Clever. Creative. Smart.
You bring your home automation vision. We bring the smarts to design simple, efficient & sophisticated solutions that fit your lifestyle.
Why choose Smart Habitat?
Smart Habitat founder, Paul, knows first-hand what it’s like integrating smart home technology into a building project, having designed a smart ecosystem for his own home renovation.
During his renovation journey, Paul discovered there were too many home automation products with varying standards and integration requirements, but not enough impartial, expert support to simplify and demystify choices for the end-user.
This experience was the inspiration for Smart Habitat.
As a homeowner, Paul understands how the process and requirements impact decisions and outcomes. As a qualified and practising Electrical Engineer & Technology Strategist, he decodes jargon and facilitates desired user experience while assessing energy utilisation and home automation solutions. The balance of useability, cost, capability and availability are key to achieve a streamlined integration.
Paul combines his expertise with his passion for matching your lifestyle requirements to the most suitable, easy-to-use technology available.
Smart Habitat stays up to date with new technology trends, products and applications, with a special interest in seamless technology integration and water/energy efficiency.
What you get when you work with Paul & Smart Habitat:
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An impartial guide, whatever stage your project is at: Whether you’re at concept stage, in the middle of your reno and want a second opinion, or you need someone to troubleshoot problems at the end of your project, we can help.
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A proven Technology Strategist: Get clear, realistic assessment of your ideas and needs, plus jargon-free advice to take you from concept to design effectively and efficiently.
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A practical Product Owner: Unbiased product & feature recommendations from design to integration, so your smart system functions the way you want.
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A focused Project Manager: Ensure design, integration and compliance are complete and that you fully understand how your smart home operates.
We service the Sydney metropolitan area in person, and we can serve you online, Australia wide.
Our story
With an Electrical Engineering degree, Smart Habitat founder, Paul, has more than 20 years’ experience in technology strategy and systems engineering, working on complex and diverse projects in telecommunications and IT infrastructure.
Through this work, he came to understand the importance of matching user needs to technology with easily understood functionality. Paul’s focus has always been to align the tech with its users, from strategy to creating solutions, through to integration and operations.
Smart home environments are no different.
“What impressed us most was the process that Paul followed to understand the requirements … the report provided by Smart Habitat covered a range of options and the recommended product … to ensure the services design incorporated the recommendations and know with confidence that our home will have compatible setup going forward into the future.”
“We engaged Smart Habitat to provide implementation strategy for an off-grid, sustainable luxury home.
We liked the style of the report providing “call out” sections with clear actions that we could tick-off when done. This avoided the need to distill the recommendations into action….”
“Paul from Smart Habitat is very knowledgeable and provided some great insights into what to consider when selecting PV and battery systems.“