Residential Test Homes
3 fully-furnished homes in Beaverton, Oregon purpose-built for real-world smart home device testing, wireless performance validation, and competitive analysis.
Schedule a TestWhat Is a Residential Test Home?
Novus Labs operates three furnished residential test homes in Beaverton, Oregon for real-world smart home device testing. Instead of a benchtop, your product is exercised in actual living spaces, across the wireless noise, layouts, and usage patterns of a genuine home.
Novus Labs runs real-world smart home device testing in three furnished residential test homes, validating wireless, audio, and voice performance in everyday living environments.
- 3 single-family homes in the same neighborhood
- 3,000 sq ft each (5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms)
- 2-story wood and drywall construction
- Fully furnished with real-time monitoring
- 24/7 security and controlled access
- Customizable house configuration
What Can You Validate in the Test Homes?
Purpose-built testing capabilities that can only happen in a real residential environment.
- Whole-home signal coverage mapping
- Throughput testing across all rooms
- Front yard, backyard, and garage reach
- Multi-device co-existence testing
- Real-world interference scenarios
- Device-vs-device benchmarking
- Cross-generation product comparison
- Strengths and weaknesses assessment
- Standardized testing protocols
- Detailed performance reports
- Proprietary Distributed Audio Analyzer
- Multi-room speaker synchronization
- Smart speaker feature evaluation
- Real-world acoustic environments
- Simultaneous playback testing
Why Test Across a Full Smart Home Ecosystem?
A device rarely fails on its own; it fails next to the dozens of other things already running in a home. Each test home is equipped with a complete smart home ecosystem, so we can run end-to-end interoperability testing to gauge how your product behaves alongside cameras, entertainment, appliances, and home automation devices, in the same conditions it will face in a customer's home.
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Walk through one of our residential test homes and see the testing infrastructure firsthand.
Dedicated Control Room & Analytics
Each test home is supported by a dedicated control room with real-time monitoring capabilities. Engineers track wireless signal coverage, device performance, and environmental conditions throughout every test session. For distributed and smart-speaker audio work, the homes pair directly with our acoustic isolation booths.
- Signal coverage heatmaps
- Simulated ambient environments (RF, audio, lighting)
- Device-specific installation and configuration
- User story and scenario-based test plans
Residential Test Homes FAQ
Where are the Novus test homes?
Novus Labs operates three single-family residential test homes in Beaverton, Oregon, minutes from our Hillsboro headquarters. Each is a two-story, roughly 3,000-square-foot furnished home wired with a dedicated control room for real-time monitoring.
What do you test in the homes?
We test whole-home wireless coverage and throughput, distributed and smart-speaker audio, and end-to-end smart home interoperability across cameras, entertainment, appliances, and home automation. Every test runs under authentic residential conditions rather than on a bench.
Can you compare our device against competitors in-home?
Yes. We run head-to-head competitive analysis in identical real-world conditions, benchmarking your product against competitors or prior generations and delivering standardized performance reports. It pairs naturally with our real-world validation program.
Ready to Test in a Real Home?
Schedule time in one of our 3 residential test homes. Get real-world data on wireless performance, audio quality, and device interoperability.