{"id":13875,"date":"2017-06-14T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2019-06-19T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:03:53","slug":"lennar-launches-worlds-first-wi-fi-certified-smart-home-designs-amazon-alexa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsung-smartthing-lennar-launches-worlds-first-wi-fi-certified-smart-home-designs-amazon-alexa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennar Launches World\u2019s First Wi-Fi CERTIFIED\u2122 Smart Home Designs with Amazon Alexa"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI\/SEATTLE – June 14, 2017 \u2013<\/strong> <\/span>Lennar<\/strong> (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B), one of the nation\u2019s largest builders, today announced the world\u2019s first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED\u2122 home designs featuring integrated home automation and voice control with Amazon Alexa \u2013 all a part of Lennar\u2019 signature Everything\u2019s Included approach to homebuilding.
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Lennar is the first to embrace the new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design\u2122 program announced today by Wi-Fi Alliance\u00ae, the worldwide network of companies that drives the interoperability, adoption, and evolution of Wi-Fi\u00ae globally. Lennar\u2019s 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\u2019s best smart and streaming products to operate at peak performance and is ready for the future as new technologies come to market.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmazon 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,\u201d said David Kaiserman, president of Lennar Ventures.<\/strong> \u201cNow, customers can see first hand how simple, powerful and affordable a smart home can be by visiting Lennar communities around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to work with Lennar to integrate Alexa into their Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design program,\u201d said Daniel Rausch, vice president of Alexa Smart Home for Amazon.<\/strong> \u201cWe\u2019ve seen tremendous interest from our Alexa customers in controlling more aspects of their smart home through Alexa, and Lennar makes that easier for customers by seamlessly integrating devices that Work with Amazon Alexa into their Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lennar\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWi-Fi connects people to each other and the wider world,\u201d said Kevin Robinson, Wi-Fi Alliance vice president of marketing.<\/strong> \u201cLennar 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 \u2013 all under a program that delivers connectivity, coverage and performance standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lennar\u2019s Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs represent the first broad residential installation of Ruckus Unleashed\u2122 Wi-Fi access points and ICX\u00ae switching. As a leader in enterprise-grade Wi-Fi, Ruckus is providing each Lennar home with high-performance\u2014yet flexible and reliable\u2014Smart Wi-Fi technology. Ruckus Unleashed\u2122 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cLennar\u2019s bold vision for the future of homebuilding recognizes the essential role Wi-Fi plays in daily life,\u201d said Dan Rabinovitsj, Chief Operating Officer of Ruckus, a part of Brocade.<\/strong> \u201cRuckus 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

Lennar will begin offering Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs next month, rolling out to the entirety of its national footprint by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

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