A turnkey smart building platform for developers in Latvia
Unitify connects access control, video intercoms, dispatching and a resident app into one platform for developers building residential complexes in Riga and beyond, and for the pārvaldnieks who runs the building afterward.
Built around Latvia's Law on the Administration of Residential Houses
One platform built for the Dzīvojamo māju pārvaldīšanas likums and the pārvaldnieks (manager) it makes responsible for every multi-apartment house's mājas lieta (house file), payment control and annual report.
Payment rails already in use
The management fee runs on the payment methods a Latvian owner already has — a bank transfer or a barcoded invoice paid over the counter. Card payments run through Unitify's integrated Stripe acquiring.
Stripe
Card payments processed through Unitify's Stripe integration.
SEPA credit transfer (pārskaitījums)
Standard bank transfer from any Latvian or EU bank account, for monthly charges and one-off payments alike.
Maxima
Residents can pay a barcoded management invoice in cash or by card at any Maxima checkout, for €0.59 per invoice, up to €1 000 — the supermarket acting as agent of a licensed payment institution. Paying this way needs a barcode on the invoice and a biller agreement with the payment institution — it is not a Unitify integration.
Klix
Citadele bank's own payment solution for card, Apple Pay and Google Pay checkout — not a connected Unitify integration.
Built around Latvian housing law, verified against the primary source
Every claim below links to the primary-source citation it is verified against, not a summary.
The house file, and why part of it lives in BIS (arts. 8, 8.1)
A house file must be opened for every multi-apartment residential house, and its contents are prescribed: owners' decisions, the management contract, powers of attorney, work plans, estimates, actual income-and-expenditure reports, the accumulated-funds balance, confirmations that maintenance work was done, inspection records and meter data. Part of the house file is not paperwork you keep — it is filed into the state Construction Information System (BIS). Meeting and survey decisions, management powers of attorney, work plans, the accumulated-funds figure and inspection records are created there; the management contract, estimates, actual income-and-expenditure reports and maintenance confirmations are uploaded there within 14 days. This has applied since 28 February 2023.
Arts. 8, 8.1, Dzīvojamo māju pārvaldīšanas likums, likumi.lv ↗Manager qualification and the state managers' register (arts. 13, 18)
Managing apartments in a Latvian multi-apartment house is a qualified profession: the person who actually performs the management task in that house must hold the residential-house-management professional education at the fifth qualification level. The managers' register is kept by the State Construction Control Bureau, and everything is filed online through bis.gov.lv — including the management contract itself and the staff qualification certificates.
Arts. 13, 18, 19, Dzīvojamo māju pārvaldīšanas likums; MK noteikumi Nr. 343, likumi.lv ↗Decisions: majority rule and the repeat quorum (arts. 17, 19.1)
A decision binds every owner in the house when more than half of all apartment properties vote for it — not half of those present. Where a meeting or a survey fails for want of quorum, Latvian law allows a repeat within one month, valid on more than one third of all apartments and decided by a majority of those taking part — but only on simple-majority questions from the original agenda, and the decision takes effect a month after it is notified.
Arts. 17, 19.1, Dzīvokļa īpašuma likums, likumi.lv ↗Per-house money: accounting yes, a separate bank account no (art. 13; MK 408, MK 1013)
Latvian law requires the accounting and the settlement with service providers to be done separately for each house, and the annual estimate to be drawn up per house with every service priced line by line. Latvia does not require a separate bank account for each house, and it does not require charges to be paid cashlessly.
Arts. 13, 15.2, 16(2)(9), Dzīvokļa īpašuma likums; MK noteikumi Nr. 408, MK noteikumi Nr. 1013, likumi.lv ↗Arrears: statutory interest, and the debt that follows the flat since 2026 (art. 13.1)
Latvian law charges default interest on late payment without any need for a clause in the contract — 6% a year where a consumer is a party. Since 1 January 2026, when a Latvian apartment changes hands by a voluntary sale, the buyer becomes liable for the seller's management, utility, savings-fund and land-use arrears going back up to three years, together with interest and any contractual penalty.
Art. 13.1, Dzīvokļa īpašuma likums; arts. 1759, 1765, Civillikums, likumi.lv ↗BIS is the state system for the house file and decisions — not for charges (arts. 8, 17.3–17.4)
Latvia has a state system for the house file, for owners' decisions and for reporting — the Construction Information System, BIS. It has no state system for housing charges: how residents pay is a commercial question. A Latvian management company has had to operate an official electronic address since 1 January 2023, and until owners' communities get their own, official correspondence with the community goes to the manager's.
Arts. 8, 17.3, 17.4, Dzīvojamo māju pārvaldīšanas likums; arts. 18(5¹), 20(6), Dzīvokļa īpašuma likums; art. 5, Oficiālās elektroniskās adreses likums, likumi.lv ↗The hardware layer, wired into your platform
Intercom, access, video, meters and EV charging connect through mini apps, alongside your requests and billing.
Digital intercom
Calls go straight to the resident’s phone. Entry by app, BLE tag or face.
Access control
Contactless entry by phone or tag. Vehicle access by plate recognition.
Video surveillance
Live cameras, digital archives and plate recognition at the gate.
Meter telemetry
Electricity, water, gas and heat readings arrive automatically, no manual rounds.
EV charging
Stations on the map, sessions booked, billed and tracked in the app.
Building management
Ventilation, heating, lifts and other systems monitored from one dashboard, with instant alerts.
Devices, orchestrator, resident app
Devices
Intercoms, access control, cameras, meters, EV chargers and building systems, from any vendor.
Orchestrator
Unitify connects every device to one dashboard. New hardware plugs in as a mini app, nothing gets replaced.
Resident app
One app for doors, meters, intercom calls and charging. No fifth login to remember.
Questions developers and building managers ask
How should a developer approach smart-building technology in a new Latvian residential complex?
Treat it as one platform decision, not a shopping list of hardware: access control, video intercoms, dispatching and a resident app should hand over to the building's pārvaldnieks already connected, along with the house file the law requires from day one.
What is a pārvaldnieks, and does the role need a qualification in Latvia?
The pārvaldnieks is the manager who performs the management task under a written management contract with the owners. Managing apartments in a Latvian multi-apartment house is a qualified profession: the person who actually performs the task must hold the residential-house-management professional education at the fifth qualification level.
Does Latvia's Construction Information System (BIS) handle owner voting electronically?
Yes. Latvia's electronic decision-making is written into the statute: owners can vote in BIS, sign their ballot with the system's e-signing tool, issue and revoke a power of attorney there, and a decision counts as notified from the moment it is signed or attached in BIS.
How does a video intercom with phone unlocking work?
The call goes to the resident's phone through the app instead of a panel inside the apartment. The resident sees the visitor on camera and unlocks the door remotely.
What does a smart building cost a developer in Latvia, roughly?
It depends on which systems are included — access control, intercoms, dispatching, meters — and scales with unit count. Unitify's cost calculator breaks this down per building rather than quoting a flat industry number.
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