MIAMI and SEATTLE, June 14,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B), one
of the nation's largest builders, today announced the world's first
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ home designs featuring integrated home automation
and voice control with Amazon Alexa – all a part of Lennar'
signature Everything's Included approach to homebuilding.
Lennar is the first to embrace the new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home
Design™ program announced today by Wi-Fi Alliance®, the
worldwide network of companies that drives the interoperability,
adoption, and evolution of Wi-Fi® globally. Lennar's
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs are powered by Ruckus Wireless to
provide coverage in every room with no dead spots. This allows
buyers to control their lights, front door lock and thermostat
simply by talking to Amazon Alexa. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs
enable today's best smart and streaming products to operate at peak
performance and are ready for the future as new technologies come
to market.
"Amazon and Lennar share a common belief in putting experience
and the customer first. Engineering a home for the connected world
is a natural for Lennar, but bringing it to life with Amazon Alexa
is a game changer," said David
Kaiserman, president of Lennar Ventures. "Now, customers can
see first hand how simple, powerful and affordable a smart home can
be by visiting Lennar communities around the country."
"We're very excited to work with Lennar because we think
customers will love the experience of a move-in-ready smart home
with Alexa," said Daniel Rausch, VP
Smart Home at Amazon. "With Lennar's new homes, customers can start
asking Alexa to turn on and off lights, adjust thermostats, and
more, from the start, making the smart home experience simpler than
ever."
Lennar's homes are the first in the world to be built according
to the new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design standard. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
Home Design brings a standardized approach to new residential Wi-Fi
network design to help ensure whole-home connectivity, with no dead
spots, that works seamlessly with thousands of wireless devices and
services.
"Wi-Fi connects people to each other and the wider world," said
Kevin Robinson, Wi-Fi Alliance vice
president of marketing. "Lennar is to be commended for setting a
new standard in home design and construction with Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
Home Design, bringing professionally designed and preinstalled
Wi-Fi networks to new homes around the country – all under a
program that delivers connectivity, coverage and performance
standards."
Lennar's Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs represent the first broad
residential installation of Ruckus Unleashed™ Wi-Fi access points
and ICX® switching. As a leader in enterprise-grade
Wi-Fi, Ruckus is providing each Lennar home with
high-performance—yet flexible and reliable—Smart Wi-Fi technology.
Ruckus Unleashed™ controller-less Wi-Fi is an affordable wireless
LAN solution that can be deployed in minutes, making it ideal for a
national homebuilder like Lennar, which builds tens of thousands of
homes every year, at an entry-level price that makes it ideal for
residential installation.
"Lennar's bold vision for the future of homebuilding recognizes
the essential role Wi-Fi plays in daily life," said Dan Rabinovitsj, Chief Operating Officer of
Ruckus, a part of Brocade. "Ruckus is proud to connect Lennar
homebuyers to a world of possibility unleashed by powerful
whole-home Wi-Fi at a residential price point that has never been
possible, until now."
During the design of Lennar Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs, every
floor plan is subjected to a rigorous process that includes mapping
Wi-Fi signal strength and quality – taking in to consideration
building materials and other factors that can affect connectivity.
That determines the placement of Ruckus Unleashed access points,
which are built right into the home during construction.
Lennar will begin offering Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs next
month, rolling out to the entirety of its national footprint by
year's end.
Features include:
- The world's first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design – no more dead
spots;
- Voice control by Amazon Alexa;
- Whole-home automation by Samsung SmartThings;
- iOS and Android compatibility;
- Smart home products from the most trusted manufacturers –
including Ring, Honeywell, Baldwin, Kwikset, Lutron, Ruckus and
Sonos;
- White-glove activation and service.
"We live in a connected world, but most existing homes simply
weren't built for that world – leading to frustrating dead spots,"
said Kaiserman. "By engineering state-of-the-art Wi-Fi right into
the design and construction of every new Lennar home the way we do
plumbing and ventilation – and then bringing it to life with Amazon
Alexa – families will be able to enjoy a connected lifestyle to the
fullest."
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's
largest builders of quality homes for all generations. The Company
builds affordable, move-up and retirement homes primarily under the
Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment
provides mortgage financing, title insurance and closing services
for both buyers of the Company's homes and
others. Lennar's Rialto segment is a vertically
integrated asset management platform focused on investing
throughout the commercial real estate capital
structure. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide
developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. Previous
press releases and further information about the Company may be
obtained at the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's
website, www.lennar.com.
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