LH Holds Award Ceremony for Smart Home Mobile App Design Contest

Published 28 Apr.2023 14:08(KST)

Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announced on the 28th that it held an awards ceremony for the mobile app design contest conducted in March to develop a dedicated smart home mobile app for rental housing.

A total of 22 entries were submitted for this contest, and after evaluations by internal and external experts, LH added the results of an online vote reflecting public preference to select a total of four winning works. One team received the Gold Prize, one team the Silver Prize, and two teams the Bronze Prize, with prize money of 4 million KRW, 2.5 million KRW, and 1 million KRW respectively.

At the award ceremony of the Smart Home Mobile App Design Contest held on the 28th at the LH Seoul Regional Headquarters, Lee Tak-hoon, Head of the Public Housing Business Headquarters at LH (sixth from the left in the first row), and Park Jong-wook, Director of the Public Housing Electrical Department (third from the left in the first row), are taking a commemorative photo with the awardees.
[Photo by LH]

LH plans to actively incorporate the selected works and the diverse and innovative ideas submitted in the contest into the development of the LH smart home platform. Additionally, the rental housing smart home mobile app is scheduled to be completed by September and launched by the end of this year.

The LH smart home mobile app allows convenient control of devices such as lighting, heating, and gas within the household, as well as easy access to information closely related to daily life, including complex-related notices, management fee inquiries, energy usage monitoring, and health lifestyle information.

In particular, a solitary death prevention service is provided for single elderly households aged 65 and over. It analyzes daily energy usage such as water and gas within the household and supports safe living by sending emergency alerts to the smart home app and management office when abnormal signs occur, detected through movement sensing, front door entry detection, and mobile phone non-use detection.

Lee Tak-hoon, Head of LH Public Housing Business Headquarters, said, “We hope this contest will be a good opportunity to expand LH rental housing smart home services and foster public empathy.”