Sensibo any conditioner can make "smart"

Sensibo - a small device, developed by a small Israeli company. This device, according to the authors of the project, allows, for example, reduce the temperature of the apartment before, as the host got home from work.

Furthermore, Sensibo helps reduce energy consumption by turning off the air conditioner if the room is unoccupied for a long time. Also, the device allows you to run the air conditioner through the Internet, using your own application.

Appearance and Installation h4>
As can be seen in the photo, Sensibo - miniature device that needs to be fixed on the surface of the air conditioner (fits any model, including the outdoor air conditioners, split-system and everything else).

Sensibo consists of two parts - the base and the mounting of the device. The base is attached to the air conditioner with a special "Velcro". The developers promise that this fastener allows you to attach the device to any type of surface, and then keeps it all "dead».

The system also controls air conditioner consists of two parts: the actual, Sensibo, and a switch that connects the device to the Internet (via Wi-Fi router), plus provides a link with several air conditioning in the house / apartment / office. Provided, however, that for each air conditioner bought your module (there are different kits with different number of control modules).

Immediately it should be said that air conditioning can be controlled, and the old remote control, if there is such a desire. Powered device is "out of the box", its creators have included a standard set of "Console" command, so that the device is compatible with virtually all air-conditioned, as mentioned above.

What's inside? H4>
In the main module contains several sensors including temperature sensor, the determinant of humidity (relative) sensor iBeacon, the detector of the fans inside the air conditioner, light detector, IR receiver (infrared channel and is used to control Sensibo).

The developers have chosen as the main CC2538 MCU, which works on RF 802.15.4 protocol 6LoWPAN. Secondary MCU - Texas Instrument's CC2541 with Bluetooth Low Energy and support iBeacon.

In addition, the developers put in the body and even two batteries CR123A (missing up to three years).

Functionality h4>

Sensibo runs on a pair with a smartphone, which established its own application of the device. Applications created for iOS, Android and even for Pebble.

This application not only allows you to run the air conditioner with a smartphone, as with D / V remote control (this is a minimum), but also takes advantage of the smartphone to determine the current user's activity, its location, proximity to the house and stuff. All this in order to, for example, stronger cool room for a man who came out of the office on a bicycle than for a man who arrived at their air-conditioned cars.

With the help Sensibo user can get from the air conditioner (as already mentioned, any, the main condition - the ability to control the air conditioner model D / V remote control) the following:

Cooling premises on schedule (for example, a man comes home from work, 10 minutes before it had to install a certain temperature in the room);
Automatic switch off the air conditioner when leaving the owner (this option can be controlled needless);
Optimization of temperature and humidity;
Manage conditioned from anywhere;
Ability to adapt the mode of the air conditioner in accordance with the mode of the owner ( ie the device "understands" when people went to work, and when he went to the kitchen to drink tea, for example);
Using the capabilities of your device to determine the proximity of the owner of the house to the desired pre-set temperature threshold;
Determining the degree of contamination of the air conditioner filters;
The definition of weather outside the house, to establish optimum temperature / humidity.
For third-party authors of the project opened with rich API (control sensor device control receiver status determination iBeacon and more).

Price and order h4>
The cost of the device at an early pre-order will be $ 99 (1 control module and connector), 169 USD (2 module and the switch) ... 376 dollars (5 modules and switch). After the release device in mass production the price will be $ 159, $ 239, and the same 376 dollars respectively. Kit for the developer (1 module, 1 switch and API) is worth $ 199.

You can pre-order directly from Developer , or request a notification of a gadget at Medgadgets .

Source: habrahabr.ru/company/medgadgets/blog/229695/