Imagine you have a latest Phillips toaster in your kitchen. Samsung air-conditioner + a Sony plasma TV in living room and a LG cooler in the bedroom. In this case, you’ve to work with 4 different remote controls. This number will increase if you get some more electronic products at your home.
Universal remote gives you an option to dump other controllers, but most of them are ugly. They have too many buttons on them. To know the functionality of every button, you’ll have to spend some time with the controller. A cool gadget called IRBeacon is a good replacement to universal and all other types of remotes.
This gadget is encompassed with LE Bluetooth and IR hardware. It can control all infrared receiver installed electronic appliances.
This gadget takes command from an IRBeacon app, which can be installed on all Bluetooth 4.0 IOS or Android operating system running phones and tablets.
This gadget features glue dots, hence it can be attached to any type of surface. iRBeacom can communicate with computing devices in IoT and mesh networks. It has ability to control appliances from any part of the world. This device is just 6 mm thick. It measures 1 inches in size. IRBeacon’s working range is same as that of Bluetooth i.e 55-60 feet.
This project has been presented to the public on indiegogo. It has managed to raise around 16000 dollars so far. IRBeacon will go for sale online from December 2014 onward. The price of this gadget has not been unveiled, but we can expect it to be within 70 to 100 dollars.
key specs and features of IRBeacon:
- packed with IR and Bluetooth 4.0 LE hardware.
- connects with Android and IOS phones/tablets.
- includes glue dots.
- dimension around 1 x 1 x 0.25 inches.
- decent working range.
- supports all type of home appliances with an IR receiver.
Expected launch date: By December this year.
