In an exclusive interview with Smart Home World, Tom Samyn, Sales & Marketing Director, Basalte, delves into the brand’s design philosophy, explaining how Basalte creates smart homes that seamlessly balance performance, elegance, and ease of use. Samyn also shares insights into the company’s growing portfolio of projects in India, highlighting how thoughtful design and technology come together to elevate modern living spaces.
Basalte has built its reputation for combining refined European design with intuitive smart home technology. How does this design philosophy influence your product development, and how is it resonating with discerning homeowners and designers in India’s luxury segment?
At Basalte, our design philosophy starts from the belief that technology should quietly blend into architecture rather than stand out. Rooted in refined European design and craftsmanship, this mindset shapes every product we develop — from intuitive interfaces to carefully selected materials, all designed and produced in-house in Belgium.
This approach resonates strongly within India’s luxury segment, where discerning homeowners and designers value timeless aesthetics, tactile equality and technology that enhances comfort without disrupting the architectural vision. For them, Basalte is not about visible smart technology, but about effortless, elegant living.
What makes Basalte Home particularly relevant for luxury Indian residences, where multi-generational living, varied daily routines, and ease of use are key considerations?
Basalte Home is particularly relevant for luxury Indian residences because it is designed around simplicity and adaptability. With multi-generational living and varied daily routines, everyone in the home — from children to grandparents — needs technology that feels natural and effortless. Our interfaces are intuitive and consistent throughout the house, requiring no technical knowledge to use.
At the same time, Basalte Home adapts seamlessly to different lifestyles and moments of the day, offering personalised scenes and controls without adding complexity. By combining this ease of use with discreet, timeless design, Basalte creates a smart home experience that supports comfort, harmony and elegance across generations.
Basalte Home integrates lighting, shades, climate, audio, security, and more into one seamless platform. What makes Basalte Home’s architecture – including the Core servers and app- stand out in terms of usability, scalability, and real-world performance compared to conventional automation systems?
Basalte Home stands out through an architecture that is designed for real-life living rather than technical complexity. At its core, the system is built around powerful Core servers that handle all logic locally, ensuring fast response times and reliability. This local intelligence guarantees consistent performance, even in large residences with many integrated systems.
Usability is central to the architecture. The Basalte Home app and interfaces are uniform, intuitive and role-based, so daily control feels natural for every user while advanced functionality remains accessible for integrators and users. Scalability is built in from the start: whether it’s a private residence or a large multi-villa estate, the system grows without compromising speed or simplicity.
Compared to conventional automation systems, Basalte offers a refined balance between performance, elegance and ease of use — delivering a smart home that feels calm, responsive and future-proof in everyday use.
How suitable is Adelante for Indian housing formats such as high-rise apartments, independent villas, and gated communities?
Adelante has a strong security focus and modular architecture. Whether it’s a high-rise apartment, an independent villa or a gated community, Adelante can be tailored precisely to the level of access control and security required.
Its modular design allows integrators to compose the door communication system per location: from a full video intercom with camera and display at a main entrance, to stand-alone security modules where appropriate — such as a keycard reader, numeric keypad or fingerprint reader at private entrances, staff access points or secondary gates. This makes Adelante highly flexible for complex residential layouts common in India.
Integrated seamlessly with Basalte Home, Adelante links access control to the wider home experience: doors, lighting, scenes and notifications work together to provide both security and comfort. With its refined design and scalable setup, Basalte offers a security solution that is robust, adaptable and elegant — across apartments, villas and gated communities alike.
Entertainment plays a central role in Indian homes. How do Basalte’s multiroom audio and AV components enhance everyday living while remaining visually discreet? Tell us about your offering in this segment.
Entertainment plays a central role in everyday life, and at Basalte, we believe it should be experienced without visual noise or technical complexity. Our multiroom audio and AV offering is fully integrated into Basalte Home, allowing music, television and shared moments to flow naturally throughout the house. Everything is controlled intuitively via the app, keypads, or scenes, so technology supports daily life rather than interrupting it.
At the heart of our audio portfolio is the Aalto F5, our high-performance speaker designed for those who expect uncompromising sound quality. It delivers powerful, expressive and detailed audio that does justice to music and cinema alike, while its sculptural form allows it to stand proudly within refined interiors. It is performance without compromise, both acoustically and visually.
Alongside this, our Rondo design speakers offer a more playful and customisable approach. With their distinctive circular design and choice of finishes and sizes, they blend seamlessly into a wide range of interiors while delivering clear, balanced sound across living spaces.
Together with Basalte amplifiers and AV components, these speakers form a coherent ecosystem where sources such as streaming services, turntables and TVs are unified into one elegant platform. For Indian homes, where entertainment often brings family and generations together, Basalte delivers an experience that is immersive yet discreet — powerful sound, effortless control and timeless design, all working quietly in the background of everyday living.
Can you share examples of how motion sensors improve comfort and optimise energy usage in India’s diverse climatic conditions? Can you suggest a specific range?
Auro, Basalte’s motion sensor, makes everyday living both more comfortable and more energy-efficient. By detecting presence and ambient light, Auro can automatically control lighting, climate and shading based on actual use: lights switch on when someone enters and off when the room is empty, and climate settings adjust to occupancy rather than running continuously. This reduces wasted energy in both hot, humid summers and cooler periods without compromising comfort.
In multi-generational homes, Auro also enhances convenience and safety, for example, by softly illuminating corridors or bathrooms at night when movement is detected.
Because Auro integrates seamlessly with Basalte Home, it works with scenes, schedules and logic rules across zones, delivering intuitive automation that feels natural while optimising energy use — all with a refined, unobtrusive presence in the space.
Could you highlight an India-based project where Basalte Home, Adelante, and multi-room AV solutions have come together to elevate the overall smart living experience?
One great India-based example is One Hyd Park in Hyderabad (Banjara Hills), integrated by Edomotics & Smato.
In this private apartment, Basalte Home brings lighting, shading and music together in effortless scenes via Ellie and Fibonacci touch displays, keeping daily control intuitive and consistent throughout the home.
At the entrance, Adelante elevates the arrival experience with elegant door communication and integrated access control (including a discreet fingerprint reader), so welcoming guests feels seamless and refined.
For AV, the living room home theatre is completed with Plano in-wall design speakers—minimal in appearance, yet immersive in performance—delivering cinematic sound without visual clutter.
Looking ahead, what trends do you see shaping the future of luxury smart homes in India, and Basalte’s association with Smato?
Looking ahead, luxury smart homes in India will increasingly be defined by high-end quality, reliability and long-term service, rather than sheer technical features. Homeowners expect systems that perform flawlessly every day, age gracefully with the architecture, and can adapt to evolving lifestyles without disruption.
This is where Basalte stands out — through refined European design, robust system architecture and products built for long-term performance. Equally important is our close association with Smato, whose excellent local support, commissioning expertise and after-sales service ensure that every project meets the highest standards from installation to daily use.
Together, Basalte and Smato deliver a luxury smart home experience in India that is not only elegant and intuitive, but also dependable, well-supported and truly premium over time.
