Tag: smart home
New wave in smart home market
A producer of smart home software that helps landlords cut operating costs such as shuttling keys to waiting maintenance workers or guiding tours for...
Brilliant and ButterflyMX bring elevated smart apartment experience to multifamily buildings and gated communities
At the CEDIA Expo, Brilliant, the leading smart home control company, announced a first of its kind integration with ButterflyMX, creator of the smart...
Smart apartments aren’t just about smart lighting
As a consumer, it’s easy to view the launch of connected home devices and want the same functionality in my apartment. But for the...
Smart buildings will upend resident experience
Technology is set to overhaul the resident experience at SFR and multifamily properties, according to a panel held at the IMN RealTech Forum which...
High-end homeowners love biometric tech—but should they?
A slew of new, biometric home technology has hit the market in recent years, letting homeowners unlock doors and access apartments with nothing more...
8 ways to recruit residents using smart apartment technology
Multifamily properties that lag behind and refuse to change with the times are going to struggle to remain competitive in the future. On the...
Alliance Residential Company, Dwelo, Google and Nest collaborate on largest smart apartment rollout in...
Alliance Residential Company, in collaboration with Dwelo, Google and Nest, announces the launch of its "Alliance SmartHome" technology package across more than 25,000 luxury...
My report from the future
It’s the age of the vanishing. Vanishing keys. Vanishing remotes. Vanishing light switches. Just what else will vanish as voice control takes over in...
App fatigue and the future of IoT
Doorbell. Lights. Security cams. Garage door. Home cloud. Everything entertainment. Neighborhood watch. I'm only getting started. Sure, there's Echo or other hubs—big promise, little...
Amazon buys Ring doorbell for $1+ billion
It’s all part of the carefully-calculated Amazon home-invasion, right? Now Amazon, through its newly-acquired Ring smart doorbells, can monitor its packages on your doorstep....
An apartment that knows your next move
That’s the vision some technologists have for the future of domestic living, and a startup named Brain of Things says that it is developing...
Apartment IQ
The emerging mechanization promises benefits to property owners and managers of apartment communities, including energy cost savings, possible incentives from insurance companies and housing...
What comes after smart products?
With digitization 1.0, companies create products and services that allow manufacturers to collect data on how their products are being used by customers in...
The future of housing
While our industry has often been slow to adopt new technologies, the opposite, of course, is true of the electronics industry. As such, I...
