Visit to KAUST’s smart home

Grade 5 students visited KAUST’s ‘smart’ home, which is part of the Smart City Living Lab – a four-bedroom villa which has been redesigned to showcase a more sustainable way of living.  The project is a collaboration between 8 local KAUST start-ups and will provide useful data for future implementations. The students learnt about the latest technology in water preservation and how the home is partly cooled through geothermal energy and were posed questions such as “What is a LEED Certification?”, “How does geothermal energy work?”, and ‘What does a net-zero energy home mean?”.