delivery people through a building-specific app, and access the building's intercom system. These features can also be included with Amazon's Alexa to help residents to activate smart features just by using their voice or to access them by their phones.