KB Home Brings Google® Partnership to Southern California
January 18, 2019 at 06:30 pm IST
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KB Home announced that the KB Smart Home System will be offered as a standard feature at two of its Orange County communities: Highmark at Ironridge in Lake Forest and Prado at Cadence Park in Irvine. The KB Smart Home System, which leverages the power of Google Assistant™ to integrate a curated selection of voice- and smartphone-controlled features, will also be available as an option for all buyers who purchase a new KB home at any of the builder’s other communities in Orange and San Diego counties. The KB Smart Home System provides a robust ecosystem that can integrate an ever-expanding selection of compatible smart devices and features, many of which will be available at select KB Home Design Studios. Powered by Google Assistant, homeowners with the KB Smart Home System will be able to control many of the most important functions of their new home and automate routines to their individual preferences to live more comfortably and efficiently. Home shoppers can now tour the homes at Highmark at Ironridge to learn how to control features such as lighting, window shades, cameras and more. The KB Smart Home system features top-of-the-line products and is designed to accommodate additional emerging technologies as they come to market. The components include: Google Wifi “mesh” network that is designed to deliver consistently strong and secure signal throughout the home; Two smart speakers, including a Google Home, and a Google Home Mini, with voice control and automation by Google Assistant; Nest Hello Video Doorbell; Professional installation and integration of all devices for seamless interconnectivity by DISH Smart Home Services after move-in. The KB Smart Home system will be showcased starting Saturday, January 19 at KB Home’s Highmark at Ironwood in Lake Forest, CA. The KB Smart Home is located at 2042 Aliso Canyon Drive in Lake Forest.
KB Home is a homebuilding company. The Company's segments include homebuilding and financial services. The homebuilding segment is engaged in the acquisition and development of land primarily for residential purposes. The Company builds a variety of new homes, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes and condominiums, designed for first-time and first move-up, as well as second move-up and active adult, homebuyers. It offers homes in development communities, at urban in-fill locations and as part of mixed-use projects. The financial services segment offers various insurance products to its homebuyers in the markets where the Company builds homes and provides title services in certain of those markets. Its financial services also provide mortgage banking services, including residential consumer mortgage loan originations, to its homebuyers indirectly through KBHS Home Loans, LLC, an unconsolidated joint venture between the Company and a third party.