Networked RGB Wi-Fi Decorative Touch Lights

 

Universal Smart Home System: Talk to your home

Homey is a universal home automation hub (not to be confused with Homee) currently in crowdfunding. The softball sized device packs a slew of radios for out-of-the-box compatibility with many existing IoT products, and features speech recognition as its primary interface.

Users can talk to Homey directly, or remotely through the app, and Homey will relay commands to devices in the home. The developers are promising an AI-enhanced experience, so if you ask Homey to start playing a movie, it will reach out to smart gadgets in the room to dim the lights, close the blinds, and pause the music streaming from your iPod -- as well as turn on the TV and queue up the film from your media center.

Seven internal radios let Homey communicate with devices over many protocols, including WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, Z-Wave, Near Field Communication, and more. There’s also an infrared LED to control “dumb” devices like older televisions and DVD players. And Homey can connect with your online accounts to access email and calendars, streaming music and video services, and other info. A Raspberry Pi brings it all together, running software written in Javascript.

Sensors deployment in Garden: Solar-Powered WiFi Garden Sensor

Edyn is a solar-powered smart garden monitor. It includes a soil sensor that can track light, humidity, temperature, nutrients, moisture and acidity to give personalized recommendations about what will grow best, what fertilizer to use, and when and how much to water. There’s also a water valve that hooks up to the hose connected to your sprinkler system, or drip system to automatically maintain the right moisture levels without overwatering.

Once planted amongst your plants, the soil probe designed by Yves Béhar's Fuseproject passes a small electrical current through the soil to measure its various properties. Data is streamed over WiFi to the Edyn cloud service (free, at least to Kickstarter backers), where it’s analyzed and compared to database of thousands of plants and their ideal growing conditions. The results are accessible through a mobile app that provides a live snapshot of your garden’s health, and if the moisture is low the water valve will turn on the sprinklers for you.

Both the valve and the probe are designed for outdoor use, which means they are resistant to water, temperature, dirt and fertilizer. Internal lithium-polymer batteries recharge themselves from solar cells, and the devices reduce their power consumption on cloudy days. In response to customer feedback, the designers decided to upgrade the battery to last 7 years before needing to be replaced.