An iPhone to rule them all, Crownstone or how to control your home from your smartphone?

As technology advances we can see how what just 10 years ago it was unthinkable today it is normal, one of the fields in which technology and its incessant hunger advances is home automation, home automation.

Despite great advances, demotics-compatible devices require expensive adapters, applications from various manufacturers, and other sacrifices, however it's not all bad news.

It turns out that a company called DoBots has decided to launch a project that in just two days has raised €40.000 and thanks to which we will be able to take control of our home at a very economical cost and with endless possibilities, all with a small group of smart devices that They will allow you to do 5 things, the 5 pillars on which Crownstone is based.

Crownstone, your home is waiting for you

With just a Crownstone kit our house will be able to recognize when we enter or leave it, thanks to BLE technology our devices can be turned on or off depending on our location, but that is just one of the possibilities that this device provides us. .

Next I will show you the five pillars by which this device is governed:

Monitoring: With this device, our home will be able to monitor the electricity consumption of any device connected to it, in this way we will know what is causing our electricity bill to rise.

Remote control: Thanks to the BLE technology incorporated both in this device with today's smartphones, we can regularly turn these devices on and off without having to press any switch.

If you manage to reach € 500.000 they will compatible with Apple HomeKit, which would give Siri the power to control any aspect of our home without even being in it (with an AppleTV 3 or higher).

Automation: With this device our lights can be turned off when we leave our house or turn on when we return to it. Without a doubt, it will be a point and apart in which we could forget about the famous switches that all homes share today

Intelligence: Thanks to the monitoring of electricity consumption the device is able to recognize which device is connected to it, in this way we do not have to be entering data about the devices in our phone to have them all classified, this will be done automatically.

This makes it possible, for example, that when we leave the house our lights and television are turned off but not our refrigerator or washing machine, the system will intelligently manage which devices should not be turned off even if you are not at home.

Safety: Thanks to these devices we can remotely activate or program lights so that the most curious believe that there is someone at home if we are on vacation and we can even know if we have left something on or if there is any unusual consumption.

A kit for every occasion

DoBots thinks of everyone, it has not limited itself to testing with the United States market but is also launching itself in the European market, that is why we have 3 models that we can buy, which are the following:

ReadyToGo Kit (EU and US)As its name suggests, it is a kit that we can use wherever we go, it is a lifelong power adapter that will add that capacity to any plug to which it is attached, it can be unplugged without problems and be moved without the need for disassemble anything.

As we can see, the adapter will be in charge of filtering the current from the inside to the device that is connected to it, later we can control from our smartphone the various parameters that this device will allow us.

Self-Install Kit, a more advanced installation kit, if you know how to play inside the plugs without fear and safely you can install this small device inside so that Crownstone works in your home in a totally invisible way, this device will filter the current from within, the negative part is Although it looks better aesthetically, it is more complex to relocate it since you have to open the plug every time you want to remove or put it on.

How much would you pay to equip your home with intelligence?

Crownstone is currently in a financing campaign on the Kickstarter portal, to collaborate on the project you can do it from €1, if you want to purchase this type of adapters (which come in packs) you can do so from € 69 for 3 Self-Install Kit, the cheapest price ever seen for a device of these characteristics, without a doubt if your house is small you can have it fully automated for approximately € 100, and by the way save that money on the electricity bill in the following months.

The campaign seeks to raise € 200.000, a figure that I am sure it will reach Since it currently has € 66.000 and still has 42 days left to know if it is financed or not, I recommend taking advantage now since the cheapest "Early Bird" offers will end, this type of campaign takes a lot of run in the last 22 days, but by that time you will have lost the opportunity to take advantage of the offer, and as long as the campaign does not achieve its objective, you will not be charged.

I have already done my bit to help the DoBots team to fulfill their dream, and you, Do you want to automate your home?