A home automation revolutionary project developed by CEFRIEL connects all digital appliances already available in our houses

CEFRIEL carried out a project integrating all the digital devices already existing in our houses and controlling them by a single control unit.

Alessandro Corrente, responsible for the Digital Home initiatives at CEFRIEL, tells us: "The Digital Home project is based on a software able to talkwith all
digital devices through wireless connections, without any need to change the device or to have a specific wiring.

White goods, kitchen hoods, air conditioning systems, lighting, digital TV sets, fixed and mobile phones, health
and wellness appliances, all digital devices can be integrated in the Digital Home.

The project demonstration, that can be seen at CEFRIEL premises, includes many products already on the market from Microsoft, Indesit, Artemide, Faber, Aethra and Hantarex".

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They share with CEFRIEL a great passion for innovation and agree on the project providing all the necessary products and tools to develop a revolutionary digital home.

Mr. Corrente pointed out: "We have been wondering why home automation is not yet widely spread. Mainly for two reasons: the need of putting a specific wiring into the house, and the use of proprietary communication standards.

This approach cannot always be feasible: we demonstrated that a software solution and the wireless communication can easily integrate all home appliances acting like an universal translator. It doesn't matter
about the digital language of a washing-machine or a fitness bike or an automatic irrigation system: everything can be integrated in the Digital Home".

The user's benefits

The user can always control many integrated devices without learning the working instructions of the single device.

Turn-on, turn-off, set-up commands, all of them will be similar and working through a single control unit or by voice commands. As a result, the Digital Home will be very easy to use and it will be possible, for example, to set up some different user scenarios, activating the home systems depending on day time, user, situation (such as, for instance, "I am going out, close everything!" or "I am at home, turn on.").

The solution designed by CEFRIEL also allows to manually operate a single appliance: this for people who like to control personally the devices or do not like "too" innovative solutions.