The KAUST smart home has achieved the top LEED Platinum certification, by adhering to prerequisites and credits that address carbon, energy, water, waste, transportation, materials, health and indoor environmental quality. Currently the house has reached net zero during the daytime and saving 40% in water consumption. Proactively testing smart city concepts and leveraging the underlying technology essentially enables and supports the vision of the KAUST smart home as a living laboratory. In pursuit of this objective, technological innovations from eight KAUST startups have been integrated into the house's design direction, focusing on four main areas: solar, geothermal, smart tech and architecture. What differentiate the smart home than others is having the KAUST community live in it for a period to provide feedback from the users aspect will help us improving the living quality.