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Under its Smart HDB Town Framework (2014), the Housing & Development Board fits new public-housing flats with "smart-enabled" infrastructure — smart distribution boards and extra power and data points — so residents can opt in to commercial smart-home services, including sensors that monitor an elderly relative's movement and alert family or carers if irregular patterns are detected.
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It was piloted from 2015 in the existing Yuhua estate (about 3,200 flats)
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built into new towns such as Punggol Northshore (about 1,400 smart-enabled flats, completed 2020) and Tengah.
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Estate-wide features add sensor-controlled common-area lighting, pneumatic-waste and utility monitoring.
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HDB reported that a year-long 2013 pilot of a home energy management system in Punggol cut residents' monthly energy consumption by 20%.
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Since late 2024, town councils have been replacing about 300,000 end-of-life LED lights in HDB estates with smart LED lighting, which HDB says can cut lighting energy by up to 60% compared with conventional LEDs.
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Singapore split the job: the housing board builds the digital infrastructure into the flat, commercial firms sell the services, and residents decide whether to use them
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in Yuhua the in-home trial began with ten households, while estate-wide sensors covered all 3,194 flats at once.
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src-5390362e9d76efa8HDB's announcement of the Smart HDB Town Framework: digital infrastructure in flats so residents can use commercial smart-home applications, such as an elderly alert system that warns caregivers of irregular movement; smart common-area lighting and a sensor-fitted pneumatic waste system for new developments; a 2013 Punggol home-energy pilot that cut monthly energy use by 20%.
src-e3a0bc021c9577a1Yuhua pilot: some 9,000 residents in 3,194 flats; smart features rolled out from July 2015 to 2018; an in-home trial with 10 households (elderly monitoring, home energy and water management); estate sensors on the pneumatic waste system, electrical sub-meters, remote water meters and solar panels on 29 blocks.
src-23f57fbc0e3f6d5bSmart Elderly Monitoring & Alert System: opt-in, test-bedded in 12 HDB rental flats (2014)
src-96bcf5ae6b083a7cThe first smart-enabled HDB flats, 1,400 homes in Punggol Northshore, go on sale in the May 2015 BTO exercise, with infrastructure for home energy management and elderly monitoring.
src-1dfe4d23f673c638Completion of the first smart-enabled BTO flats at Northshore Residences I and II in Punggol Northshore, with sensor-controlled common-area lighting.
src-d84f7a8da4f6e3daCompletion of Northshore Residences I and II: the first HDB flats with smart distribution boards and an additional power and data point to monitor appliance electricity use and support commercial smart-home solutions; motion sensors and analytics adjust common-area lighting.
src-4d788e00fbc1f9dcTengah is the first HDB town planned with town-wide smart technologies, guided by HDB's Smart Town Framework; the Plantation Edge flats come with smart-enabled homes, smart common-area lighting and a smart pneumatic waste conveyance system.
src-61107a09b7a2ee20Status annex of the HDB Green Towns Programme: smart LED lighting can reduce lighting energy by up to 60% compared with conventional LEDs; since late 2024 town councils have begun replacing about 300,000 end-of-life LED lights with smart LED lighting; smart electrical sub-meters in block switch rooms from the second quarter of 2025.