Our smart home technology
and
our approach

Choosing the right app

There are now many smart home apps on the market. Sometimes good, sometimes not so good. For this reason, we have taken a close look at user interfaces and operating concepts. To evaluate software, the software quality standards (ISO25010) can be used as a support. For us, the most important criteria for evaluating user interfaces include simplicity, comprehensibility, range of functions and future viability. The first two criteria mentioned reflect the intuitiveness of use. Here, providers differ greatly. Apps with a high range of functions often appear very complex and overloaded. Other apps, on the other hand, lack important functions like push notifications (messages sent from an app) or even have serious security flaws. As a result, you often lose time or nerves when using them. Obviously, this is something to be explicitly avoided.

Future viability is also a criterion that is often overlooked and cannot be found directly in the aforementioned ISO standard. Here we also evaluate less the software itself, but look behind the scenes: Who is the provider? Are future-proof technologies being used? Can we still expect support in the form of updates or support in the next few years?

Homekit goes open source

Since the end of 2019, Apple’s Homekit is open source. For us, this meant that we could adapt our systems to the user interface of the Apple Home app. Instead of our originally planned approach of creating a completely new app, we hereby found a solution that met our requirement. Thus, we channeled our energy into developing an interface to make our systems compatible, not only with Apple, but with the most popular manufacturers. The use of software from well-known manufacturers means that you can use comfort functions at the highest level. One of them, for example, is the voice assistant. Our seamless integration of your home, for example, into the Apple world, has the advantage that you can use Siri as a voice assistant for control. In addition, you can configure your own scenes or add automations super easy and without any help from us.

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no dependencIES

We have created an interface to make the installed technical components of your home usable for the Apple Home App. Our systems use free and standardized protocols to transfer data and are therefore universally applicable.

We believe in choice

Therefore, our systems can also be used with Google Home Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa. We will be happy to go through the advantages and disadvantages of the providers with you, so that you are well informed about the alternatives. So please let us know which system you prefer.