New Truly Open Smart Home Central funding on Kickstarter

Everyone is speaking about smart homes. Almost every day, companies bring new devices to the market or improve the possibilities of existing devices. Alexa, Google Home and Apple Siri promise a great future where everyone can control their smart devices conveniently by just telling them what to do. However, once you start to build your own smart home, you will quickly find out the truth. Many vendors provide cool solutions, but it's difficult to get them to work with the solutions of other vendors. A multitude of incompatible standards and communication protocols makes it difficult to make the right decision – or even find out what the right decision could be in the long term.

A small startup company from Germany has now stepped up to provide a solution and has just launched it on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. It's based on an open source software that has been created by an active ingenious community and is aimed at providing no less than the smart home central for all smart devices. It bridges the different standards and protocols to allow any devices to work together seamlessly, the limit only being the user's requirements. However, setting up this open source solution on your own requests that you have quite some technical know-how which not everyone can – or wants to – invest. That's where OMNI Q comes in.

Flexibility combined with elegance

OMNI Q is a nifty smart home central created by the startup company Dancing Bee in Germany's Southwest. It's designed in a way that it can be placed anywhere in the home and look good there. And it comes fully equipped with a pre-installed and pre-configured open source solution. More radio standards can be added by simply plugging in appropriate USB sticks into the slots hidden under its elegant lid. The aim is to give the freedom of choice to the users to use just the devices they want, without having to go through the tedious task of compatibility checks. "OMNI Q combines the advantage of a truly open software basis with an attractively designed device that comes ready to use", Metin Savignano, CEO of the startup explains. "In a nutshell, this means OMNI Q provides the user with the best of each of these approaches."

Now on Kickstarter

OMNI Q is now on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to pre-finance its production. "We see ourselves as a kind of catalyst", Metin Savignano enthusiastically carries out. "We want to bring this crowd-based solution to a greater crowd, and we are asking the crowd on Kickstarter to pre-finance the realization of this idea. It's not only a great product idea, it's also a bit of a revolutionary approach. We are very excited by this concept."

This project is definitely worth a look. Check it out on Kickstarter: https://kck.st/2CCyhjZ

The idea originally started to grow when Metin Savignano and Andreas Hirsch – both experienced software engineers – repeatedly talked about the challenges of setting up a smart home they had faced and the ideas both had started to develop to improve this situation. They both saw the promising future of on an open source solution, but they also were aware that, in order for it to become widely used, an improved overall user experience would be required.

They also wanted to produce an appropriate hardware that would provide simplicity and ease to the user. With the new challenge of designing and producing hardware, Timothy Losper joined in, bringing his experience in 3D design and the contacts he had established earlier with hardware manufacturers.

Since then, a working prototype of OMNI Q has been completed, and they have founded the Dancing Bee GmbH as the company that would ask the Kickstarter crowd to support their idea, and to pre-finance the production costs. Together they want to work towards a truly open solution that will benefit its users through great flexibility and freedom of choice.

Metin Savignano
Dancing Bee GmbH
Koenigsallee 43
71638 Ludwigsburg
Germany

Full media kit on https://omni-q.net/mediakit.html

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