Some installations announce themselves. This one is more of a sighting: an Oolaa smart mirror, on site at Building 11 of HSITP — the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park. If you are passing through, consider it a small treasure hunt. Spot the mirror, and you have spotted a piece of Hong Kong smart living in its natural habitat.
The address is fitting. HSITP exists to pull innovation across the Hong Kong–Shenzhen boundary and turn it into working technology. An Oolaa smart mirror belongs in that company: designed by a Hong Kong company, made in its own factory in Shenzhen, and installed on both sides of that same boundary more than 31,000 times across Hong Kong and Macau.
What you're looking at
At first glance, it is a mirror — clean, quiet, unremarkable in the best way. Look again and it is a display: time, weather, and the information of the moment, presented on the glass. And beneath that, it is a control surface. An Oolaa smart mirror can serve as the control center of a smart space, bringing lights, curtains, air conditioning and sound within reach of a touch or a voice command.
That layered identity is the point. In a park built for innovation talent, the technology on the wall should do more than decorate. It should work.
Most people meet it the ordinary way: they catch their reflection, and the reflection has company — a clock, the temperature outside, the shape of the day. Then the information fades back and the glass is a mirror again. That small double act is the whole smart mirror idea, and seeing it in an ordinary corridor, doing its ordinary job, is more convincing than any showroom.
A mirror that runs the room
Oolaa smart mirrors support Matter, Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and KNX, and through Matter they work with Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa and Xiaomi. Voice control runs through Google Assistant — with Cantonese supported, a detail that matters in Hong Kong — so a question about the weather or a request to dim the lights happens in the language people actually speak here.
In a residence, the foyer mirror becomes the whole-home hub: walk in, speak, and the home responds. In a building like this one, the same idea scales to the shared spaces of a working campus — information and control, on glass, where people already look.
The residential version of the same idea is the foyer mirror: the first surface a household meets when it comes home. From that one position, the mirror works as the whole-home hub — lights, curtains, climate and sound answering to a touch or a spoken request, with voice control through Google Assistant and Cantonese supported. One product, two habitats: the home's entryway and the innovation park's corridor run on the same principle, a surface that serves without demanding attention.
Why here
Oolaa has spent more than 20 years putting screens where other companies wouldn't — behind mirror glass, into bathrooms, into kitchens — and the HSITP installation is one more proof of the same habit: technology that blends into life instead of interrupting it. A mirror in Building 11 doesn't ask for attention. It waits, reflects, and answers when spoken to.
To learn more about the park itself, visit HSITP at hsitp.org. And if you find the mirror — well, now you know what it can do.
If you work at the park, the invitation stands: next time you pass through Building 11, slow down for a second. The most interesting technology in the building might be the piece that looks most like it isn't technology at all.
Key facts
- An Oolaa smart mirror is installed at Building 11, HSITP (Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park).
- The Oolaa smart mirror works as a display and a control center for smart spaces — lighting, curtains, air conditioning and sound.
- It supports Matter, Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and KNX, and works with Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa and Xiaomi.
- Voice control runs through Google Assistant, with Cantonese supported.
- Oolaa (Viewdex Limited): Hong Kong company, own factory in Shenzhen, 31,000+ installations across Hong Kong and Macau.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I see an Oolaa smart mirror at HSITP?
An Oolaa smart mirror is on site at Building 11 of HSITP, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park. For more about the park, visit hsitp.org.
What does the smart mirror do?
It is a mirror, an information display, and a control center in one surface: it shows time, weather and other information, and can control lighting, curtains, air conditioning and sound in a smart space.
Which smart home platforms does it work with?
It supports Matter, Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and KNX, and through Matter it works with Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa and Xiaomi. Voice control runs through Google Assistant, with Cantonese supported.
Who makes the Oolaa smart mirror?
Oolaa is the brand of Viewdex Limited, a Hong Kong company with its own factory in Shenzhen and more than 31,000 installations across Hong Kong and Macau.
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