Private AI Home Assistant Installation in Tel Aviv

For Estate projects in Tel Aviv

We take on Tel Aviv homes as Estate projects: large apartments, penthouses and houses, often for clients who also keep a home in New York, Miami or London and want one assistant across all of them. We don't have an office in Israel. We do a video walk-through, design and configure the system before we travel, and fly in to commission it. Where local rules require it, the physical installation and any electrical work are done by a locally licensed electrician working to our specification, and we confirm work-permit and visa requirements before we quote.

Built to Israeli standards

Israel uses 230-volt, 50 Hz power, with Type C and Type H sockets, so nothing comes over from the US. We specify hubs, sensors, lighting and climate controls sold for the Israeli market. Wireless standards differ too: Z-Wave, one of the radio systems smart devices use, runs at 916 MHz in Israel, different from both US and European models, so we order the right regional version of every device.

Towers, White City apartments and the mamad

Tel Aviv's housing ranges from the White City, the UNESCO World Heritage site that holds the world's largest concentration of International Style buildings from the 1930s, to the high-rises that began going up in the 1960s and now define the skyline. Older buildings call for wireless devices; towers call for a network that reaches every room.

Every new home in Israel also has a mamad, a protected room required by law in new residential buildings since the early 1990s, with reinforced concrete walls and ceilings and steel doors and windows. That construction often blocks cellular and Wi-Fi signals. We plan coverage for the mamad specifically, typically a wired access point inside it, and put the router, hub and access points on battery backup, so the household can still reach the assistant, the cameras and each other from inside. The assistant is not an alert system: keep the official Home Front Command alerts on everyone's phones.

Long, humid summers

Tel Aviv has a Mediterranean climate: summers last about five months, from June to October, with August averaging highs around 31°C and nights that rarely drop below 20°C, and the sea keeps humidity high. Almost no rain falls from June to September; most of it comes between October and April. In practice, that makes cooling the system that matters most. The assistant can pre-cool rooms before you arrive, alert you if an air conditioner stops cooling while you're away, and watch humidity in closed rooms. Israel also leads the world in rooftop solar water heaters per person; if yours has an electric backup element, the assistant can switch it on before you need hot water and off when you don't.

What we set up

• A private assistant you text from iMessage or WhatsApp, connected to your calendars, email and the house.
• Cooling, leaks and security: climate control, water sensors with automatic shutoff, door and window sensors, and alerts when the home is empty.
• Staff and guest access for a house manager, cleaner or driver, limited to what each person needs, with a log of who did what.
• A hardened network with smart devices kept apart from your computers, and coverage planned for the mamad.

How a Tel Aviv project runs

1. Video walk-through. We look at the home, your devices, the network and how the household runs.
2. Design and quote. We specify Israeli-market equipment, the network and any electrical work, confirm permit and visa requirements, and send a fixed quote including travel.
3. Preparation. A locally licensed electrician completes any wiring to our spec, and we configure the AI computer before we fly.
4. Commissioning visit. We set up the hub, the AI computer and the network, connect your devices and accounts, and train the household and staff.
5. Care. Updates, monitoring and new routines continue remotely under your care plan.

Where your data lives

Every install puts a smart-home hub in the home, running your devices and routines locally. For Tel Aviv clients we recommend Private Home: the AI runs on a dedicated computer in your home, so your household's requests are processed there and nothing goes to a cloud AI service. Private Cloud, our lower-cost tier, uses a private server in a U.S. data center. If your data needs to stay in Israel, choose Private Home. We aren't lawyers and don't advise on data protection rules.

Pricing

Tel Aviv projects are Estate projects, quoted individually in U.S. dollars after the walk-through, with travel included in the quote. For reference, Private Home starts at $24,995 for a single home, with care at $399 a month. See estates and house managers for what an Estate project covers.

To begin, request a video walk-through on our contact form or email hello@kotohhome.com. We reply within one business day.