INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
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As AI, big data and smart homes become a lived
reality, what are residential estates doing now
to make that future happen?
Future
PROOF
A
543,000-square-metre development on most aspects of work, delivery, monitoring
in Shanghai’s Xuhui District is and controlling the wider work and living
about to redraw the blueprint for environment,’
residential living. While future- James wrote in a recent blog post. ‘More and
facing organisations have long been more estates (residential, industrial, office
considering the possibilities of smart and mining) are looking at intelligent sensors
cities, this high-tech neighbourhood in China’s and aerial surveillance to draw attention to
biggest city is shaping itself as the world’s first where unwanted activity is taking place, and
AI town. Big data and artificial intelligence will what the intruders are doing, followed up by a
drive everything in this residential community, reaction force intervention.’
Drone
Guards
Director
Kim
from automated driving to drone-powered parcel
delivery and AI-powered medicine, finance, Meanwhile,
transport, media and business solutions. have
ICT
expanded
infrastructure
their
providers
cloud-based
visitor
management solution to cater specifically
Is this what the future of residential living will for the needs of multi-dwelling-unit estates look like? More and more developers believe and large residential estates. This guardless so – and the evidence suggests that that solution, which includes an enterprise estate future is not too far away. management application that lets bodies added at the keypad that will send a snapshot
corporate and residents’ associations send of the visitor to the resident via a push
In South Africa, the future technologies of bulk communications to residents, allows notification. If it is not the person who should
community living are dominated by security. residents to manage visitor access via a be given access, the resident can raise an
Companies like Drone Guards are already mobile app. alarm. This adds a layer of security to existing
Wearable payment device
technologies
using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or
like
data-gathering
security
– as you probably know them – drones) to These offerings provide an audit trail of who cameras and AI-assisted control rooms – both
track intruders. ‘The world is moving to the issues the codes, and who enters and leaves of which are by now fairly standard features
use of drones in combination with widely the premises, therefore providing complete at estate gates.
dispersed intelligent sensors for improving accountability. Furthermore, a camera can be
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