January 25, 2014 at 18:56COOLRF: Pricing and Investment
Recently, we are often asked: "How much is your good?" Or even like this: “Shut up and take my money!”. In our VKontakte community, we have already published a link to a GoogleDocs pricing document. Everything is a bit confusing there, but the necessary numbers are available. Today we publish a more digestible form of our price list, as well as useful information for our potential investors.
A brief introduction to the course for those who first saw our project
We are developing a complete Smart Home system. The “first swallow” of our system is a DIY dimmer. Here are its main features:
If you want to join the discussion of the system features, please read all our previous articles and comments on them. Most likely questions after such familiarization will become much less.
- Work on the 2.4 GHz radio channel (own protocol, without licensing restrictions, or ZigBee implementation based on Atmtel BitCloud)
- Encrypted Connection
- Installation without changing the standard wiring of an ordinary apartment
- Low power consumption
- The familiar appearance of the switches
- The ability to independently expand both hardware and software functionality
- Open source software as well as hardware
If you want to join the discussion of the system features, please read all our previous articles and comments on them. Most likely questions after such familiarization will become much less.
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Pricing
Our goods will be sold in two trim levels - “boxed” (retail) and “designer” (kit). The first complete set is for those who prefer to buy "prepared" and not bother. The second is for those who want to save money and / or practice with a soldering iron. In all configurations for retail, we will have three columns with prices - “from 1 pc.”, “From 5 pcs.” And “from 10 pcs.”
Retail Kits
Boxed kits will include soldered modules in the enclosures. Cases - printed on a 3D printer made of ABS plastic. That is, they are not very beautiful, but they perform their function. It is those that we show in our posts.
Thus, if you want to automate three lamps at home, you just need to order 3x DMMR (Retail) and 1x EGLE PC (Retail). Everything is simple.
Kit kits
If you do not like it when everything is simple, pay attention to our designers. Each kit includes a printed circuit board plus all the necessary details (microcircuits, resistors, pin lines, and so on). Not soldered.
Separately, we decided not to specify printed circuit boards and cases in the price list so as not to complicate the structure. Those who wish to purchase separately will be able to contact electronically individually. The implementation of sets will begin approximately in the second half of February.
Investments
Now we are a fairly valuable resource. Our team has concentrated most of the competencies necessary for the successful development of the project. We are close to the beginning of the sale of our products. Let it be in printed cases, let us all solder at home in the evenings. The main thing is that we developed these modules, many people are ready to buy them today, a much larger crowd of people are closely watching the development of our project and will be ready to buy our modules tomorrow. We have proven that we are able to develop the electronics of our dreams. Next month we will gain experience in the production of small batches and the organization of the first retail sales. There are very few such teams (in the field of hardware) in the domestic market.
We are engaged in the project in a time free from the main work that feeds and feeds us. Attracting an investor can change this moment and it’s great to speed up the implementation of our endless list of plans. Over the past week, we began to look around in search of attracting foreign investment.
Now we are already negotiating with two potential investors. The amount of investment that interests us is from $ 250 thousand, preferably from a profile investor. If you are such and our project has pleased you - contact us through any of the available communication channels. We will be pleased to tell you in detail about our competencies, recommendations and vision for the future development of the project.
