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SwitchBee appoints D Tech as ‘Smart Home’ systems sole distributor for Sri Lanka

30 Jun 2017 - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}      

From left: D Tech (Pvt.) Ltd Head of Presales and Solutions Enterprise Services Srimal Rajapaksha, D Tech (Pvt.) Ltd Chief Operating Officer Sean Fernando, D Tech (Pvt.) Ltd Managing Director Kasun Rajapaksa and DSI Samson Group Management Representative Nelani Rajapaksa

 

 

 

 

D Tech (Pvt.) Ltd was appointed as the sole distributor for ‘Smart Home’ systems by SwitchBee, a leading electronics consumer company for Internet of things (IoT) solutions in Israel. 
With this collaboration, D Tech takes a step in the journey to make the Smart Home products easy to use and affordable for everybody, with a clear vision of the future, where people will take complete control of their homes with a single touch on their smartphones. It is the initial phase to the follow-up solutions in the pipeline, namely, Smart Building and Smart City.
The affordable Smart Home transformed through the IoT technology is now within reach of home owners and D Tech together with SwitchBee is committed in delivering its unique solution to all Sri Lankan consumers. Controlling everything with a mere dashboard app on a smartphone, IoT enables customers to remotely control and monitor their homes and digital devices anytime, from anywhere. 
In a Smart Home, customers could ensure home security, check on kids and family, switch lights on and off and get security alerts including activating of sound and movement sensors, all on the go, providing greater flexibility and peace of mind. 
SwitchBee Smart Home solutions are simple, modular and versatile with inbuilt lightning and surge protection and are virtually maintenance free. It makes it so easy for the user since there is no need for changing your home wiring system or infrastructure. All it takes is replacing the switches and plug bases with a SwitchBee system for which only a screwdriver is required.
By using the SwitchBee app, people can personalize their lighting by dimming lights in stages, regulating air conditioners, controlling electrical appliances, door locks, ceiling fans, automatic windows, shades and curtains, which are all part of the Smart Home advantages.
“With SwitchBee Smart Homes, we challenge the perception that an IoT solution is complicated and expensive,” stated D Tech (Pvt.) Ltd Managing Director Kasun Rajapaksa.
“D Tech sees a great potential in the smart home business and in years to come, we envisage that smart home technology should be accessible to everybody.”
He added, “SwitchBee has developed an innovative technology that allows conversion of a typical house into a smart home at an affordable price thanks to an attractive price structure designed to suit the needs of the Sri Lankan market. Our Smart technology does not demand that customers convert their entire house into a smart home all at once, but enables them to convert only a room at a time according to their budgets and gradually expand.” 
D Tech (Pvt.) Ltd is one of the fastest growing enterprise solution provider in Sri Lanka ventured by D.S.I. Samson Group, specializing in a wide variety of IT and business-related services including business intelligence, augmented reality solutions, networking and ICT infrastructure, IT consultancy and project management services. The company is headquartered in Colombo Sri Lanka with its sales and service centre located in Havelock Town, Colombo 5.