Community Smart Homes

On deploying home automation in large community smart homes

18:57 06 July 2017

Home automation is becoming more and more popular as several gadgets available in the market are proven to help make users’ lives safer, secure and comfortable. Due to the growing demand, more players are joining the market and these include real-estate developers that are in the best position to deliver home automation in large communities, and service providers like telecom operators.

 

Home automation in large communities requires a different model where the dynamics of business, solutions, products and deployments are not similar from those consumer-focused products. There are also different factors that have to be taken into consideration to provide solutions in a large scale.

 

Avinash K Gautam, CEO of Silvan, a Bangalore-based company focused on providing automation products and solutions for community smart homes and enterprises, said: "We acknowledged very early in our journey that for us to scale with our B2B partners, we need more than just innovative products. We built an entire suite of technologies to ensure smooth deployment and maintenance at large scale, while ensuring that the acceptance of solutions by a large set of people and making it relevant for entire community,"