Roost next year will launch the Internet battery with sensors

The future is the world of IoT. Gartner expects the global IoT to reach 26 billion by 2020, and Cisco's outlook is more optimistic, predicting that the 2020 figure will reach 50 billion, and even that 1.5 trillion entities across the planet have the potential to connect to the Internet. If these devices are new, it is not a problem to have the internet of things, but what about the old equipment, facilities and appliances? How do you make this huge group of people feel capable of providing remote?

For example, the family originally installed a traditional smoke sensor. One day when the owner out of the smoke sensors to issue alarms, how to do, the owner of the outside is obviously inaudible. And he does not want to change to have the thing networking function but also expensive nest Protect, how to do? Roost, a start-up firm based in California, thought of a solution.

The company has designed a 9-volt lithium battery that is the same size as a typical smoke sensor. The difference is that the lithium battery has a Wi-Fi feature and a sound sensor and a voltage monitor that lasts 5 years. Once the smoke sensor sends out an alarm message, the battery passes the alarm message through Wi-Fi to the app on the smartphone, which is set up in advance, give each battery a name, so that the user knows which battery is the alarm, for example, "living room smoke Sensor", "bedroom smoke sensor So that the remote users know what happened. Similarly, once the voltage monitor detects that the battery is running out of power, the battery also prompts the user. With such a battery of networked and inductive capabilities, traditional smoke sensors have become a networking capability.

Such a battery, priced at 25 to 35 dollars, is expected to be launched in the second quarter of next year. For the old users who have been installed by smoke sensors, the solution to the 129-dollar nest smoke detector protect,roost is clearly cheaper and more convenient.

Roost's approach is a good way to tap into traditional existing markets-that is, by revamping some of the replaceable public modules of existing devices to achieve the networking capabilities of these devices. Roost has wisely chosen the common replaceable component of the battery, simply by revamping the battery in an integrated process, and then embedding network components and various perceptual capabilities, allowing a large number of existing devices to have networking capabilities and intelligence.

In a word, this is equivalent to being intelligent in some parts of the internet of things, partly stupid. But the battery is clearly not smart enough, because it can only control their own power equipment, carefully calculated, the home will have to change a lot of batteries. Ideally, the family would only need an assistant with a variety of sensory and networking skills, and it could be like a person at home sensing a variety of information, such as which house sent out what kind of alarm information, and then passed to the remote owner. But on this day, the basic sense of the machine is no different from the human.