Homes are slowly getting smarter, but are still far away from reaching its mass market potential. We now have phones that can help us navigate the world, but does very little inside our four walls. We have cars that will soon be on auto-pilot and wearable tech that make Minority Report look yesterday. Surely our homes should be up next?
Yes, they will – but at the current rate of innovation, no time soon. There is no lack of great technology, and the value proposition should be compelling. So what is stopping adoption? The simple answer is – your wifi router.
The wifi router is the single point of connection between all cool sensors, gadgets and devices that are available for the home. They all need to connect through your wifi to connect to their respective cloud and mobile apps. And yet, there has been almost zero innovation on wifi routers when it comes to enabling the smart home. Innovation for smart homes is naturally app-centric these days. And why shouldn't it be, of course you would want to control your house through your mobile?
The answer is “yes”. And “no”. You want the apps. What you don’t want is a separate app for each device. And a separate cloud login. And a separate connector hub. And a separate protocol. There are great smart things out there today, but the underlying infrastructure is simply not scalable.
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This is why we need the operating system. And why it needs to be on the wifi router. We need to decouple devices from apps. Let device makers make devices. Let developers make apps. Enable open competition and innovation.
In technical terms, the operating system adds an abstraction layer that enables developers to make one app that leverage all connected devices, on any protocol.
The devices are here. The apps are here. The open protocols are here. The smart router OS is the missing link.
We plan to build it.
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