This transformative new business model supplies Smart Living-as-a-Service (SLaaS) options for building owners and managers. iStock Eve-Marie Lanza, Sr. Manager of Solutions Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. For anyone who has lived in a dense apartment complex or building, multiple Wi-Fi routers close together competing for limited radio signal space can make accessing the Internet a challenging experience, to say the least. To address the problem, property managers are increasingly treating Wi-Fi as a fifth utility for large multifamily communities, not only to create a better overall online experience for residents but also to leverage a single network to better enable and implement smart home features designed to improve the convenience and comfort of tenants.