When apartment residents park in their parking spot, an elevator will automatically arrive and wait for them. When they head out afterward, a mirror in the apartment entranceway displays the day’s weather and reminds them of where they parked.
Apartments geared with advanced information and communications technology (ICT) have begun appearing on the market one after the other. Residents can now adjust the lights in their home at the touch of a fingertip. They can also calculate their electricity usage and heating costs in real time and can prevent any waste of energy.
Daewoo Engineering and Construction’s Prugio Summit brand of apartments have touch-screen wall pads installed in the living room, the entranceway, the bathroom in the master bedroom and in the kitchen. Through the 10.2-inch touch-screen monitor, residents can control the lights and heating or figure out electricity, gas and water usage on a real-time basis.
The monitor is also connected to a video surveillance system and shows a live feed from the apartment complex’s playground and park so that parents can keep an eye on their kids. Residents can also make calls to other units in the same complex. Routers are installed in the ceiling of every room and living room so that people can use the Internet without connecting to a wall socket.
A touch-screen wall pad in the living room allows residents to switch on a surveillance system when leaving their home, calculate their electricity usage and make calls to other residents in the same complex.
A touch-screen mirror displays the weather, calls the elevator, shows the location of the resident’s car and turns off all the lights in the house.
A touch-screen monitor in the kitchen shows a recipe.
Residents can touch the mirror in their entranceway to call the elevator. They can switch on a surveillance system when leaving the home and can locate their car in the parking lot. If a guest presses the doorbell when no one is home, a camera in the door takes a photo of the visitor and shows it to the resident when he or she returns home, or can send it to the resident’s mobile phone.
With a touch-screen monitor installed on the wall of the bathroom in the master bedroom, residents can answer the phone and watch TV. They can call security or an ambulance if there is an emergency and can open the door to the home.
The master bedroom bathrooms in Hyundai Development’s I-Park City brand of apartments in Suwon are equipped with motion sensors. The sensors can read human movement and automatically turn on the lights. A security guard can notify the residents of the arrival of a parcel by sending a message that will appear on the touch-screen monitor in the living room.
A monitor installed in the bathroom in the master bedroom allows residents to open the door and to make telephone calls.
Residents can calculate their energy use on a real-time basis and control the lights in their home.
Hyundai Engineering and Construction has developed a smartphone app that allows residents to learn about their electricity usage via their smartphone. Electricity sockets around the home are equipped with USB sockets so that people can charge their devices. Finally, Daelim Industrial has also developed a smartphone app that allows residents to control their gas, light, heat and electricity usage.
By Limb Jae-un
Photos: Jeon Han
Korea.net Staff Writers
jun2@korea.kr
