Athom, the leading European maker of privacy-first smart home solutions, will unveil Homey’s two new U.S. smart home products at CES 2022. Unlike the Big Tech giants, Homey is built privacy-first. It doesn’t listen in or sell any customer data, nor does it use personal information to create user profiles or targeted advertisements. It also provides energy usage data to increase each home’s sustainability and decrease its climate impact. · Homey Bridge is an easy-to-use, affordable smart home hub that connects more than 50,000 smart home devices from more than 1,000 brands and features home control, monitoring, automation and energy savings. Embedded with six wireless technologies, Homey Bridge makes it easy for users to connect all of their smart home devices due to its compatibility with Zigbee, Z-Wave Plus, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 433MHz and Infrared. The hardware device retails for $69 and will be available for purchase on the Homey website, Amazon, Best Buy and other big-box retailers. · Homey App allows users to customize and automate their entire smart home experience based on personal habits and preferences. The free app can be used to control smart home devices — either via Homey Bridge or as an app-only solution. The free version controls up to five devices and the premium version enables a household to connect an unlimited number of smart devices and is available for $2.99 per month. Homey comes packed with features — including Flow, Insights and Energy — which were developed over the past seven years for the Homey Pro smart home hub in the European market. · Homey Flow enables users to create a series of automated rules that tie their devices together — independent of brand and technology — and help to run their smart homes most efficiently and conveniently. For example: “Always dim lights in the bedroom when the drapes close” or “Automatically turn the thermostat down, turn off the lights and enable the alarm when I lock the front door.” Flows can also be started using voice assistants, such as Google, Alexa and Siri Shortcuts, and via widgets for mobile and Apple Watch. · Homey Insights gives users the ability to analyze their smart home usage via visual, easy-to-read graphs and charts. For example, users can track trends such as the temperature levels of their homes and thermostat over time, or how much energy their refrigerator uses in summer compared to winter. · Homey Energy allows users to see their home’s energy usage in real-time, so they can make changes to increase their home’s sustainability. For example, a user can see how much energy their washing machine uses on ‘hot’ versus ‘warm’ wash cycles, and which rooms and devices use the most electricity. Built as an open platform, the Homey App Store allows developers and manufacturers to jump in and extend support to more devices and services. The Homey App Store features more than 750 apps, including staff picks and popular apps that can be browsed by category for inspiration.
