{"id":4148,"date":"2016-01-13T05:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.99.co\/blog\/singapore\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2022-10-10T02:38:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:38:18","slug":"what-are-smart-hdb-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.99.co\/singapore\/insider\/what-are-smart-hdb-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"What are SMART HDB homes?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has been brewing for a while, but Singapore is accelerating its bold self-ascribed mission to build a tech utopia and create the city of the future. Coined the <\/span>Smart Nation<\/span><\/a> initiative, Singapore is set to marshall the powers of the advent of technology to propel itself into the future as a hub of eco-friendliness, self-sustainability and integrated innovation. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And today, we are starting to see the first signs of the master plan in our urban landscape with novel prototypes of Smart HDB towns becoming a reality.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what is the <\/b>smartness <\/i><\/b>all about?<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 2014, Prime Minister \u00a0Lee Hsien Loong gave a <\/span>speech<\/span><\/a> at the IDA, in which he officially launched the Smart Nation initiative. In line with the rapid growth Singapore has experienced over the last 50 years, the initiative is basically a really, really big and complex plan for the future development of Singapore \u2013 and it all revolves around technology. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psyched yet? Let\u2019s see what the future has in store for us: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the SMART HDB initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A vital part of the Smart Nation initiative resides in housing. Following the launch of the Smart Nation initiative, HDB announced its <\/span>Smart HDB Town Framework<\/span><\/i>, aimed to take better advantage of information communication and sustainable technologies to design more livable, efficient, safer \u2013 in short, smarter<\/em> \u2013 HDB towns. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does this work? <\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first step of the process which HDB initiated was to have all the major players and stakeholders from both the private and public sector come together and identify areas ripe for a technological shift in the nearby future. Companies such as of Samsung, LG Electronics and Starhub have been invited to marshall their wealth of technological knowledge and expertise, and collaborate with the HDB and other government agencies to make this behemoth of a project work.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colloquially known as \u201cthe kitchen of HDB\u201d, this is where some most tech-savvy brains of the nation come together to bake up and try out their ideas.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Smart HDB game plan <\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Smart HDB Town framework straddles four key pillars: <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n