sainty2k3:

No,this same Nigeria that is Gadget freaked .it will shock you to know that some people already have this in their homes

charix:

No video = no proof. Comment disregarded for using hearsay as proof.

charix:

...but does your government provide you constant electricity and your telecomm companies provide you fibre optic level data speed?

I'm still a lover of natural, brilliant designs that blend well with the environment without depending on technology that might just disappear someday. It scares me to think what will happen if all these smart devices were hit by an EMP. Suddenly our houses become too useless and we suffer massive withdrawal due to our dependence on technology. We are not getting very productive with our current applications of technology. We need to make these technologies more human. Suddenly your house cannot maximize natural light, air, space, and stops being environmentally friendly because these smart systems got dysfunctional? Scary.

laudate:


All these things will remain a pipe dream unless African cities get their priorities right.

To be able to build smart cities you need to ensure that the following structures are put into place, first:

1). Uninterrupted & affordable Electricity/power 24x7 that does not blink in all nooks and crannies of such cities;

2). High-speed broadband effective fibre-to-home networks that will not be cut or disrupted by any 3rd parties.

equuscaballus:
Naaaa, Nigeria isn't ready for this. We can't even monitor and manage energy consumpt TGion in buildings talk more smart buildings ...

redsun:
The energy is not even there. It is just there wasting away, with no concerted efforts and knowledge to tap into it efficiently.

One thing I wouldn't want Africans to imitate in building is the way the west build like boxes(apartments,back to back and semidetached),with neither space nor privacy for supposed house owners.. People shouldn't be boxed up together in uniform and close knit structures as if they are in prisons.

laudate:


Bros, our people are already doing that one, oh! All those structures you call "apartments,back to back and semidetached," don boku for Lagos. Each time I see them, I wonder what happened to the airy African courtyard concept, that typified most of the homesteads in our towns & villages in the past.

Go to most of the new housing estates springing up in Lagos these days, and you see box-like structures with tiny rooms that can hardly take a 6x4 bed. Most of them are being put up as terrace buildings, and the few semi-detached buildings that have some semblance of external parking space cannot even take two cars with enough room to spare. By the time they squeeze in the generator house & security guard chalet, what is left? And when you hear the horrific price tags they place on those space-challenged properties, you go run!

onDjobtraining:
Hi

Brilliant contribution from everyone, i will like to say that the major infrastructure required for an automated or
smart/intelligent building is:
* An internet services
* A smart phone/device