Dubai AI Home Deal Puts BMTC in the Integrator Seat

BMTC has secured the system integrator role for CASABOT’s AI Home across the UAE, a commercial appointment that pairs a 58-year-old building technology supplier with a home intelligence platform founded in 2025 and already live in seven countries. The deal places Bahri & Mazroei Trading Co. (BMTC), part of the Dubai-based Bahri & Mazroei Group, in charge of designing, specifying, installing, commissioning and supporting CASABOT’s residential and hotel installations throughout the Emirates.

For CASABOT, the appointment follows its partner-led commercial model, under which system integrators carry design, installation and on-site support for every project. That structure pushes the cost of delivery and the client relationship onto established local operators. BMTC brings considerable weight to the role. The company has supplied landmark projects including Burj Khalifa, Dubai Metro and Dubai International Airport, and sits within a Group that operates showrooms across the UAE. BMTC’s Learning Academy in Dubai, where the system was first demonstrated to the Group’s teams earlier this year, will double as the training ground for BMTC’s technical teams.

The commercial centrepiece is the BMTC AI Home Innovation Hub, a permanent, fully installed AI Home at BMTC’s Port Saeed headquarters in Dubai, due to open in October 2026. The companies describe it as the world’s first venue of its kind. It is conceived as a live residence rather than a product display: visitors speak to the home, move through it and watch lighting, climate, security and entertainment respond as one system. Unlike AI in the smart-home market so far, which has sat inside single-brand ecosystems and run on fixed schedules, the Hub’s installation works across brands, responds to voice, app and augmented-reality control, and learns household routines rather than following a timetable.

The Hub’s target market is commercial from the outset. It is intended for developers, hotel operators, consultants and system integrators specifying their next projects, and for homeowners who want to experience the technology before it is installed in their own property. Enquiries for design and installation of the CASABOT AI Home are handled by BMTC, and Hub visits can be arranged through the company from its October 2026 opening. Further details of the appointment are available at https://www.einpresswire.com/article/951183924/bmtc-to-open-ai-home-innovation-hub-in-dubai-as-casabot-system-integrator.

Underpinning the offer is a technical architecture with a privacy pitch at its core. HiveOS, CASABOT’s device-unification layer, runs locally on hardware inside the home and brings more than 3,000 device brands across Zigbee, Z-Wave, KNX, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Thread, Matter, DALI and other protocols into a single system. BOTty, the platform’s AI agent, understands natural language in 92 languages and dialects, with conversations processed on CASABOT’s own infrastructure and deleted when each session ends. No resident data is stored outside the home, and local automation continues to run without an internet connection. That design addresses a question that has trailed the smart-home category since its inception, namely where household data goes and who can see it. It also aligns with the UAE’s stated ambition, set out in the UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031, to be among the leading nations in AI adoption.

The executives framing the deal emphasise both market positioning and track record. Mario Schiano Lo Moriello, Chief Executive Officer of CASABOT, said the UAE has set out to lead the world in artificial intelligence and that the home is where most people will first live with it every day. He noted BMTC’s 58 years putting the electrical and lighting backbone into the country’s best-known buildings, and said the partnership aims to define the category rather than follow it. Mr Ali Al Mazroei, Chief Executive Officer of the Bahri & Mazroei Group, said the Group has introduced new categories of building technology to the UAE for close to six decades, and that what persuaded the Group was seeing the system live at its Academy, working locally and with the devices customers already install.

CASABOT, headquartered at Gate Avenue, DIFC, Dubai, with operations in Switzerland, Georgia, India and Pakistan, sells through distributors and system integrators to residential developers and hotel operators. For both firms, the wager is that a permanent, walk-through installation in a prime Dubai location will convert specification visits into ordered projects when the Hub opens in October 2026.