Yandex agreed with MR Group on the introduction of Alice in new buildings
Assistant based on artificial intelligence « Yandex » (MOOEX: YDEX) Alice will order passes, control the intercom and video surveillance cameras in the new buildings of the developer MR Group. The company expects to occupy a third of the market integration market in new buildings by 2030. The market for such services is estimated at 20 billion rubles. And its participants are waiting for the growth of competition when they come to him with similar solutions “Sber”, VK, MTS, and other IT companies with their own ecosystems.
Yandex launched a pilot project with the developer of MR Group, in which the vocal assistant of the company, Alice, will be integrated into the LCD SLAVA (Moscow), they told Kommersant in the company, adding that the work is being carried out together with the Skolkovo smart residential complex (Skolkovo resident). As explained in the company, integration will allow residents to accept the intercom’s calls with the help of Alice, view common house cameras, order electronic passes, etc. According to the representative of Yandex, by 2030, the volume of the digital services market for the building infrastructure will reach about 20 billion rubles. And the company expects to occupy a third of this market.
According to the “Unified Information System of Housing Construction”, the share of MR Group in the construction area in Moscow is 6.31% of the market; The first three peak with 11.81%, the “plane” with 7.58%and A101 – 6.56%.
The fact that Yandex intends to start discussing the integration of his voice assistant into residential complexes was reported by RBC in mid -April. The design and integration process affects almost all engineering systems of buildings, the work algorithm of which must be taken into account at all stages of design and construction, the representative of MR Group said. “In the development market, far from everyone is represented by digital capabilities and are often limited to dispatch, manually managed,” he notes, adding that, in addition to Yandex, he develops a similar direction of Sberes, also “can also be expected by other ecosystem market participants, such as VK, T-Bank, MEGAFON, MTS, etc.”. They did not answer Kommersant.
In addition to new buildings, the representative of Yandex continues, the company plans to implement projects to integrate its technologies into the infrastructure of the secondary market buildings. In particular, in June, a pilot project starts with the “Our House” platform and the Sputnik intercom operator. At the first stage, about 200 thousand owners of the Sputnik intercom in 214 cities of the Russian Federation, including in Kazan, Kaliningrad, etc. will be able to manage the intercom through Alice.
Digitalization has become an important part of modern business processes, the field of development is no exception: more and more developers integrate modern digital solutions into their projects, emphasizes the general director of the Development Group of Companies Sergey Goncharov. “The introduction of such technologies ceases to be the privilege of premium houses-often the Smart House system also appears in standard LCD segments“ Comfort ”and“ Business ”,” he said, adding that the Development Group of Companies also intends to integrate digital technologies into its LCD, but whether it will not specify it. Mr. Goncharov believes that the introduction of such systems may be a way to attract buyers of apartments.
