Aldar’s walled estate of villas and townhouses on the inland side of the E10, built between 2005 and 2009 and now due for an update. We design fan coil climate control, codes for tenants and staff, cameras and Wi-Fi for these homes.
Dubai Smart Home designs home automation in Al Raha Gardens, Aldar’s gated villa and townhouse estate next to Khalifa City A, and runs the project to handover. Most jobs cover fan coil control for the district cooling, door codes for tenants and staff, doorbell and garden cameras, and Wi-Fi that reaches the garden. Single upgrades start from AED 1,500.
In Al Raha Gardens the price follows the home: townhouse or villa, how many fan coil units need new panels, whether there is a pool, and whether the walls are open for a renovation. Full rewires reach AED 350,000.
Al Raha Gardens is a gated Aldar estate of villas and townhouses on the inland side of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Street, the E10, across the road from Al Raha Beach and next to Khalifa City A. Work began in July 2005 and the third and last phase was done by January 2009, giving 1,380 homes on 665,000 sq m. They sit in eleven walled neighbourhoods, among them Yasmina, Samra, Hemaim, Qattouf and Sidra. Homes have three to five bedrooms, Arabian-style fronts, a private garden and covered parking. Some add a maid’s room, a driver’s room or a pool.
Aldar calls it the first freehold development for UAE nationals, so Emirati families own the homes and expat families rent them. Property Finder rates the area highly for families and for retirees. Cooling comes as chilled water from a district network, billed by Tasleem, so the AC inside is fan coil units rather than split units. Provis, Aldar’s estate manager, runs the community. After 17 to 21 years, the original thermostats, intercoms and switch wiring are ready for renewal, and that is most of what smart home installation in Al Raha Gardens involves.
Tasleem’s Al Raha Gardens tariff charges AED 0.299 for each ton-hour of cooling you use, plus AED 83.877 per contracted ton every month. A fan coil thermostat on a schedule trims the first charge. Nothing trims the second, and we say so before we quote.
The first homes here went up from 2005, so switch boxes, door intercoms and control panels are close to twenty years old. At the survey we open boxes to look for a neutral wire and check the board, rather than piling new devices onto old circuits blind.
Expats cannot buy here, so many villas are let, and Bayut’s 2025 report put the Al Raha Gardens villa yield at 6.20%. A keypad lock lets the owner delete the last tenant’s code and issue a new one from a phone, with no locksmith between leases.
Bayut lists maid’s rooms and driver’s rooms in some of these homes, either inside the house or beside it. A separate code for each member of staff opens only the doors their job needs, logs each entry and can be cancelled in seconds.
The estate is walled, with 24-hour security at its entry gates. That covers the perimeter, not your front door, driveway or back garden. A video doorbell and one or two garden cameras watch the home itself, pointed at your own plot and away from the neighbours.
Every home has its own garden, and some villas have a private pool, while residents have long said the estate has no shared one. Irrigation zones water before sunrise from an app, and a pool controller runs the pump and lights on timers while the family is out.
Plug-in devices need no approval. For wired or outside work, we check the contractor rules with Provis at the survey; structural changes also need a DMT permit through TAMM.
Every service we offer, and what each one looks like in a Al Raha Gardens home.
The same hardware we specify for homes here, with UAE prices. Buy it yourself, or ask us to arrange professional fitting and configure it for you.
