Estate Living Magazine Invest SA - Issue 45 September 2019 | Page 61

L I V E
send bulk communications to residents, allows residents to
manage visitor access via a mobile app.
These offerings provide an audit trail of who issues the codes,
and who enters and leaves the premises, therefore providing
complete accountability. Furthermore, a camera can be added
at the keypad that will send a snapshot of the visitor to the
resident via a push notification. If it is not the person who should
be given access, the resident can raise an alarm.
S M A R T
– has three focus areas: service improvement, caring for the
environment, and the transition towards renewable energy.
Again, security is the by-product, not the goal.
‘The transformation of the networks into a smart infrastructure
that is safer and more reliable is putting consumers at the centre
of our activity, giving them greater capacity for decision-making
and connectivity,’ i-DE CEO Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros
said in a recent statement. ‘Networks are the circulatory
Big electric robot taxi car Renault EZ-GO concept at 88th Geneva International Motor Show
GIMS, produced by French multinational automobile manufacturer Renault
This adds a layer of security to existing technologies like data-
gathering security cameras and AI-assisted control rooms – both
of which are by now fairly standard features at estate gates.
In Spain, for example, public multinational electric utility
company Iberdrola’s electricity distribution brand i-DE – which
already has a network of more than 11 million connection points
Internationally, this has been the underlying intention of smart
cities (on a large scale), smart homes (on a small scale) and – on
the level that we’re particularly interested in – smart residential
estates.
But the security benefits are simply a very useful by-product
of smart technology’s ultimate goal: to build an enormous,
interconnected grid of information that can be gathered,
processed and interpreted, and then applied to make the system
run more smoothly.