Databricks, a data and artificial intelligence company, has been selected to support a new generation of rental property analytics at SmartRent.
As part of the multi-year initiative, SmartRent, a provider of smart home and property technology for the rental housing industry, will make the Databricks Data + AI Platform the core of its new data architecture.
SmartRent intends to consolidate data from across its connected-property ecosystem within a single governed system. This will support analytics and automated workflows for multifamily and single-family rental housing. The companies expect to introduce new data capabilities over the coming quarters.
Databricks platform to consolidate SmartRent property data
The new architecture will organise data from SmartRent’s smart-property ecosystem and support operational analysis and portfolio-wide visibility.
Operational intelligence is one of the areas covered by the initiative. SmartRent plans to develop capabilities intended to help property operators manage workflows, mitigate physical operational risks, and improve net operating income across their portfolios.
The programme will also address enterprise data governance. SmartRent said the unified system would provide property owners, operators, and other stakeholders with organisation-wide visibility and actionable real estate insights.
Sangeeth Ponathil, chief information officer at SmartRent, said moving the company’s connected ecosystem to a single architecture would support the expansion of its property intelligence and workflow automation capabilities.
Initiative supports SmartRent’s Vision 2028 strategy
The agreement advances one of the five priorities set out under SmartRent’s Vision 2028 strategy: unifying its platform through greater use of data, analytics, and AI. The strategy also calls for growth in the company’s installed footprint, a broader sales operation, simplified hardware architecture, expanded software offerings, and more scalable internal processes.
SmartRent’s enterprise platform combines purpose-built hardware and software for rental housing. Its solutions are designed for property owners, operators, on-site teams, and residents.
The scale of the company’s operations indicates the volume of property information the new architecture could support. As of 31 March 2026, SmartRent had 911,244 deployed units and approximately 600 customers with an active subscription or a product purchase during the preceding 12 months. SmartRent estimates that these customers owned approximately 6.6 million rental units, representing about 13% of the US market for institutionally owned multifamily and single-family rental housing, according to its recent quarterly filing.
SmartRent will also use Databricks’ Built On programme as it develops the proposed analytics and operational capabilities. Sarah Branfman, global vice-president of independent software vendors at Databricks, said the initiative would bring SmartRent’s IoT infrastructure together within a secure, open architecture.
The companies have not yet specified which analytics or workflow capabilities will be introduced first.
