How many apps do you currently have in your smartphone? Of those, how many do you use on a daily basis? One of the main issues with software for management of residential communities is the difficulty to engage all community users. As powerful as a solution may be, it is always a challenge to get […]
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If you purchase Amazon Alexa or start using intelligent devices for your house such as Phillips Hue, you begin the journey of turning your dwelling place into a Smart Home. These solutions will progressively learn from your interaction and generate data that will make them even “smarter.” They will also feed other devices and systems
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Technology has driven us to an era where the physical and digital worlds are finally connecting in a smart way. Rarely had you seen different stakeholders such as sensor manufacturers, crypto traders and machine learning programmers come together under the same roof, sharing the same vision and showing a real disposition to collaborate.
AI, IoT and Blockchain Expo Amsterdam, 2018 Read More »
A new industrial revolution is taking place. The fourth one, in case you wondered how many others came and went under our noses. Industrial Revolution 4.0 is not one thing. It is more of a combination of technologies and processes aiming for more efficient, transparent and decentralised production. This is the key word to understand
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According to the book Smart Cities: Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition, there seems to be a rush among major urban areas in the world to follow the pattern set by places like Vancouver, Kyoto, San Francisco or Amsterdam. The tag “Smart City” appears to be used and abused by an increasing number of population
Smart communities, somewhere between smart homes and smart cities. Read More »
A recent report in Spanish by real estate firm Savills Aguirre Newman highlighted the growth of the property market in Malaga, Spain. This is the province where Urbytus is based and where most of our users live.
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When you hear the term “residential community”, what image do you get? Maybe a gated community with a few houses and nice gardens, or the apartment building where you currently live? Let us show you what some developers had in mind…
Behemoth Residential Communities Read More »
Letterboxes full of junk mail. Important notifications going missing. How do I tell my neighbour that his dog is digging holes in our gardens? Endless general meetings, but very little progress. Does your residential community use software to tackle these problems? There is no shortage of options available in the market. Free or premium; for
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It can be a lonely, unrewarded and difficult journey for the president of a residential community. Plenty of after-hours work, disgruntled property owners, loads of paperwork, and recurring trips to the bank. It is remarkable that with so many different types of residential communities in different parts of the world, all arrangements seem to rely
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There is a growing trend among younger generations in developed countries to rent dwellings, as opposed to taking on mortgages. Either forced by high prices or simply due to the convenience and flexibility of seeing housing as a service more than like a heavy investment, there is now Generation Rent.
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