Controller "Homey" that allows you to operate home appliances and manage them centrally

Controller that enables you to operate any household appliance simply by managing household electrical appliances overflowing in the house, such as televisions, air conditioners, lighting and microwave ovens, without using separate remote controls, and talking to them "Homey(Houmi) "is the cloud funding site'sKickstarterWe are looking for investment in.

Homey, The Living Room - Talk to your home!
http://www.athom.nl/

Homey, The Living Room - Talk to your home! By Athom - Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/athom/homey-the-living-room-talk-to-your-home

What kind of product Homey is, it is understood by seeing the following movie.


Emir Neuson from the Netherlands and Stephan Whitkamp jointly established Athom Company and made Homey's development.


Homey is a device that makes it possible to centrally operate the operation of household electric appliances placed in the house.


It tends to be messy if there are too many remote control such as picture relation, audio relation, lighting etc.


Homey will take over the operation that can be done with this heaping remote control with one unit. For example, the sensor senses that the owner has entered the room and lights on ... ...


It is also possible to operate by voice. When I talk to "Homey, I'd like to see a Star Trek movie ..."


Ask Homey's voice "Do you want to display subtitles?" And operate the equipment according to the answer.


Then, according to the setting, darken the room lighting, close the blind, operate the TV / audio equipment automatically ... ...


It plays the movie in the optimum environment.


In addition, it is also possible to use the application of the smartphone to perform operations from the outside. Stefan, who bought a raw pizza and decided to bake at home, speaks to the smartphone placed on the dashboard "preheating the oven".


Then Homey started preheating the oven.


To prepare for Stephan's return home, we do not have the air conditioner preparation.


As an operation that Homey can do, the following example is cited.

·When coming home: Turn on lighting, arrange comfortable air conditioning with air conditioner, and play back favorite music

·Upon waking up: Open curtains and blinds. While reading the awakening song, read out today 's weather forecast and mail. Automatically control the coffee machine and prepare a cup of morning.

·When leaving home: Advice to let you know that rain is about to come and have an umbrella. When nobody is at home, turn off lights and air conditioners to reduce power consumption. Close the door key of the entrance door.

Homey carries eight kinds of wireless transmitters for remote control operation of various devices in the house. Infrared communication,Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, electronic tags (RFID) Of the 433.92 MHz band transmission / reception unit responsible for communication with the sensor networkZigBee, Weak wireless transmission / reception module "nRF24L01" of 2.4 GHz band is installed.


Depending on the application and type, communication and operation with various devices are enabled.


Homey which can be operated by voice corresponds to four languages ​​of English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and it is possible to correspond to other languages ​​in the future.


A dedicated Android · iOS smartphone application will also be provided.


What inspired me to develop Homey was a device that Mr. Emile was able to manipulate various devices I made.


It is said that he decided to start full-fledged development, receiving the recommendation of commercialization from many friends who saw that device.


When such "Homey" began recruiting investment at Kickstarter of the cloud funding site, it cleared the target amount of 100,000 euros (about 14 million yen) in about one day and it is about 142500 euro ( About 20 million yen) is gathered.

You can get one Homey by 229 euro (about 32,000 yen) investment. For shipping outside the Netherlands, a 20 euro (about 2800 yen) as a shipping fee is required separately.


In addition, in "Geek Edition" of 239 euros (about 33,200 yen), we get homey to 1 and 2 nrf 24 l 01 + transceivers and get SDK which can develop my own application using Arduino It will also be possible.


Also, if you invest in a 999 Euro plan (about 140,000 yen), in addition to being able to earn the earliest early production Homey early, we also get a special benefit of two developers in the Netherlands to dinner for dinner It is also possible. However, it is said that transportation expenses to the site are self-paying. The deadline for investment is Japan time on Friday, June 27, 17:19, and the shipping time is scheduled for April to June 2015.

Homey, The Living Room - Talk to your home! By Athom - Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/athom/homey-the-living-room-talk-to-your-home