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Stop forwarding port 3671, says the KNX Association
The KNX Association's own security note says what every villa owner with remote access should hear, and here is our take on it and what we specify.
ELV design and supply for private villas in the UAE, since 2020
Villa ELV, engineered and priced in hours
Send us a villa's floor plans. Within hours every system is designed room by room and priced line by line, with the reason for each device written beside it.
Automation, WiFi, CCTV, intercom, door access and audio, for the interior design and fit-out firms, contractors and consultants who build villas, and the owners who live in them. We supply the hardware; the installer fits it.
Building your own villa? Start here
A demo villa's ground floor. Yours is drawn from your own plans.
Hardware we design with
- Theben
- Inspinia
- Akubela
- Optimus
- ABB
- Schneider Electric
Pick your door
The design is the same whoever holds the villa. What changes is what you need from it.
- Interior design and fit-outEvery switch, keypad and screen chosen by material and colour, and the ELV line priced while your tender is open.
- ContractorsA bill that survives the site: heights, back boxes, conduit and cable for every device, and the installation stays yours.
- ConsultantsA specification you can sign, with the rules and the bus physics printed on the page.
- HomeownersYour own villa, priced before you commit. You choose the installer; we tell you the price first.
Six systems, one design
Lighting and climate, WiFi, cameras, the gate, the front door and the music usually come from six suppliers. We design them together, so the wiring, the walls and the bill agree.
Automation
Lighting scenes, climate, curtains and presence, on the open KNX standard, so no single brand ever owns your house.
WiFi
Every room covered, staff quarters included, by access points wired back to the rack: roughly one for every 100 m².
CCTV
A ring of cameras that watches the boundary of the plot rather than the family, recording 31 days by default.
Intercom
A station at the gate, answered from the room screens and your phone, with a compact screen in the kitchen for staff.
Door access
A smart lock on the main door as standard, and more doors only when you ask for them.
Audio
Music in the rooms you live in, with the amplifiers out of sight in the rack.
Three readers, one villa
One design, written three ways, so everyone on the project reads the same villa with the same numbers.
You see two rooms at full depth before you commit, and the whole villa once you do. The complete documents open behind a confidentiality agreement.
Plans in, bill out
A floor plan PDF and your answers go in. The design and a priced bill come out, the same day.
Send the plans, answer the questionnaire
If we can't read a plan, we say exactly what is missing. Then a short questionnaire, ideally answered with your client: tick what each room should have, from dimmed light to motorised curtains, then a few answers for each system.
Rules place every device; an engineer checks it
The rules place devices room by room, size the backbone and run eight checks across the bill. An engineer at Homestat reads the design before it is released to you.
A bill where every line explains itself
Tap a line to see the rule that placed it and the answer that triggered it. Remove one, and the bill re-prices itself with an undo. Nothing is typed into a bill by hand.
Then you order the hardware, and your installer wires, programs and commissions it from our documents. We never install. Every step in detail
From the working software, with a demo villa and a demo price book.
Parts, then the work
Six systems, each priced from the parts your villa needs, each with its own subtotal on the bill. The wiring, installation and commissioning are your installer's, quoted from our documents. Your own bill arrives in hours.
How we priceOn our bill
The parts and the engineering
Every part of every system at MSRP, system by system, with the design, the three document sets and the engineer's review.
On your installer's quote
The work in the walls
Wiring, conduit and containment, installation, programming and commissioning, priced by your installer from our documents.
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Your switches cost nothing. Keep any series that matches your sockets, and a small module behind each one brings it into the system. If you would rather have one of ours, we add it to your pack at its price.
Keeping your own switchesWhere our villas are
Each warm patch is a community where we have finished villas, in the UAE, Qatar and Oman. We only show a community once there are at least two, so no single home can be picked out.
Communities, by city
Dubai UAE12
Al Barari 2021Arabian Ranches III 2025DAMAC Hills 2023District One 2024Dubai Hills Estate 2022Emirates Hills 2020Green Community 2021Jumeirah Golf Estates 2023Jumeirah Islands 2022The Springs 2026Tilal Al Ghaf 2024Villanova 2025
Abu Dhabi UAE10
Al Raha Gardens 2026Al Reef Villas 2020Bloom Gardens 2024Golf Gardens 2023Jawaher Saadiyat 2025Mangrove Village 2022Noya 2024Saadiyat Beach Villas 2023West Yas 2021Yas Acres 2022
Sharjah UAE7
Al Rahmaniya 2020Al Zahia 2023Aljada 2024Masaar 2025Nasma Residences 2021Sharjah Garden City 2026Tilal City 2022
Ajman UAE6
Ajman Uptown 2021Al Helio 2025Al Mowaihat 2026Al Rawda 2022Al Yasmeen 2023Al Zorah 2024
Doha Qatar7
Al Gharrafa 2025Al Waab 2021Aspire Zone area 2020Legtaifiya 2024Lusail 2026The Pearl-Qatar 2022West Bay Lagoon 2023
Muscat Oman7
Al Khoud 2023Al Mouj Muscat 2025Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos 2022Muscat Hills 2024Qurum 2021Seeb 2020Shatti Al Qurum 2026
Notes from the field
News from the region with our view on it, candid reviews of brands we sell and brands we don't, and the rules we design to.
The journalGuide
How much does home automation cost for a villa in Dubai?
How a complete villa ELV package is priced in the UAE, system by system, what the price includes and leaves out, and the five choices that move the number the most.
News
Matter in 2026 supports cameras, but the platforms still disagree
Matter 1.5 brought cameras but not one unified smart home, so here is where the standard stands and why a villa still needs a wired backbone.
Guide
How to read an ELV bill, whoever it comes from
Eight questions to ask of any villa ELV bill, from the reason behind each line to power supplies, storage, spare ways, scope, VAT and the kind of price you see.
News
KNX on indoor air: measure first, then control
The KNX Association makes its case for demand-controlled ventilation, and we explain why a CO₂ sensor belongs in the majlis before a screen does.
Guide
You don't need smart switches. Keep the ones that match your sockets.
Why the switch line on a Homestat bill reads AED 0, how a binary input turns the switches you already chose into KNX controls, and when a keypad is worth it.
Wherever you are
A short film: a night flight, two uninvited visitors, and a villa that answers from the air.
Take-off · 1:15 · with sound. Captions are on; switch them off in the player.
Tell us how you live
Building your own villa? Eight short steps: your project, your rooms, then each system. Stop whenever you like; your answers stay on this device until you send them.
Send one villa
Open your Studio or send the plans. The design at selling depth costs nothing.