Maker Voice: Why do we have to make smart sockets?

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At present, the smart home is basically two ideas:
1. Home WIFI based to control the home;
2. Through the central controller to control other home, to achieve intelligence.

Central controller usually through Bluetooth, to help users achieve a short distance control, and once the central controller failure, it will affect the home control. On the other hand, the products such as sockets cheap, practical strong, is a prerequisite for the family, more easily acceptable to users.

Since the advent of Belkin WeMo, many intelligent sockets have sprung up in China. Based on home WIFI, these smart sockets can turn into a light smart home entrance and a control center.

Belkin WeMo: The "originator" of intelligent sockets

When it comes to smart sockets, you cannot fail to mention Belkin WeMo. Belkin is mainly dedicated to providing a simple smart home appliances program for the public, through the WeMo system and supporting mobile phone app users can freely control the appliance switch.

On the hardware side, the WeMo system consists of two products, one is the intelligent switches WeMo switch (the high version is WeMo Insight switch), one is the WiFi module motion sensor WeMo Motion. These products can be bought on the official website, the price between 49-59 dollars.

WeMo switch plug directly into the socket can be used. Users can remotely control electrical appliances by using apps on their phones, and they can also look at the status of electrical appliances and power consumption. High-Release Insight switch supports IFTTT, which allows users to customize certain execution conditions and execution behavior.

WeMo Motion is a dynamic monitoring device that needs to be used with WeMo switch. When you get home, for example, WeMo motion detects that the door action will automatically perform some of the actions you set, such as turning on the lights and turning on the air-conditioner.

Pure Power monitoring function is not meaningful, users even know which equipment power consumption is high, can only helpless. For example, even if the power consumption in the air conditioner, summer heat estimate few people will save electricity to turn off the air-conditioning. Belkin WeMo The biggest bright spot is actually the IFTTT function +wemomotion automatic monitoring combination, the user does not need to use the brain to think the operation, the preliminary enjoyment to the intelligent home brings the convenience.

Push the intelligent socket, a socket to make the traditional appliances become intelligent

If you think the price of WeMo is slightly more expensive, you can consider the Plugaway. Plugaway Intelligent Socket is previously in the Kickstarter of a product, is a smart home company Torrap under a product, the price of 30 Australian dollars, prices or WeMo have advantages.

Plugaway Intelligent sockets can be connected with Wi-Fi, plug in the desired control of the electrical appliances, users can directly through the mobile phone app to control its switch (can be timed), at the same time know the electricity situation. LED Smart bulbs are similar to lifxled, users can control their switches through the app, adjust the brightness of the bulb.

Zuli: Intelligent sockets based on ibeacon

Starting with WeMo, smart sockets are basically tedious, making a WiFi based product. The Zuli team made a smart socket based on ibeacon, and the Kickstarter was successful. Zuli with WeMo or domestic intelligent socket products in the function is very similar, app switch, timing settings, energy management.

Zuli has two obvious advantages: one is the use of Low-power Bluetooth, without external network access, low power consumption; the second is to automatically sense the user, the ibeacon is accurate to perceive the position of the user's mobile phone, such as the user close to the socket, lamp automatically open. WeMo socket with motion sensor can also achieve this function, but zuli only one plug on it. The price of this socket is also close to WeMo, at around 40 dollars.

Parceone: Self-learning Intelligent energy-saving socket

It just mentioned that the simple power data monitoring is not significant, but does not mean that the data monitoring this matter should not be done. It is important to monitor what you can do.

Parceone The biggest bright spot is to measure the electricity consumption of home appliances at the same time, help you out a copy of electricity report, tell you how to save electricity. Parceone through the wireless network connection to the service System Cloud (Parcecloud), analyzes the user to use the electric energy behavior, the supporting software will form the electronic report, enables the user to understand own electricity way, and learns how saves electricity.

Parceone not only records, but also learns. Use it for a long time, and it will record your electricity habits and daily routines. When the product is "accustomed" to the user's life, it will alert the user when necessary to turn off certain appliances: Of course you can remotely control these sockets only.

However, as a giant lazy person, I think that if the parceone can be more intelligent more than better, for example, after the electricity monitoring, automatically shut down the power of large and unwanted appliances.