Smart Mirror at HK-Shenzhen Innovation Park (HSITP)

The Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP) covers an area of 87 hectares, and its development is divided into two phases. The estimated total floor area of the first phase will be 1 million square meters — a research city in its own right, and one where Oolaa smart mirrors have a place in daily life.

A park built for research — and for the people who do it

The first phase will provide Research and Development buildings — wet labs and advanced manufacturing — alongside dry labs and offices, research, academic and industry buildings, talent accommodation, visitor lodges, and commercial and ancillary facilities. Beyond Batch 1, the remaining land in the first phase of HSITP will be developed through enterprise investment, aiming to enhance the speed and quantity of project development by leveraging market forces to build high-quality research and industrial infrastructure.

That mix is the point. An innovation park does not succeed on laboratories alone; it succeeds when talented people choose to live and work there. The accommodation is not an afterthought — it is part of the offer.

Smart mirrors in every talent apartment

In each talent apartment, smart mirrors are provided, offering professionals an exceptional living environment. These mirrors not only enable control of smart home devices but also provide access to real-time information. This enhances the comfort of the living space and allows for an immersive experience of smart living and innovative solutions.

There is a satisfying symmetry in it: the people developing tomorrow's technology come home to a residence that already works the way they expect technology to work. The mirror is where the day starts — information at a glance, the home responding around it — rather than a novelty demonstrated once and forgotten.

Consider what the park is asking of its residents: relocate, commit, and build new research programs far from the established urban core. Every friction removed from daily life strengthens that ask. Housing that pairs laboratories with genuinely comfortable, technology-ready homes is not decoration on the project — it is part of how the park competes for the researchers it exists to attract.

Why living quality matters in an innovation district

Innovation districts around the world compete for the same scarce resource: people. Salaries and laboratory space are only part of the decision; the quality of everyday life — where you live, how your home works — increasingly tips it. Specifying smart mirrors across the talent accommodation is a small line item with an outsized effect, because residents meet it every single morning.

For Oolaa, the project is a natural fit: a Hong Kong company, factory-direct from its own plant in Shenzhen — the same cross-border story as the park itself — with more than 31,000 installations across Hong Kong and Macau.