The Gate Towers and Sun and Sky Towers on Al Reem Island, cooled by Tabreed and home to professionals, investors and short-stay guests. We plan fan coil thermostats, locks that reset between lets, motorised blinds and Wi-Fi for every room, and coordinate the work.
Dubai Smart Home designs home automation in Shams Abu Dhabi, the Sorouh-built tower district on Al Reem Island, and coordinates the job. Most jobs cover fan coil thermostats for Tabreed district cooling, smart locks that reset between tenants or guests, motorised blinds for high-floor glass and mesh Wi-Fi. Single upgrades start from AED 1,500.
What moves the price here: whether your tower runs on Tabreed fan coils, how many windows face the water, and whether the flat is let to guests. Duplex penthouses with private pools sit at the top of the range.
Shams Abu Dhabi is the district Sorouh Real Estate built on Al Reem Island, about 600 metres off Abu Dhabi Island. Sorouh merged into Aldar in 2013, and Aldar manages the district today. Sun Tower and Sky Tower came first, finished in 2010 and handed over from early 2011. They were among the first towers in the capital to sell freehold flats to non-Emiratis. The three Gate Towers followed, joined at the top by a sky bridge, with the lower Arc beside them. Oceanscape, Parkside Residence and Meera Shams complete the list, and the Shams Boutik mall has a Waitrose for the weekly shop.
Those towers shape smart home installation in Shams Abu Dhabi. Property Finder’s resident profiles for Gate Tower 1, Sky Tower and Oceanscape put working professionals at 86% or more and families at 10% or less. Flats change tenants often, and some are let to short-stay guests. Tabreed’s S&T Cool plant chills the Gate Towers, The Arc, Sun and Sky Towers and Shams Boutik, so your AC is a fan coil in the ceiling. Most of these buildings went up between 2009 and 2014, before smart homes were common. So we plan around what each flat already has, and the work stays inside it.
Tabreed’s S&T Cool plant serves the Gate Towers, The Arc, Sun and Sky Towers and Shams Boutik by name. Your AC is a fan coil unit, so Nest and Ecobee cannot run it. A fan coil thermostat on a schedule trims the usage charge, while the fixed capacity charge stays the same.
A Gate Tower resident who loved the pools, gyms and cinema still named one big drawback: the windows cannot be opened. With no breeze to fall back on, the fan coil does all the work. Scheduled cooling, an air quality sensor and a purifier keep a sealed flat comfortable.
Serviced apartments in Gate Tower already sell self check-in through a smart lock. Across the district, flats change tenants often and some host short-stay guests. A code lock gives each tenant, cleaner or guest a separate code, and you cancel it from your phone when they leave.
The Gate Towers rise past 60 floors and Sky Tower reaches 80, with open water below and little nearby to cast shade. Motorised blinds close before the fiercest sun and open again for the evening view. Their tracks fix inside the flat, because the glass belongs to the building.
A Sky Tower resident wrote that the fire alarm was usually false, but she still pictured 57 flights of stairs while nine months pregnant. The building’s fire system stays untouched. A smart smoke sensor and leak sensors in your own flat tell your phone whether the trouble is inside your home.
Towers this tall are built around thick concrete cores, and hundreds of neighbouring routers share the same airwaves. Far bedrooms and home offices often lose signal. One or two mesh points, placed after a room-by-room test, keep locks, thermostats and video calls online.
Often, from your tower’s management, and from your landlord if you rent. Al Reem Island falls under ADGM, so we confirm your building’s current rules before anyone arrives.
Every service we offer, and what each one looks like in a Shams Abu Dhabi 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.
