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AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Jun 14, 2017) – Wi-Fi Alliance® is introducing a certification program that brings professionally designed, builder-installed Wi-Fi® networks to new homes, delivering a great user experience throughout the whole home. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design™ brings enterprise design practices for planning and installing Wi-Fi networks to the new home construction industry, resulting in consistent whole-home coverage and an exceptional Wi-Fi experience from the day the home owner moves in. In the same way that new homes are constructed with well-planned lighting and electrical schemes, home buyers will now benefit from integrated Wi-Fi networks that set a new standard in home network design and installation.
Wi-Fi Home Design provides home builders with an industry-approved network installation plan based on exacting Wi-Fi deployment guidelines. The guidelines define criteria for access point (APs) placement to eliminate dead spots and deliver strong Wi-Fi coverage throughout the entire home and outdoor spaces, including garages and patios. Wi-Fi Home Design enables reliable connections in home environments with many client devices and provides great integration with connected smart home products including Wi-Fi voice-activated wireless speakers, security cameras, door locks, light bulbs, thermostats, and appliances. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ APs are required, ensuring high-performance, security, and interoperability.
“We are committed to a great user experience for our Wi-Fi fans in all areas of their lives, and we now bring our expertise in developing certification programs to residential home Wi-Fi network design,” said Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance. “Homes that are certified for Wi-Fi Home Design provide whole-home Wi-Fi coverage with professionally designed networks that are ready for demanding applications.”
Companies spanning Wi-Fi infrastructure, mobile device, consumer electronics, smart home, and home building industries worked in Wi-Fi Alliance to define criteria for Wi-Fi Home Design. The requirements consider the increasing number of smart home devices expected in homes over the next decade, and the growing demand for data-intensive usages such as virtual reality and simultaneous 4K video streams. Wi-Fi Home Design will scale to accommodate both the growth in Wi-Fi devices and high-bandwidth applications.
Lennar, one of the largest U.S. homebuilders, is the first to offer new homes featuring Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design. Lennar has announced that next month they will begin offering Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design as a standard feature as part of its Everything’s Included program — which also includes smart home technology and wireless entertainment powered by some of the world’s top consumer brands.
“Reliable whole-home Wi-Fi is as essential to the way people live today as central air conditioning,” said David J. Kaiserman, president of Lennar Ventures. “Wi-Fi Home Design sets an unmatched standard for residential Wi-Fi networks that assures homebuyers their new home will allow them to enjoy a truly connected lifestyle — with smart devices that enhance security and comfort, streaming entertainment or whatever the future holds.”
For more information on Wi-Fi Home Design please visit: www.wi-fi.org/wi-fi-home-design
Response to Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design:
“CableLabs is excited about the rollout of the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design certification program, as it will help bring Enterprise-class Wi-Fi performance to the home. A major focus of ours is standardized Internet service delivery to and throughout the home and this program gives new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design homeowners a professionally designed Wi-Fi network.” – Josh Redmore, Lead Architect for Wireless at CableLabs
“With home appliances all getting smarter, well-planned Wi-Fi coverage throughout the home is now a necessity for a good user experience of the Smart Home. Wi-Fi Home Design sets the standard which will benefit the entire industry.” – Miao Wang, Standard & Patent Director, Haier
“With the rapid adoption of smart devices, homeowners appreciate reliable Wi-Fi performance throughout their homes. As a manufacturer of state-of-the-art lighting controls, we support the Wi-Fi Alliance certification program to assure a high quality customer experience.” – Daryoush Larizadeh, president and chief operating officer, Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
“Wi-Fi Home Design provides new home network installations with reliable Wi-Fi coverage and performance to give a great user experience throughout the entire home. Ruckus has been closely involved in the development of the certification program because we see tremendous value in leveraging our enterprise design experience and applying it to the connected home, providing a strong foundation to enable the Smart Home of the future.” – Steve Martin, CTO, Ruckus, a part of Brocade
About Wi-Fi Alliance®
www.wi-fi.org
Wi-Fi Alliance® is the worldwide network of companies that brings you Wi-Fi®. Members of our collaboration forum come together from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem with the shared vision to connect everyone and everything, everywhere, while providing the best possible user experience. Since 2000, Wi-Fi Alliance has certified more than 35,000 Wi-Fi products. The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ seal of approval designates products with proven interoperability, backward compatibility, and the highest industry-standard security protections in place. Today, Wi-Fi carries more than half of the internet’s traffic in an ever-expanding variety of applications. Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive the adoption and evolution of Wi-Fi, which billions of people rely on every day.
MIAMI/SEATTLE (June 14, 2017) – Lennar (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B), one of the nation’s largest builders, today announced the world’s first Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ home designs featuring integrated home automation and voice control with Amazon Alexa – all a part of Lennar’ signature Everything’s Included approach to homebuilding.
Lennar is the first to embrace the new Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Home Design™ program announced today by Wi-Fi Alliance®, the worldwide network of companies that drives the interoperability, adoption, and evolution of Wi-Fi® globally. Lennar’s 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’s best smart and streaming products to operate at peak performance and are ready for the future as new technologies come to market.
“Amazon 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,” said David Kaiserman, president of Lennar Ventures. “Now, customers can see first hand how simple, powerful and affordable a smart home can be by visiting Lennar communities around the country.”
“We’re very excited to work with Lennar because we think customers will love the experience of a move-in-ready smart home with Alexa,” said Daniel Rausch, VP Smart Home at Amazon. “With Lennar’s new homes, customers can start asking Alexa to turn on and off lights, adjust thermostats, and more, from the start, making the smart home experience simpler than ever.”
Lennar’s 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.
“Wi-Fi connects people to each other and the wider world,” said Kevin Robinson, Wi-Fi Alliance vice president of marketing. “Lennar 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 – all under a program that delivers connectivity, coverage and performance standards.”
Lennar’s Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs represent the first broad residential installation of Ruckus Unleashed™ Wi-Fi access points and ICX® switching. As a leader in enterprise-grade Wi-Fi, Ruckus is providing each Lennar home with high-performance—yet flexible and reliable—Smart Wi-Fi technology. Ruckus Unleashed™ 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.
“Lennar’s bold vision for the future of homebuilding recognizes the essential role Wi-Fi plays in daily life,” said Dan Rabinovitsj, Chief Operating Officer of Ruckus, a part of Brocade. “Ruckus 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.”
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 – 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.
Lennar will begin offering Wi-Fi CERTIFIED home designs next month, rolling out to the entirety of its national footprint by year’s end.
“We live in a connected world, but most existing homes simply weren’t built for that world – leading to frustrating dead spots,” said Kaiserman. “By engineering state-of-the-art Wi-Fi right into the design and construction of every new Lennar home the way we do plumbing and ventilation – and then bringing it to life with Amazon Alexa – families will be able to enjoy a connected lifestyle to the fullest.”
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation’s largest builders of quality homes for all generations. The Company builds affordable, move-up and retirement homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar’s Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title insurance and closing services for both buyers of the Company’s homes and others. Lennar’s Rialto segment is a vertically integrated asset management platform focused on investing throughout the commercial real estate capital structure. Lennar’s Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. Previous press releases and further information about the Company may be obtained at the “Investor Relations” section of the Company’s website, www.lennar.com.
