Written by: Krishanu Mukherjee, AVP – Growth, ADDA.io
Humans have always been social beings preferring to live together. Hence, one of the major reasons why housing societies have become a preferred residence option for urban living is because of this social and connected living experience it offers.
With our fast-evolving technology landscape, immense possibilities are opening up around how various aspects of community living can be enhanced towards a better living experience. Till even a few years back, most gated communities had a security guard with registers to record entry/exits at the gate. Then came the era of gate management apps, which connected the gate with residents, committee members and other community management staff, and opened up immense possibilities. Community Apps, which were previously designed to just capture issues and service requests from residents, and approve visitor notifications, have also evolved into a bustling hub of resident collaboration.
Today with AI, these community management apps, gate management apps are jumping into a new era of advancement, powering even better living experience for residents and automating a number of manual tasks for committee members and community administration personnel. With AI powered Community Apps, for example, residents can communicate with community staff in any language, with the AI translating their requests into English. These community Apps also help in bringing the Community together. Thus these societies can come together to create an impact by easily collaborating on various topics of importance. These AI powered apps pack in the best technology has to offer, at the same time also giving security and peace of mind to residents regarding their data and other aspects of community living. With these community apps, residents can also get distraction free notification about important announcements. Moreover, the apps are used to automatically collect society management funds, pay rents etc, thereby easing the task of managing the property.
There are multiple other aspects of Community Living where AI powered systems can be of great use. Regarding security of the community, AI tools can be combined with the existing CCTV cameras to provide actionable intelligence. For instance, detecting movement close to a community’s edge at night may signal a break-in attempt and alert security. Additionally, these solutions have the potential to save lives. For instance, the issue of privacy is a common topic of discussion when it comes to swimming pool safety and whether or not CCTV cameras should be employed. Here, an AI camera can be deployed, which keeps discreetly analyzing the video to detect any threat to pool users and sound an alarm if such an incident happens. Alarms can be automatically raised by AI systems that are trained to recognise irregularities, suspicious, or unusual motions or behavior.
IoT technologies, such as face recognition cameras, are frequently used by communities to record staff attendance or even as clubhouse access control systems. In order to facilitate simple access to cars, additional equipment such as Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) are utilized at gates. When utilized for these reasons, AI cameras have the ability to learn and improve their accuracy on their own. Housing societies typically use manual PPM procedures to keep an eye on the condition of their infrastructure. Here, IoT devices can be utilized to automate many manual tasks, for instance, to automatically check the health of various assets in a community. Though the use of these IoT devices have not become very mainstream, certain communities use such technology to monitor infrastructure and assets that are hazardous or hard to access. When combined with AI, all of these gadgets may collect information, learn, and improve their ability to forecast events, etc.
Most communities today are becoming skeptical about using community apps from companies who have advertisement businesses that enable ads under the pretense of being free, leading to users paying much more in various kinds; and are migrating to companies who offer subscription-based and ad-free serious software for society management. Such serious software is the future of community living as they ensure both – the best community experience powered by the latest technology as well as data security.
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