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Sets "smart" light bulbs, significantly extend the capabilities of lighting control and energy saving has emerged from several manufacturers of electrical products. However, all of them "thing in itself", the ordinary lamps in such a system is not installed, know-how hiding inside the "bulbs". If the lamp burns out, you have to shell out for a new one, the price is much higher than the normal.





A very different approach the inventor proposes Supalla Zach (Zach Supalla). He has developed include a wireless communication module of the intermediate adapter, with which you can "add mad" any light bulb.

Zack's father is suffering from hearing damage, so he has to rely on light alarm phone calls, and calls to the door. This was the initial impetus for the work on the invention. Externally it is nothing unusual. Between the lamp and the cartridge is the plain adapter. But only externally.





Inside the adapter hides microbore connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi. What gives? To turn on and off the bulb now on your smartphone or computer, you can specify the required algorithm, and the process will be automated.

In addition to energy savings, the software provides the possibility to arrange a smooth "sunrise" in the room, instead jump up at the sudden call of alarm. You can simulate your presence in the apartment during your visits to holidays or business trips, you can enable and disable the alarm system and other devices, to arrange a festive illumination. Flashing lights is easy to adapt for alarm receiving emails. Surely you can think of and a lot of other possibilities, using software with open source.

Throughout his work on the invention Zack Supalla represented in the network of new prototypes. Over the past year, the name of the device changed with the Switch on Spark. Who is the inventor of "ripe" to bring products to market.

On the website Kickstarter, he announced the beginning of fundraising and hopes to be able to obtain from sponsors $250 thousand. Two weeks after the beginning of the company in the Bank of the project was $76 thousand

For the project page, anyone can try the invention in action. For this we need to connect with a browser to a web camera and send a message to Twitter. Off lamp illuminates.

Start the production of Spark is scheduled for July 2013. It is expected that the device will be available in retail network at the price of $60.

 

will have to fork out for a new one, the price is much higher than the normal.

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