Coming to the UAE · Abu Dhabi pilot from 2027
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The same agentic AI brain, speaking Arabic and English on WhatsApp — for homes in the UAE, and for UAE families looking after their parents’ homes in India.
Two ways families in the UAE will use it
Nobody has to learn an app. Parents, grandparents and the rest of the family simply send the home a WhatsApp voice note.
In Arabic, on WhatsApp
She says it is hot. The agent checks the rooms, the time and her usual setting, then acts on its own — and tells her what it did, in Arabic.
الجو حار
“It is hot.”
Checked before acting
شغّلت المكيّف على 24 درجة وأغلقت الستائر.
“I set the AC to 24 degrees and closed the curtains.”
Built for Gulf homes
Cooling is the biggest load in a UAE home. The agent pre-cools only the rooms in use and learns each person’s preferred temperature.
Schedules can follow sunrise, sunset and the day’s prayer times — lights, curtains and quiet hours — only if the family asks for them.
Grandparents, parents and children can all message the home. Alerts go to the people the family chooses.
Nothing is shared without the family’s permission, and pilot data is planned to stay in the region. A family member can override anything.
Sleep-aware rooms
When someone dozes off with the light, fan or AC running, the agent first checks whether anyone else in the room is still awake. If nobody is, it fades the light, turns off the fan, puts the AC into sleep mode and switches off a geyser left on, each the way the family chose. Change a setting and watch the night replay.
Starting the night…
Saved so far tonight
0.00 kWh
Energy is an estimate against leaving everything as it was until 6:30 am: ceiling fan 75 W (40 W on low), LED light 12 W, 1.5-ton inverter AC about 1 kW at 22 °C with about 6% less power for every degree warmer (BEE), and a 15-litre geyser that loses about 0.8 kWh a day keeping water hot, half of which it spends again reheating in the morning.
A small presence sensor, not a camera, sees that nobody has moved for a while and that breathing is slow and steady.
If anyone else in the room is still awake, nothing changes. The agent waits and checks again once they are asleep too.
The light fades slowly rather than snapping off; fan, AC and geyser follow the family’s settings. Anyone can override by voice note.
Care alerts
Reminders arrive as WhatsApp voice notes in Arabic or English, the lights follow the five daily prayers, calculated each day for the home’s city, and the family hears about anything that is missed. Watch one simulated day in two homes.
Starting the day…
Calculated in your browser from the sun’s position.
Daily electricity report
In a UAE home the AC is most of the bill. Each morning the family gets a WhatsApp report in Arabic, English or their own language: kWh used, dirhams spent and the device that used the most, with a plan for the day that needs no purchase and honest options for which devices are worth changing. Pick a family, a city and a language.
Preparing yesterday’s report…
Used yesterday
0 units
0 spent
Last 7 days
Hour by hour
By device
No purchase needed. The agent does these through the day; switch off any the family doesn’t want.
Worked out from how this family uses each device, with options. By type and star rating, never by brand.
Sample families with illustrative numbers. Rates: Bengaluru ₹5.80 a unit (domestic energy charge; fixed charges and taxes extra); Abu Dhabi 29.5 fils a kWh (expatriate rate above the first band). AC power falls about 6% for every degree warmer (BEE); a ceiling fan lets the AC sit about 2 °C warmer with the same comfort, and clogged filters can make an AC use 5–15% more, of which we count 5% (US Department of Energy). Ceiling fan 75 W, BLDC fan about 30 W; a 15-litre geyser kept hot all day loses about 0.8 units at 3 stars and under 0.57 at 5 stars (BEE). Switching a heater off is counted at half, because the tank is reheated later, and switching the AC off in an empty room at 60%, because the room is cooled again.
Smart plugs and connected devices report what each one draws and for how long. The agent turns that into units and money, hour by hour.
Every morning on WhatsApp, as a short message and a voice note, in whichever language the family uses: Hindi, Kannada, Arabic or English.
A plan for the day that needs no purchase, then device options with the saving for each. When keeping a device is the better choice, the report says so.
Abu Dhabi pilot
SmartHomeAI already controls a real device in its proof of concept. The UAE work builds on that.
Founding team
The founder relocates to Abu Dhabi in 2027. Technology and UAE operations are led by a co-founder who heads IT at a Dubai insurer, and research by a co-founder in Germany.
Co-founder, Research & AI
Research Assistant, Hochschule Anhalt, Germany
Co-founder, Technology & UAE
Head of Information Technology Department, Dubai Insurance Co.
AI & ML Engineer
MS in Computer Science, Georgia Tech
Software engineer building production AI systems — agents, retrieval and the backend beneath them.
Join the pilot
We are looking for pilot households in Abu Dhabi and partners who want to bring an intelligence layer to Gulf homes.
For your own home, or for your parents’ home in India.
Register interestOffer a home that speaks Arabic and English, across the brands you already sell.
Discuss a partnershipRemote check-ins for older adults, and research on Arabic voice agents in the home.
Start a conversationDr. Milan Amrutkumar Joshi