Hi there<p>My name is Bryan and I&#x27;m one of the co-founders of a local company Intraix. Our company has been selected to be one of the vendors and is involved in the HDB Smart Home Trials with a local Telco - M1. I am pretty sure I would be able to paint out perspectives from different spectrums of this conversation.<p>In term of data protection and ensuring security,<p>The agencies involved in the smart home trial did put in a lot of effort to ensure that all companies in the program complies to the [Personal Data Protection Act] (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pdpc.gov.sg&#x2F;legislation-and-guidelines&#x2F;overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pdpc.gov.sg&#x2F;legislation-and-guidelines&#x2F;overview</a>) with very stringent criteria to data handling passed down to all the vendors.<p>As a matter of fact, our system had to face penetration tests conducted by Ernst and Young, a big 4 Auditing Firm before we can even get past the initial gates of entrance. I’m not saying that these measures are perfect but I believe the agencies, especially the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is really serious about data privacy.