Sensors

Smarthome platforms (both the real ones and the fundraising mockups) keep springing like mushrooms and still (!) most of them are focused on using a phone or a similar touchscreen device to control the "smart" environment. Sorry, fancy remote control is not smart at all. It is just this: remote control.

Smart is something more. Something much more. Much more difficult. Scott Jenson argues home automation is an EasyHard problem and I do agree. Even the simplest rules, like operating a water valve, are not that straightforward. Rules handling lights in a bedroom are much more complicated and require more sensors and also much more sophisticated engine processing them. I've been playing with this very issue for three years now in my home and the result is almost acceptable now.

But before we get to the rules engines, we need to arrange the inputs signals for them. This means sensors, many of them. Motion, presence, gesture, temperature, humidity, air quality, ambient light. Show me one platform that has them in abundance. None today.

At Silvair, we believe sensors are the first step to the contextual environment. Environment that cares about the experience of users living within. Smartphone is not the UI for a smart home. The UI should be the home itself, users immersed in it completely, using various smart / connected objects as UI controls. A smart home is like a giant app we live in. Sensors are the connection points between people and this app.

This is why we've designed the Silvair Control as a platform. The original concept device is packed with many sensors. Being a platform, it can be scaled up or down, creating variety of derivative devices. Come and join us to see what is possible!