Seeing a Flat in Piramal Aranya? Here Is Everything to Know

When is possession, tower by tower?

Three towers are done and one is close. Here is where each stood on 3 November 2026:

• Avyan: delivered. Piramal says its occupancy certificate came 21 months ahead of schedule, and residents had moved in by July 2024.
• Arav: delivered. The tallest tower on the site, which Piramal describes as fully completed and ready to move into.
• Ahan I: occupancy certificate received and ready to move in, per Piramal's August 2026 blog comparing the two Ahan wings. One older answer on the project page still calls Ahan I under construction, so if that matters to your purchase, check its MahaRERA record, P51900020330.
• Ahan II: topped out, with interior finishing underway. We are not repeating a completion date from a listing site: open the MahaRERA portal, search P51900051735, and read the date on its registration and on any extension certificate.

Ahan II buyers are the ones about to take possession, and the weeks before handover are the cheapest time to plan. Find out from Piramal's team what, if anything, can be changed before the flat is handed over, and list two things for your own electrician either way: a neutral at each switch box where a keypad may go, and a power point at the head of each window for a curtain motor. From first consultation to commissioning, an AHA system usually takes 2 to 4 weeks. Our new flat possession checklist covers the handover itself.

What comes with a Piramal Aranya flat?

Good finishes and a great deal of glass. Piramal's own pages list these, and the right-hand column is what each one means once you start planning a smart home:

Then there is DigiSelect. In July 2021 Piramal announced DigiSelect Homes for Aranya, Mahalaxmi and Vaikunth: lights, TV, fan and AC by app or voice assistant, automated curtains, an app-controlled main lock, two live-streaming cameras (one in the living room, one outside the door), presence sensors in the washrooms and custom light scenes. The release does not say whether every flat gets it, or in which towers. So before you buy any automation, walk your flat and write down what is actually there: motors on the curtain tracks, the lock on the main door, the two cameras, sensors in the washrooms, and the app that runs each one.

What we could not find on Piramal's pages: the type of air conditioning, the switch brand, and whether there is piped gas or power backup. Ask at handover. The AC answer matters most, because it decides how the AC can be controlled.

Why is automation worth it in a Piramal Aranya flat?

Because the light moves across an Aranya home during the day, and the flat has glass on both sides to catch it. Five reasons this building rewards automation more than most:

• Morning on one side, afternoon on the other. The harbour glass to the east takes the early sun and the Rani Baug glass to the west takes the late sun; Piramal itself says higher-floor Arav homes see both sunrise and sunset. Curtains that follow the sun round the flat keep each side comfortable without anyone walking from window to window.
• A view worth keeping open. The garden and the harbour are why people buy here. A sheer that draws across for the glaring hours, instead of a blackout that shuts everything out, keeps the view through the hottest part of the day.
• From a 2 BHK in Ahan to a 2,849 sq ft home in Avyan. A compact Ahan flat might start with the living room and the master bedroom; a large Avyan home needs one button that settles the whole flat. The same system grows a room at a time.
• Finished floors. Marble and wood rule out cutting the floor. A wireless system runs on the wiring already in the walls, with a neutral at each keypad box.
• Some of it may already be fitted. If DigiSelect is in your flat, knowing exactly what it covers stops you paying twice, and that is easiest to find out before you move in.

What can you automate in a Piramal Aranya flat?

Most of what you switch, pull or lock by hand in a day. Below, room by room, is what each part does in an Aranya home in particular. Every device joins a single AHA hub, so curtains, lights, AC and locks act together as scenes rather than as a drawer full of separate apps.

Living and dining room

• Curtains that know which side they face. Harbour-side and garden-side windows get their own schedules: the east sheers draw across in the morning, the west ones in the afternoon. Each layer runs on its own curtain motor at 27 dB, and if someone tugs a curtain by hand, the system still knows where it stopped.
• Light, fitting by fitting. Each fitting gets its own smart driver, which means its own brightness and its own warmth: the coves can glow low over the marble while the dining pendant stays bright for dinner. Chandeliers are the exception. Unless the bulbs themselves are dimmable, a chandelier works as on or off.
• The air conditioning, once you know what it is. If your units work with an IR remote, an IR controller can stand in for that remote: it sets temperature and mode, dry mode included for the monsoon months, provided it has a clear line of sight to each unit's receiver.
• Fans and the TV. Ceiling fans can join if they are BLDC, through an RF controller; standard induction fans are not supported. The TV and set-top box are run by IR.
• Scenes for the evening. For a film or a cricket match, Theatre Mode does the setting up: screen on, curtains on both facades drawn, AC to temperature, lights down. Hosting Mode brings the temperature down quickly for guests, lets the AC settle after five minutes, and sets each light to a different level so the room's best features catch the eye.
• Sound and fragrance. Music comes from AHA Room Speakers set into the ceiling, AirPlay built in, and an aroma diffuser can be added to any of these scenes.

