Information and communication technology group Huawei has launched an intelligent home in the Bo-Kaap neighbourhood, in the Western Cape.

The All-Optical Intelligent home, powered by Huawei’s fibre-to-the-room solution (FTTR F50), boasts more than 100 Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including smart lights, speakers, kettles, cameras and sweeping robots.

The home showcases how the FTTR solution can transform ordinary homes into digitally capable spaces and how easily modern homes with complex layouts can achieve consistent coverage with innovative customer-friendly adhesive fibre cables.

The intelligent show house can run up to 128 IoT devices on a single network at the same time, while the enterprise alternative can have up to 300 simultaneous connections.

Once installed, the FTTR solution ensures that speeds of up to 1 Gb/s are achieved consistently across the home’s WiFi network, creating a seamless digital experience for the entire home, while the LinkHome app enables homeowners to manage and troubleshoot a range of home activities and services from remote locations, including more efficient use of power and ease of control from a mobile smartphone.

FTTR F50 makes stable connections available at a consistent speed using an “almost impossible-to-spot”, thin, transparent cable, and Huawei’s adhesive fibre cable, called the self-bounding transparent fibre, seamlessly fits into the design aesthetic of any home and can easily be installed without the need for power tools and home remodelling.

“Sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly seeing an increase in demand for FTTR solutions. People want more than entry-level speeds of 10 Mb/s to 50 Mb/s as several countries officially launched Gigabit services,” Hauwei points out.

“In places like South Africa, Mauritius and Kenya, users know that higher speeds will deliver better experiences; however, in-home WiFi coverage is also a challenge many contend with. Huawei’s FTTR, with a main and a sub-FTTR set, eliminates the issue of WiFi dead zones, bringing coverage to every corner of the house, its cottages, home office and even pool houses.”

If the fibre to the home provides 100 Mb/s or 1 Gb/s speeds, the FTTR F50 enables users to make the most of these speeds in every room without any compromise.