Viaroom has announced a new kind of home digital assistant with the goal of truly and adaptively automating a substantial portion of tasks people complete every day. Called Viaroom Home, the device looks similar to some routers and can accomplish a range of IoT-based actions – such as locking a door or turning on the lights – with very little setup required, at all. In fact, Viaroom says that by integrating its Home device into a given household’s network of smart products, users won’t need to do much by way of interacting directly with the smart hub itself. That includes voice commands and smartphone interactions.
To achieve that, the Viaroom Home utilizes a very finely tuned artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning which recognize and record daily activities over the course of 48 hours. That data is said to be securely encrypted and only transferred to and from Viaroom’s own servers with additional layers of security in place. Data includes instances, times, and conditions under which a user locked the doors in their home, turned lights off and on, adjusted the thermostat, opened the blinds, and more. By analyzing patterns in the data, the hub can then begin to automate those actions. Better still, it continues to adapt and learn for as long as it remains a part of the user’s smart home network. So every time a new manual interaction action is taken, it recognizes that and adjusts its pattern to match. The company also says it can go so far as to recognize one-time or holiday-based events so it could feasibly learn when a user begins setting up their smart holiday lighting and then activate those on schedule during subsequent seasons. Each of those actions it performs automatically could potentially save users hours of time spent on mundane household tasks on a monthly basis.
Viaroom also points out that its list of compatible IoT devices is frequently updated, so there aren’t likely to be too many smart home products its Home device won’t interact with. A full list can be found via the company’s website, but currently includes popular products such as Philips Hue and both Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home. Perhaps best of all, this is one IoT device that shouldn’t break the budget since it is only set to retail for around $118 and there are no subscription fees for the services it provides. Meanwhile, pre-orders for the new Viaroom Home will open on the company’s website – accessible via the source link below – on January 30 and sales will start shortly after. The company will also be showing off its new creation at CES 2018 in Las Vegas for the remainder of the week.
