Housebuilders Preparing for the Rise of the Smart Home

Housebuilders Preparing for the Rise of the Smart Home
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Next time you go to move house or buy a new home, as well as thinking about its price, its location, and its transport links, you may well find yourself asking about its operating system too.

At this year's WWDC event, Apple announced that five homebuilders -- including Brookfield Residential, KP, and Lennar -- had agreed to support HomeKit in new properties. "Some of the biggest builders of homes, here in the United States and in China, are now building new homes with HomeKit built right in, so you can move and just start controlling your home," Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said at the event.

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