Η company Brilliant aims to turn your home into a smart home by changing only the simple light switches in your rooms.
The solutions you have to date to turn your home into a "smart home", ie a home that will offer comfort, security and at the same time energy management, require you to install internal wiring and a lot of money on appliances, controllers, and microswitches. No one has thought until today that you can electronically gain control over your lighting, but also into other systems of your home, simply by changing the light switches.
Η Brilliant suggests that you change your room's classical lighting switches and put in place mini smart hubs with 5 inch touch screen LCD screen, Wi-Fi, motion-sensing and voice-controlled. These switches, except that they can turn the lights on or off, can also act as a control panel for having you connected to your home, bringing you security, music, lighting and communication all under one control.
Unlike more complex "smart home" connected home systems, Brilliant's makers claim that replacing a light switch requires no new wiring and only takes about five minutes. Then you can simply slide your finger on the touch screen up and down to turn them on or off, or you can find the exact brightness you want through the mode dimming.
Brilliant Control switches also include a camera and a microphone, and thus provide video intercom between multiple units. Monitors can have a personalized background to match the room's decor, and not just be a white switch.
They can connect to Sonos, Nest, Phillips Hue, SmartThings, Ring and other notable "smart home" systems. The central system Brilliant could simplify managing a connected home without having to install a bunch of separate apps on your smartphone.
The Brilliant Control switches are scheduled to come to the stores at the end of this year, with the first 10.000 pre-set units released at the end of the summer.
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