Press Release
The Intexact Story - 2003/08/18

Intexact specializes in personalized solutions for Intelligent Homes. The company was started by Fanny and Stephen. Their vision was to create a home where every device was connected to not only make their lives easier, but set up to evolve 360 degrees around themselves and cater to their specific individual needs. What they've ended up with is a home so intelligent that it actually listens and responds to their every need.

The story all started in 2001, when Steven and Fanny bought a luxury 3 story house in Hong Kong. They found that there were some vendors providing automation or control systems, but no service company actually put it all together into an all-in-one seamless system. Nor catered for individual needs. So they created their own perfect Intelligent Home. You can't get more personal than that. All of the home's communications, electrical appliances, computer networks, lighting, entertainment features, security and climate control are integrated into a single system that you can control from just about anywhere in the home. From fingerprint recognition to being able to listen to songs or watch movies in every room in the house, the technology is designed with only one thing in mind....the home owner and his family.

Stephen explains, "Our difference is that, unlike some companies, we are really not selling a customer some high-tech hardware; in fact, we don't even own and sell any hardware. We are creators of a whole new personal experience in the home. For the first time, the technology revolves around the home owner and his family, rather than the other way round where the home owner has to run his life around the gadgets he bought." Now you can remotely set the climate control of your house from your computer at work, and your favorite music plays when you enter the door, while lights dim or brighten to your mood.

How did they make it possible? Fanny and Stephen used the latest available technologies, and designed a system platform with a unique interface that allows everything to talk to one another. "By uniting everything in the home into an all-in-one system IHS, the home owner doesn't have to fumble with a dozen different remote controls. Life is easier, because it is tailored around your needs and lets you use your time to relax and enjoy yourself, instead of running around the house trying to find things," says Fanny. One of the must-have cool things in their home is the Intelligent Telephony System that always directs phone calls to where you are, and that consolidates all telephone, e-mail, fax and mobile messages into one place where you can view all of your messages. Your emails are even read out to you, on the room speakers or over the telephone (if you are accessing your messages from outside).

The intelligent home is not only smart, it is also invisible. On the surface, almost nothing has that "space age" techy feel. For example, the family is surrounded by a security system that you don't feel but you know it's there. The system will tell you if there is an intruder, and it can tell you exactly where the intruder is. It even takes the appropriate action to protect you. No more surprises. Fanny adds, "For families of today this is very important. I've known many friends with security systems installed, and they are forced to live with the system's quirks and demands in order to be protected. Our system extends its protective net without being seen or felt, it works for us and suits our needs instead of the other way round."

Fanny and Stephen found that there are a lot of like-minded discerning individuals out there and decided to start Intexact. Their ingenuity has led them to develop not only a first in terms of lifestyle, but a breakthrough in their software's ability to use an open platform that allows all of these systems from different manufacturers to digitally talk to one another. Intexact's patent pending system is expected to receive a patent within the next month.

The invention marks a major achievement for Hong Kong as it is entirely locally developed without multinational backing. It's also serves as a major confidence boost and builder for HK's reputation as an innovation center. What's more, because Intexact is completely home grown, everything works perfectly for HK conditions.

"We found that after we had created HK's first true Intelligent home, the interest from friends and colleagues has been phenomenal," explains Steven. The news has spread through Asia. So much so that the company is also establishing a branch in Taiwan. "You couldn't find a better embracer of new technologies than Taiwan," says Tony Huang who heads up Taipei's operations.

Intexact uses a flexible, open platform interface so that the system can always incorporate the latest technologies, gadgets and add-ons. The company promises a unique class of service that is unmatched when it comes to understanding the individual needs of the affluent home owner. Tony Huang says, "If you are very well off, it begins with an understanding of who you are, addressing you as a person, anticipating your needs, then matching those needs with technology that you can feel at home with. The system will know you personally, not the other way round. Intexact is part of your family. It's not passive. It actually lives with you and reacts to your needs."

Interestingly, the system that they have invented has not only attracted home owners. Several companies are also talking to Intexact. Hotels especially can benefit by giving their guests an unparalleled level of personalized service.

All homes are increasingly becoming connected. Intexact just seems to be ahead because it has both got it all to work together before anyone else and done it a way that makes living so much more enjoyable.