It listens and speaks on site
Speech transcription and the spoken answer both run on the hub, inside the home. An order it has already learned is carried out without going through any language model.
In development — not on sale yet
The home that listens, answers and learns new tricks
Wavelow IoT brings together a voice hub, microphones and small radio devices — shutters, lights, relays, sensors. You speak, it acts. And when it does not know how, it asks your permission to learn.
Home automation designed to run in your home
The system was born in a real home, for everyday use. It is in service there today; the choices below come from that.
It builds itself
Ask it for something it cannot do: it asks for your agreement, writes the missing module, tests it in a sandbox, then tells you when it is ready. It never touches the software of the devices.
It commands by radio
The devices form a 2.4 GHz mesh network: each one relays its neighbours' messages, and all of them update over the air, with no dismantling.
What the system is made of
Four parts, designed together, from the circuit board to the software.
| Part | Its role |
|---|---|
| The hub | A small computer with a processor dedicated to artificial intelligence. It holds the conversation, keeps the memory of the home, drives the devices and serves the interface. |
| The microphones | A bar of four microphones wired to the hub. The hub uses it to aim at the person speaking and push noise aside. |
| The devices | Small radio boards, one per use. They stay simple: the logic lives in the hub. |
| The application | The interface of the home in the browser, and an Android application, currently being tried, that reaches the home from anywhere through a private network. |
Today's devices
Six boards exist. More will follow.
| Device | What it does |
|---|---|
| Shutter | Motorises a roller shutter and detects the end stop without a limit switch. |
| Light | Drives a colour LED strip: hue, brightness, animations. |
| Relay | Switches on, off or gives a pulse: a socket, a coffee machine, a door strike. |
| Presence | A radar that detects whether a room is occupied. |
| Remote control | Battery powered, with buttons you bind to the actions of your choice. |
| USB key | Plugs into a television or a computer to pass it the hub's orders, for instance “open Spotify on the TV”. Still being tuned. |
Shutter, light, relay, presence and remote control have worked in a first home; the USB key is being tried there. None of these boards is on sale, and their radio security still has to be strengthened before any release.
What stays at home, what leaves it
On the hub
Listening, transcription, speech synthesis, the control of the devices, and the memory of the home — which keeps, on the hub, the text of what is said there.
Reasoning, where you decide
To understand a new request, the hub queries a language model at the address you give it: a machine on your network, or an online service. In the second case, the text of the request leaves the home.
Sound
Of the sound itself, the hub keeps only the last minute, in working memory. A clip is recorded only when it is asked for and named.
What does not exist yet
The system is still being tuned. We would rather say so.
- Wireless microphones, one per room: today the microphones are wired to the hub.
- Other boards for the hub: today it runs on a single model.
- The application on a real phone, then on iPhone, more radio devices, and an offer for homes as well as professionals.
Interested in the project?
Tell us what you would like to control: it steers the next devices.