Leaders of technology and development join forces to popularise the smart home concept and show how living in a smart home looks like in practice. The main assumption of cooperation between Echo Investment and Samsung Electronics is to present how to apply smart living solutions. The first showroom, presenting smart home possibilities, is located in the flagship project of Echo Investment - Browary Warszawskie at 58 Grzybowska street in Warsaw.

“As an experienced developer, we follow trends and at the same time create new solutions for residents of our estates and city users. Technological progress changes the surrounding world, and we, thanks to smart systems mounted in our apartments, are able to make our clients live easily, more comfortably and safely on a daily basis. We will demonstrate in practice how to benefit from hi-tech. It will be presented at showrooms in all cities where Echo Investment develops and sells apartments. I am convinced that the opportunities offered by smart apartments will be extremely attractive for people looking for their own place to live” says Dawid Wrona, the sales director at Echo Investment’s Residential Department.

In a smart home, we can manage our daily chores without having to get up from a chair or couch. Just turn on your smartphone or computer anywhere in the world to turn on your washing machine and set the right mode, make sure your oven has been turned off, vacuum floors, and even ... check what you have got in a fridge. The smart home is not only the ability to control devices through the application. The devices connected via Wi-Fi ca also communicate with each other. On a display of a modern fridge, you can follow your washing, or send selected recipes straight to your oven. Thanks to these solutions, household chores take much less time, as well as planning and controlling them becomes much simpler.

Additionally, for all those who decide to purchase an apartment from Echo Investment, a special Echo Premium card has been prepared, which entitles to purchase Samsung's electronics and household appliances in Samsung Brand Store showrooms on preferential terms.
Smart home market

According to analysts, smart home solutions are currently the most dynamically developing category of consumer electronics. IDC predicts that in 2019 global sales of smart home appliances will increase by 26.9 percent, up to 832.7 million units. According to IHS Markit and Statistica, the global smart home market is still growing. In 2017, its value was estimated at 27.5 billion dollars. By 2020, the value of smart home shares is expected to double.

The latest technological trends also do not miss the development industry, where it is increasingly difficult to be distinguished by such factors as location and size of apartments. Clients - not consumers anymore, but prosumers - and their needs have become the most important catalyst for changes that give shape to modern, smart homes, buildings and even cities. Among those how looking for an apartment, added values in terms of technologies facilitating the remote management of apartments is gaining importance. Starting from the regulation of air circulation, lighting control, household appliances and audio/video devices, and ending with smart space around residential estates (Smart home, Smart city, Smart community, 2018).

Smart home’s benefits 

The needs of potential buyers and tenants shape the modern landscape of smart apartments. On the other hand, only 3 out of 10 Poles met with the concept of smart living. Most of us do not know exactly what the idea is about (Smart Living, Infuture Hatalska Foresight Institute, 2018). For years, Samsung has been developing smart home solutions, enabling home appliances to be combined into one eco-system managed from a smartphone to make it easier to control everyday tasks. How does life in a smart home look like?

To bring the idea of smart home closer to the Poles, Samsung and Echo Investment have jointly created a space in which people looking for an apartment can try it on their own. The showroom has been arranged as a two-room apartment equipped with Samsung devices and solutions.

Smart home solutions are not the only joint project of Samsung and Echo Investment. At the end of last year, Echo Investment launched a pilot apartment collection program using Samsung tablets. By simplifying procedures and automating the collection of apartments, the customer service process has been reduced by up to 40%. The solution also includes a component of the seal and qualified signature provided by Asseco Data Systems.

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