March 3, 2015 at 12:46How the BeeToo Home smart home project won the 2014 iRidium Awards
To support the development of solutions for smart homes, iRidium mobile holds the annual iRidium Awards. Accepting applications for the 2015 award is in full swing, but for now we’ll talk about the winner of the last year’s award : the BeeToo Home project - the smart home management interface developed on the basis of iRidium.
The history of the BeeToo project began at the end of 2012. It began with an accident: the company's founders Alexander Borovsky and Stanislav Buyanov were engaged in the development of corporate web systems, and had no relation to smart homes when one of his friends complained to him about the problems with the “smart home” of his boss.
As it turned out, the previous integrator performed his work rather mediocre: the reliability of automation left much to be desired, constantly there were problems that were fixed for a very long time. And the system itself, installed just three years before that, is already significantly outdated. The scope of the object is impressive: 14 rooms with an area of more than 250 meters and the attached seven rooms with an area of more than 150 meters. From the point of view of the integrator, this is no longer an apartment, but a whole training ground.
The customer wanted to modernize and increase the reliability of the existing smart home control system as much as possible, and to automate the new connected premises. Here in this story iRidium arises. Based on iRidium software and iPads as control panels, Borovsky and Buyanov created their own automation system, not connected with the existing one, and developed a smart home control interface, which became known as BeeToo Home.
Now in this apartment BeeToo controls the light in all rooms, curtains, multimedia, microclimate and remote opening of the front door:
The plans include intercom between rooms, city telephone control and increased security - for example, the connection of emergency monitoring sensors.
Full description of the project on the iRidium website .
The iRidium contest turned out to be a good opportunity to declare oneself as a company using non-standard working methods. Specially for participating in it, BeeToo got confused by creating a beautiful video representing their system in action (the video posted above is an extended version of the winning video itself). The submitted works were evaluated by the iRidium mobile team for the uniqueness and beauty of the interface design, as well as the complexity and uniqueness of the project. BeeToo was the best in both categories.
The competition was pretty strong: from December 17, 2013 to February 28, 2014, 18 applications were received from 10 countries of the world - Russia, Belarus, Brazil, Vietnam, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France and Saudi Arabia. Many users and companies in the automation market followed this contest, and after BeeToo won, they became interested in buying their interface - for a startup, it was a real breakthrough. The guys appreciated the importance of a quality promo of their work.
Now BeeToo has more than ten employees, new customers have appeared, and there has been a sharp dislike for the phrase “smart home”, which, in their opinion, has discredited itself: on the one hand, it is associated with something prohibitively expensive, on the other - many users already they took advantage of the poor-quality work of integrators, who were often more interested in selling expensive equipment than in its correct operation. As a result, while in the West, smart homes are developed primarily for the sake of saving and more efficient spending of resources, then in our country they are more suitable for showing off to friends than for everyday use. Therefore, in BeeToo for "home automation" - as a term without a heavyweight background from past experiences in creating smart homes.
This year they are againwill take part in the contest , promising to present the BeeToo Cinema project - a home theater automation project suitable for simple TVs and full-size systems. Waiting for videos.
Advice from BeeToo to those wishing to take part in the iRidium contest: the description of automation projects is rarely fascinating, therefore it is important to compensate for their boring nature by creating videos of the “Kickstarter” level. Do as for yourself - and everything will turn out.
This year, the acceptance of applications at the request of participants has been extended from February 28 to March 5. Follow the announcements on the iRidium blog , where the results of the contest will be announced in March - and, of course, on the iRidium mobile blog on Giktayms.
The history of the BeeToo project began at the end of 2012. It began with an accident: the company's founders Alexander Borovsky and Stanislav Buyanov were engaged in the development of corporate web systems, and had no relation to smart homes when one of his friends complained to him about the problems with the “smart home” of his boss.
As it turned out, the previous integrator performed his work rather mediocre: the reliability of automation left much to be desired, constantly there were problems that were fixed for a very long time. And the system itself, installed just three years before that, is already significantly outdated. The scope of the object is impressive: 14 rooms with an area of more than 250 meters and the attached seven rooms with an area of more than 150 meters. From the point of view of the integrator, this is no longer an apartment, but a whole training ground.
The customer wanted to modernize and increase the reliability of the existing smart home control system as much as possible, and to automate the new connected premises. Here in this story iRidium arises. Based on iRidium software and iPads as control panels, Borovsky and Buyanov created their own automation system, not connected with the existing one, and developed a smart home control interface, which became known as BeeToo Home.
Now in this apartment BeeToo controls the light in all rooms, curtains, multimedia, microclimate and remote opening of the front door:
The plans include intercom between rooms, city telephone control and increased security - for example, the connection of emergency monitoring sensors.
6 more screenshots of the interface
Full description of the project on the iRidium website .
The iRidium contest turned out to be a good opportunity to declare oneself as a company using non-standard working methods. Specially for participating in it, BeeToo got confused by creating a beautiful video representing their system in action (the video posted above is an extended version of the winning video itself). The submitted works were evaluated by the iRidium mobile team for the uniqueness and beauty of the interface design, as well as the complexity and uniqueness of the project. BeeToo was the best in both categories.
The competition was pretty strong: from December 17, 2013 to February 28, 2014, 18 applications were received from 10 countries of the world - Russia, Belarus, Brazil, Vietnam, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France and Saudi Arabia. Many users and companies in the automation market followed this contest, and after BeeToo won, they became interested in buying their interface - for a startup, it was a real breakthrough. The guys appreciated the importance of a quality promo of their work.
Now BeeToo has more than ten employees, new customers have appeared, and there has been a sharp dislike for the phrase “smart home”, which, in their opinion, has discredited itself: on the one hand, it is associated with something prohibitively expensive, on the other - many users already they took advantage of the poor-quality work of integrators, who were often more interested in selling expensive equipment than in its correct operation. As a result, while in the West, smart homes are developed primarily for the sake of saving and more efficient spending of resources, then in our country they are more suitable for showing off to friends than for everyday use. Therefore, in BeeToo for "home automation" - as a term without a heavyweight background from past experiences in creating smart homes.
This year they are againwill take part in the contest , promising to present the BeeToo Cinema project - a home theater automation project suitable for simple TVs and full-size systems. Waiting for videos.
Advice from BeeToo to those wishing to take part in the iRidium contest: the description of automation projects is rarely fascinating, therefore it is important to compensate for their boring nature by creating videos of the “Kickstarter” level. Do as for yourself - and everything will turn out.
This year, the acceptance of applications at the request of participants has been extended from February 28 to March 5. Follow the announcements on the iRidium blog , where the results of the contest will be announced in March - and, of course, on the iRidium mobile blog on Giktayms.