Master bedroom

• Corner glass, one curtain. Where a bedroom has L-shaped or corner glass, as Arav master bedrooms do, the track bends round the corner so the curtain closes the whole window in one movement.
• Wake to the view, slowly. Goodmorning Mode draws the curtains back a tenth at a time, every five minutes. If your bedroom glass faces the harbour, the morning sun arrives as a gradual brightening instead of a sudden glare.
• Night steps on a wooden floor. Midnight Walk hides a battery motion sensor under the bed; step down in the dark and a low light comes up for you. Being battery powered, it needs no wiring, so the wooden floor Piramal lays in the master bedroom is left alone.
• Locks for the room and the wardrobe. A fingerprint opens the bedroom door, and only the admin can open it from the app. The wardrobe lock takes a fingerprint too, or can be released remotely from the app, and it is covered for three years.
• One button to end the day. Press the bedside button and the flat shuts down for the night: lights out everywhere, curtains closed on both sides, AC at the temperature you sleep at. For reading or getting ready, Spotlight Mode puts the light on you and leaves the room around you low.

Children's room and other bedrooms

• Kids Mode. A single switch turns a child's room into a play space: lights cycling through colours, the StarLight Projector scattering stars over the ceiling, curtains drawn so they show, and the fan or AC holding a comfortable temperature.
• A schedule per room, per side. In a dual-aspect flat the bedrooms do not all get the sun at once. A west-facing room can close up for the afternoon while an east-facing one stays open, each with its own AC timing.

Kitchen, utility and passages

• Cleaning, on one button. Cleaning Mode is made for house help: a single click floods the room with bright white light and stops the AC and fan; a double click keeps the light and runs the AC briefly so a mopped floor dries.
• Passage lights that follow you. Walk into the passage or kitchen and the light is already on; four minutes after you have gone, it is off. The motion sensors run on batteries and need no wiring.

Bathrooms

• Check what is already there. DigiSelect's list included presence sensors in the washrooms. If your bathrooms have them, find out whether they work and what they control before adding anything.
• A light that waits for you. Where there is no sensor, an AHA human presence sensor uses radar to tell that someone is still in the room, even standing motionless under the shower, and keeps the light on until they leave. It is wired to phase and neutral, so your electrician checks for both at that point.
• Music in the bathroom. The bathroom speaker is IP44-rated for the damp and draws its sound from a multi-zone amplifier, which can feed the bedroom too.

Entrance and main door

• Start with the lock you have. If DigiSelect's app-controlled lock is on your door, learn what it does first. If not, the AHA smart main door lock lets people in by face recognition, fingerprint, palm, keypad or NFC card, with one-time codes for visitors and a timed code for house help. Ring the bell and its camera wakes while your lights blink; try to force it and a 30-second alarm sounds and your phone is alerted. With a safety door in front, fit depends on the clearance between the two doors, measured on site.
• Arriving and leaving. Walk in and Grand Welcome greets each person with their own setting of lights, AC and curtains. Walk out and Goodbye Routine does the rounds for you: door locked, everything off, every curtain shut on the harbour side and the garden side.

Mandir

• Pooja Mode. Set a time and the mandir is ready before you are: its lights already on, fragrance from the diffuser, and bhajans on an AHA speaker if you want them. See Pooja Mode.

The whole flat

• Runs at home, not in the cloud. The hub that runs your scenes sits in the flat, not on a server, so an internet outage does not stop the lights, curtains or locks. Only remote access, cameras and voice depend on a connection.
• A signal that reaches every room. Every mains-powered device on the system also passes the signal along, which is how one hub covers a large Avyan home end to end.
• Phone and voice. Control it from the AHA app for iPhone wherever you are, or by voice through Amazon Alexa or Google Home; it also works with Apple Home and Siri. Nothing is billed monthly.
• Keypads with more on them. An X7 keypad does more than its buttons suggest: each button can run three scenes, depending on whether you press it once, press it twice or hold it. Each keypad needs a neutral wire at its switch box.
• One room now, the rest later. Start with whichever room gets the harshest sun; the rest can join later, and nothing already done has to change.

Has AHA worked in Piramal Aranya, and what does it cost?

AHA has designed 4 homes in Piramal Aranya, and we have had 8 enquiries from the building. Those conversations are where most of the questions on this page came from. For a sense of scale, these are AHA's published room estimates; they are estimates, not quotes:

• Living room: 3 keypads, a curtain set, 10 light drivers, AC and fan control ₹1,20,000
• Master bedroom: a keypad, 6 light drivers, AC and fan control, a curtain set ₹85,000
• Guest room: a keypad, 6 light drivers, AC and fan control ₹60,000

The hub is counted inside each of those figures, but a flat needs only one, so adding the three rooms together overstates the total. In Aranya the curtains move the number most: glass on two facades, often with a sheer and a blackout on each, means more motors than a single curtain set. Every automation part is under warranty for two years from invoice, roughly 95 per cent of support tickets are resolved remotely inside 30 minutes, and support costs nothing for the first year. For a whole-flat view, see our 3BHK cost breakdown; for your own flat, a site visit puts a price on the actual plan. AHA is a home automation company in Mumbai and is not affiliated with Piramal Realty.

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