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High-End Apartment Whole-House Smart Control Solution Case Study
2026-05-25
The evaluation criteria for high-end apartments have evolved far beyond premium interior finishes and premium city views. Modern high-end property buyers prioritize intelligent living experiences, expecting residential spaces to sense human activities and enable seamless linkage and adaptive adjustment of whole-house lighting, temperature control, security, audio and video systems.
For real estate developers, system integrators and Smart Home brands, delivering customized integrated whole-house smart control solutions has become a core competitive advantage in the high-end residential market.
1. Project Background & Industry Challenges
This project is located in Chengdu, China, covering a 45-storey high-end apartment building with a total of 280 residential units pre-reserved with intelligent installation ports. The developer aimed to build a unified whole-house intelligent control system to integrate lighting, HVAC, electric curtains, access control and customized scene modes, enabling centralized management of all devices through a single unified interface.
The project faced four key technical and customized challenges:
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Complex device integration The system needed to connect and adapt devices from more than five different suppliers, requiring strong cross-brand protocol compatibility.
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Unified aesthetic specification The appearance, material and color of switches and control panels had to match the high-end interior decoration standards, including customized glass, metal and exclusive color schemes designed by professional interior designers.
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Scalable system architecture The solution needed to reserve expansion interfaces to support subsequent access of new devices, such as safety call sensors and new energy vehicle charging equipment.
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High operational stability The overall device online availability was required to exceed 99.9%, with core functional modules capable of operating independently without cloud network reliance.
2. Solution Architecture & Core Configuration
The overall solution adopts KNX intelligent control panels and multi-protocol gateways as the core control architecture, building a stable and expandable one-stop intelligent management system. The core configuration is as follows:
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Equipped with 10-inch and 4-inch intelligent central control panels, installed in the living room and master bedroom of each household for hierarchical scene control.
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Integrated with KNX modules, Wi-Fi and BLE multi-protocol gateways to realize multi-device and multi-network fusion control.
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Supports wired Building Intercom access, delivering stable and clear video intercom performance.
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Optional KNX twisted pair communication protocol supports unified docking with building-level HVAC systems, meeting the control standards of commercial and large-scale intelligent projects.
All panels are equipped with a customized Android desktop system. Developers can independently configure and adjust terminal UI styles, boot screens, scene icons and mobile linkage functions to achieve personalized brand customization.
3. Project Delivery Highlights
As the core hardware and solution provider for this project, X-Focus completed full-cycle customized delivery covering product selection, sample testing and mass production of over 600 devices, with the entire project cycle completed within 20 weeks.
Key delivery achievements include:
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Customized hardware: 10-inch and 4-inch touch control panels with exclusive color and surface treatment to perfectly match the overall interior decoration style.
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Powerful software functions: Custom desktop program supports more than 64 independent scene modes for each household, covering diversified living scenarios.
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Wide protocol adaptation: Pre-installed mainstream communication protocols and driver programs for lighting, HVAC and smart lock brands, realizing rapid compatibility and stable docking of third-party devices.
4. Software System & User Experience
The intelligent panel is equipped with a self-developed customized Android desktop system, specially optimized for whole-house intelligent control scenarios. A fixed bottom navigation bar divides the interface into six core functional modules: home overview, lighting control, temperature control, access management, scene mode and energy consumption statistics.
4.1 Real-time Home Status Overview
The home dashboard centrally displays real-time household data, including indoor temperature, HVAC operating status, lighting switch status, access control records and real-time weather updates. Combined with human induction sensors, the system can automatically recommend scene switching solutions according to different time periods, realizing active intelligent perception.
4.2 Flexible Scene Control
Users can activate preset scene modes via the panel interface or voice control, including home, away, movie and sleep modes. Each scene can trigger synchronous linkage of multiple devices. For example, the home mode will automatically turn on entrance lighting, adjust the air conditioner to a comfortable 23°C, open electric curtains to a proper angle, and release the access control security alarm.
Residents can independently modify and customize scene parameters on the terminal without professional programming operation, achieving flexible and convenient personalized control.
5. Practical Reference for Enterprise Purchasers
Based on the practical experience of this large-scale high-end residential project, we have summarized targeted selection suggestions for enterprise purchasers and solution integrators engaged in similar intelligent renovation projects:
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Customized vs. standard products: For residential projects with more than 100 units, customized panels with unified software systems can effectively optimize user experience and strengthen brand differentiation in the high-end property market.
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Reasonable protocol matching: A hybrid architecture of wired and wireless protocols (KNX, HA, Zigbee, RS485 and private cloud platforms) balances operational stability, expansion flexibility and project cost, realizing complementary advantages of multiple technologies.
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Controllable delivery cycle: The customization and production cycle of new panel designs ranges from 5 to 18 weeks. Adopting mature reference designs can shorten the cycle to 2–3 weeks, greatly improving project efficiency.
6. Project Summary
This high-end apartment intelligent renovation project verifies that whole-house intelligent solutions have become a mature and standardized configuration for high-end residential projects. It not only brings stable investment returns for real estate developers, but also serves as a core selling point to enhance property competitiveness.
The key to successful project implementation lies in selecting a reliable cooperative manufacturer with mature multi-protocol technology, standardized hardware production capacity and flexible UI customization capabilities.
X-Focus has delivered customized whole-house intelligent solutions for partners in more than 30 countries worldwide, covering small-scale boutique residential communities and large-scale smart city projects with thousands of households. Our in-house R&D team provides one-stop full-process services, including appearance design, circuit development, firmware debugging, mobile software development and cloud platform docking, delivering comprehensive technical support and project operation guarantee for global enterprise clients.
