A project by some former Mozilla team members around an an intelligent secure Hub for smart homes launched on Kickstarter has managed to get 100K in one day since it was launched, setting in the process a record of sorts.
Called Sense, it is powered by new platform for connected devices, Silk. Sense can detect your presence, recognise your voice and gestures, learn users preferences, and choreograph your connected devices to respond to users appropriately.
In fact, Sense is the first product running Silk, a platform for connected devices that utilises local processing and deep learning to bring a new age of responsiveness to the connected devices, claim the startup.
As the eyes, ears, and brains of the home, Sense can better take into account context, people, places, time, objects, motion, gestures, audio and more, all while keeping your personal data safe at home, according to the description put up on Kickstarter.
Here are the other things you can do with Sense:
When you are at home
- Connects with smart home devices – Sense works with a wide range of connected devices, including lighting solutions such as Philips Hue and LIFX, sound systems including Sonos, home systems like the Nest thermostat, and many more to come…
- Interact through voice and gestures – Sense uses powerful onboard processing to support simple voice and gesture interaction
- Learns and adapts – Sense recognises patterns and adapts to your needs through simple interactions. No programming, no setup, no nonsense.
When you are away
- Know who’s home – Sense can distinguish people apart and can detect who is home at all times. Using computer vision for facial recognition and Bluetooth LE for proximity, Sense is always aware of who is home
- Keep tabs on your pet – Sense can detect animals from humans and can keep track of their movements and routines
- Get meaningful notifications – Sense isn’t triggered by simple motion, light changes, or even pets — it’s triggered by people, events and relevant context. Sense considers who, what, and when in order to send you more thoughtful notifications
- See your home, securely – Sense brings a secure remote feed for recorded and live video of your home. With our secure setup and hardware based encryption, only trusted smartphones can access your video remotely
Setup and security
One-touch secure setup, setting up Sense is said to be easy. Users can just plug it in, launch the app, and tap Sense with their smartphones. Within a few seconds, Sense will be up and running and paired with your handset. Your video will be fully encrypted for your eyes only.
The device will be ready to be shipped anywhere in the world by the end of this year.
Image Credit: Kickstarter/Sense