Silk Labs' Sense has a camera and network abilities to see who's in a room or house and automate actions like tuing on lights.
Silk LabsComputing smarts are spreading to just about anything with a power cord or battery. Just one problem: most devices aren't actually smart.
With a burgeoning trend called the Inteet of Things, the tech world is trying to coect everything in your life, but today it's an uncoordinated jumble of products. Startup Silk Labs believes it can bring better brains.
"We're trying to make your house as smart as your smartphone," said Chief Executive Andreas Gal, who left his chief technology officer job at Firefox maker Mozilla in 2015 to co-found the company.
In conjunction with the Mobile World Congress tech show that begins next week in Barcelona, Spain, the San Mateo, Califoia-based startup is showing off its first product, a Wi-Fi-coected gadget called the Sense that notices when you enter a room and initiates actions like tuing on lights and music. The Sense is designed to provide a smart-home network's central coordination.
Silk Labs' Sense can slide up and down its wooden mount to best position its camera to monitor a room.
Silk LabsAs door locks, light bulbs, thermostats, smoke detectors, refrigerators and power meters get computer brains and network coections, our electronic world is becoming almost alive. Once it matures, your music could pause when mom calls, your garage door could open when you pull into the driveway, your door could unlock for an authorized package and deliveryman.
"The Inteet now senses, thinks and acts," said computer security expert Bruce Schneier in a February blog post. "You can think of the sensors as the eyes and ears of the Inteet, the actuators as the hands and feet of the Inteet, and the stuff in the middle as the brain."
Silk Labs' Sense, for sale through Kickstarter with a starting cost of $225, comes with a camera to identify who's in a room and a Bluetooth network to help detect if you've left the house. It isn't geared for the general public, though. Instead, it's for developers and tech types who want to try the technology and hook it up to more household devices.
Fostering those coections to other devices will be crucial to Silk's success -- but it's also an area where developers already have an overabundance of options. Other efforts to get smart-home devices to cooperate include Apple's HomeKit project, Google's Weave, the Open Intercoect Consortium backed by Intel and Samsung, and the AllSeen Alliance whose members include Microsoft, Philips, Sony, LG Electronics and Canon.
Silk Labs will be able to use some of those other technologies to automate smart-home actions. The company eventually hopes to profit not by selling devices like the Sense, but by offering services that work on products coected to a Silk Labs fabric. That could include alerts that your ailing dishwasher needs a fix before a complete breakdown or video sent to your phone when a stranger show up in your house.
"A house needs not only sensors, but also a brain," Gal said.
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