SmartRent
AI smart home and property management platform for apartment communities with self-guided tours, access control, and IoT automation.
What it does
SmartRent is an IoT and smart home platform for residential property management - providing smart locks, thermostats, sensors, and connected devices for multifamily apartment communities alongside property management software for access control, self-guided tours, and utility management. AI capabilities include AI-powered self-guided tour automation that enables prospects to tour units without leasing agents through smart lock access and guided digital experiences, intelligent access control that manages resident, staff, and vendor access through connected smart locks, ML energy management that optimizes HVAC settings in vacant units to reduce utility costs, predictive maintenance that detects issues from IoT sensor data before residents report them, and property analytics that surface occupancy, energy, and maintenance trends.
Why AI-ENHANCED
SmartRent is an established IoT property technology platform that has integrated AI self-guided tour automation, intelligent energy management, and predictive maintenance into a mature smart home and multifamily property management product.
Best for
Mid-market apartment operators use SmartRent for smart home technology - AI self-guided tours reducing leasing agent workload and IoT energy management reducing utility costs in vacant units.
Large multifamily REITs and national apartment operators use SmartRent for enterprise smart building technology - AI access control across thousands of units and predictive maintenance reducing maintenance response costs.
Limitations
SmartRent requires installing smart locks, thermostats, and sensors across apartment units — the hardware installation cost and logistics add significant investment beyond software licensing.
SmartRent is built for apartment communities — commercial real estate, single-family, and hospitality have different smart building requirements and better-suited platforms.
Latch and Brivo offer competing smart access control for multifamily — operators should compare hardware quality, software feature depth, and property management system integrations.
Alternatives by segment
| If you need… | Consider instead |
|---|---|
| Smart building access control | Latch |
| Property management platform | Yardi |
| Multifamily leasing and management | Realpage |
SmartRent pricing per unit per month. Hardware priced separately. Not published. Mid-market and enterprise contracts negotiated. Annual contracts.
