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More than 1,400 households will be able to monitor electricity usage across all appliances in smart-use enabled apartments in Punggol Northshore.
As of December 14, 1,192 homeowners who have collected the keys to their apartments, about 85 percent of the total, are the first in Singapore to live in intelligently enabled Housing Board apartments, the HDB said yesterday.
The 1,402 units in total are in 12 residential blocks spread over two Build-To-Order (BTO) projects, Northshore Residences I and II. These flats are equipped with smart plugs and high-tech switchboards, allowing occupants to transform them into smart homes.
The smart distribution board allows users to monitor their energy consumption, which, in turn, enables them to save electricity and lower their utility bills, HDB said.
Built-in features allow residents to easily adopt other smart home solutions and applications developed by commercial companies.
Beyond the apartments, smart features have been incorporated into Punggol Northshore, one of seven waterfront housing districts in Punggol.
Residents living in Northshore Residences I and II will be the first to use a next-generation parking system, the latest addition to the district’s suite of smart features.
Parking @ HDB is an intelligent system with five new features, four of which will be tested in a car park with 1,000 spaces starting Monday. There will be no gate barriers at the entrance and exit of the parking lot, as the vehicle plates are registered by cameras.
Visitors who park there will have the option of paying their charges by credit or debit card through the Parking @ HDB app. The correct fee will be automatically deducted when they exit the parking lot, without motorists having to manually activate the app or use a CashCard in the vehicle unit.
They will receive in-app notifications in real time at the start and end of their parking sessions that will also inform them of the charges incurred. They will even be notified if they are parked in an unauthorized space.
A new color-coded LED ceiling light indicator system will indicate space availability. Green indicates availability for short-term parking, while amber means reserve for seasonal parking. The indicator light will turn off for occupied spaces.
Using the collected parking usage data, the smart parking system will allocate spaces between seasonal parking and short-term parking to meet different demands from residents and visitors in real time. This feature will be implemented at a later date.
HDB said it will extend the test to other parking lots in the Northshore district as more BTO projects are completed.
Within the district, sensors have been deployed to analyze the performance of key real estate services such as lighting, water pumps, elevators and garbage collection, for predictive maintenance.
Sensor-controlled smart lighting has been installed in common areas that can be automatically dimmed, and a smart irrigation system using humidity sensors.
HDB CEO Cheong Koon Hean said the completion of the first smart enclosures at Punggol Northshore is a “major milestone” in HDB’s smart journey, which began in 2014.
Talent manager Alvin Lim, 36, who moved into his five-bedroom apartment at Northshore Residences I with his wife and two-year-old daughter earlier this month, said he intends to hook up his smart TV and refrigerator to built-in functions for a start.
Lim, who drives regularly, said barrier-free parking makes parking more efficient, saving him a few minutes every day.
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