The intercom was stuck in the past.
So we started over.
In 2014, in Singapore, we asked a simple question: why does the box at the lobby still work like it’s 1985, while everything else in a resident’s life lives on their phone? Answering it has kept us busy for a decade.
Most intercom brands assemble other people’s parts and rent other people’s software. We build the metal, write the code, and run the cloud, so when we stand behind a system, we’re standing behind our own work, every layer of it.
No third-party firmware · No outsourced software · No fragile integrations
The metal, the code, the cloud.
One team owns the whole stack, so it fits like a single product.
A decade of firsts.
Founded in Singapore
Schonell is born in Singapore with an unfashionable conviction: an intercom company should engineer its own hardware, software and cloud. From the very first generation, we design and build every layer in-house, to a standard the rest of the category doesn’t hold itself to.
The world’s first intercom for your smartphone
The Interphone Hybrid lets visitors video-call residents on iOS and Android, years before the industry followed, while keeping audio telephony so no grandparent is ever locked out of the future.
Interphone 2 removes the server room
A fully digital, self-configuring cloud intercom in a patented, contemporary design. No servers, no routers, no licence fees, and up to 90% of cabling gone.
Interphone Cloud: zero legacy limitations
Our flagship platform, the only cloud intercom designed and made in Singapore, replaces the intercom with a dynamic QR and the phone already in every visitor’s hand. No app, no login, no per-unit hardware.
Four convictions, held for a decade.
Own every layer.
Quality you can promise is quality you control. Because the panel, the platform and the app come from one team, they fit like one product, and when something needs fixing, there’s no one else to blame and no one else to wait for.
Build for year ten, not the demo.
316L marine-grade steel. Vandal-proof keypads rated for ten million presses. Cloud software that improves with updates instead of ageing toward end-of-life. We still repair systems we sold a decade ago.
Simple is a feature.
No app for visitors. No wiring marathons. No server rooms. The most advanced system in the lobby should also be the one nobody needs a manual for.
Local by design.
Data in our Singapore sovereign cloud. PDPA compliant. Nothing sent overseas, no biometrics collected, and support that answers in your time zone, in writing we’re happy to be held to.
From drawing board to your lobby.
Concept & design
Everything begins with your building, its layout, its entrances, its residents. Signage is laser-cut for your estate, never templated.
Manufacture & quality control
Built in-house with industrial-grade components. Every unit is tested rigorously before it ever meets a wall.
Installation & support
Deployed through our network of authorised distributors, with maintenance, upgrades and repairs behind every system, old and new.
We don’t sell devices.
We deliver assurance.
That your residents feel safe, connected and in control, on day one, and on day three thousand. One all-inclusive subscription, priced to your estate, no capital outlay.
Tell us about your building; we’ll propose the system it deserves.