The Plugged In Life : Smart Homes
The one of the largest marketing buzzwords on automation home in the Indian real estate market
. Inside a spacious 6,000 sq ft five-bedroom apartment of an upscale gated community in Bangalore suburb, its resident can put on the music and dim the light-all with one touches of a touchscreen. Mother can quickly check on her child playing in garden while sitting on her couch in the living room watching her favorite TV show.
You can see some of the features of a demo flat at the Mantri Espana and in some other residential property in Bangalore developed by city-based real estate firm Mantri Developers Pvt. Ltd. The company pleased with the results wants to emulate these smart-homes automation features across its residential property in Bangalore.
Mantri collaborated with Cisco Systems Inc, which will develop new information and communication technologies (ICT) enabled real estate models to create smart urban homes where not just the apartment but the entire project could be connected through a wireless network.
Automated homes is one of the biggest buzzwords in an Indian real estate market that constantly seeking to differentiate - especially in high-end segment where buyer budgets have the room of automation. Concept was first introduced by Lodha Group in its one of the residential property Bellissimo launched in Mumbai in 2006. Later used in High-end Luxuria township in Thane and is now using it in nearly all its projects.
This trend is catching fast pace with other developers as well. In Bangalore itself, developers like Total Environment Building Systems Pvt. Ltd. also using it for its Windmills of Your Mind project apart from Mantri Developer. For Example: Each villa at Total Environments spreads over 24-acre project site in Bangalore, Whitefield area which costs around Rs. 5 crore. Project shares many of the automation features that the Mantri Espana offers and those can be accessed by using an iPad.
Such as Sobha Developers Ltd. has come up with another prominent
property in Bangalore is also marketing it as Sobha Habitech project as a smart home project.
Cost Factor:
Residential property in Bangalore such as Mantri Espana gives the residents the option of choosing from a host of services and pay only for the bucket of services they pick. Today home buyers will be given an option to choose between gold, silver and platinum categories. While this gives customers greater flexibility and also the systems are upgradable as customers can upgrade from silver to platinum categories later if they want. Though all developers are not making this services optional: at Sobha Habitech the home buyers automatically buy into these smart homes.
Reach:
Almost all the developers company is using the home automation features in almost every residential projects. Mr. Sushil Mantri said this is just the beginning. Going forward not just with one project but all the residential property in Bangalore will be connected to each other through a centralized control room.
Today real estate consultants are hopeful that smart home services will not remain confined to only luxury residences and trickle down into mid-segment and budget homes.
In next one-two years most developers are going to use some sort of automation features irrespective of the price as said by Chief Executive Mr. Om Ahuja , residential, at property advisory firm Jones Lang LaSalle. He also stated that, given the weak power supply and back-up in many cities, he is not sure that how these devices will work and many developers would use home automation as a strong marketing tool in near future.
Its a futuristic trend and one has to wait and see to what extent home buyers take to it. The luxury homes with these solutions usually employ domestic help and therefore many are questioning the need for such smart-home solutions. One has to do a reality check and find out the reach of these products.
Features:
Sobha Habitech have conventional manual switches coexisting with centralized touch pad controls. Various automation features can be accessed through a wireless network using touchscreen or smart phone interfaces available for installation on popular mobile phone platforms. These features can be categorized into different stages - light control, temperature control, safety features and entertainment.
Light in an apartment can be automated to turn on as soon as one is inside home and turn off in case a room is unoccupied for a certain period. They can also be programmed to switch on at sunset and off at daybreak. Inside the rooms, windows shades can be programmed to adjust for maximum energy efficiency based on the time of day or outside temperature which helps save some energy and many more.
ICT planner, Cisco help integrate technology into a community offering residents services such as an intelligent concierge, private tutoring, doctor consultation and digital lifestyle solutions not just within the apartments in a project but also between various residential projects in the future maybe with centralized system.
by: lokeshmanu24
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