Asus presents its first step in the home automation with the Asus Smart Home System. A comprehensive solution and highly designated for individuals. A lot of good ideas in this solution and especially a big, very big aesthetic work.
It has very little technical information on this new solution at the moment. But it is an important step by Asus in the world of home automation.
The Asus Smart Home System offers a fairly standard configuration with a hub that manages all the elements around it connected wirelessly.
Asus offers elements for monitoring via IP cameras, smoke and CO2 detectors, infrared communication systems connected outlets, a thermostat management, switches and other options yet.
The first thing that strikes with this solution is related to the aesthetics offered by Asus. Not on like it to everyone but a real research work has been done to offer this set of components that have little to do with small enclosures and ugly white plastic that are available in supermarkets.
With colorful touches, round and clean lines with a certain sophistication in search of materials approach. We are far from cheap smoke detector even if the objects are anything but discreet: Chrome, colors, LEDs … It is in the more ceremonial than discretion.
The Asus Smart Home System should be compatible with most current systems open enough to communicate to other machines. With WiFi and Bluetooth components will interact with each other but also with other existing facilities.
An application, the Asus Home App, will address the different equipment. Quite readable interface consisting of icons so as to be quite intuitive. It will focus on safety, energy conservation and services. Programmable, it can respond to simple commands such as “If the light down so close the shutters and turn on the light. “Or” When this switch is on, triggering this series of infrared commands to the living room. »
No price has been disclosed, nor a release date. The subject is still under development and the images above are 3D renderings. It can happen a lot of things by the output of the project. Maybe we have more information in a few months.