Hey, it's Rose and welcome to Las Vegas CES 2018!
This year I met a lot of awesome people and I saw a lot of exciting products.
And I wanna introduce you to some of those exciting people starting with Joe from Remo+.
Smart doorbells were a definite trend this year at CES and Remo is showcasing three of
their doorbells, including their new slim wired doorbell called RemoBell W. The camera
offers full HD video, a 160-degree viewing angle, and live streaming from anywhere.
W will be available later this year.
But what was more interesting, and is already selling, is DoorCam.
So, we have DoorCam which is our over-the-door smart home security camera.
You just hang it over the door making installation a lot easier, taking ten steps into literally
two.
Uhm, it's powered by three D batteries and the cool thing about this is that if you are
a tenant, if you cannot install devices because you don't wanna drill the walls, this is the
perfect product.
You can just hang it over the door and if you just wanna be damage-free, just take it
off.
How much does this one cost?
This one costs at $199 and will be available at remoplus.co, also on Amazon.
Next stop was a visit with West at the Oomi Booth.
They made two major announcements this year including an integration with the SafeTrek
safety app and options that lower the price tag which currently sits at around $500 for
a starter kit.
I think the number one complaint I heard a couple of years ago when we first covered
you was price.
And I know you guys have some good news for people that are interested in Oomi but maybe
not willing to go all in.
Yes, uhh, so we, we pride ourselves as a, a great way to start in smart home.
And so a lot of people who are starting out they don't want to spend so much money, we
found out.
So we've dropped our price hundreds of dollars.
Uhh, we also have many more, affordable solutions, that are simpler solutions, you
know, just buying a basic package with a few sensors, instead of a full six-piece
starter kit.
And in the future we have a, a smaller hub.
So the original version was the Oomi Cube, which is basically a camera, a hub all in
one.
And then it also came with this tablet, that you can use to connect devices and control
them.
So now the first option is instead of using the tablet, you can use the free mobile app.
If you prefer to swap out the Cube, you guys are launching a new hub that will replace
the Cube camera.
Well, uhh, yes, so then the Cube is basically our gateway plus a lot of sensors, plus the
night vision camera, and microphone, and headphone jack, and all of these things.
Uhm, for users who don't require so much in a hub, we allow you to have the
more simplified 2018 hub which is just a gateway.
And then you can get all the other functionality with our accessories, like our 6-in-1 multi-sensor,
3-in-1s, things like that.
If someone were to choose to use the app over the touchscreen, would they lose any functionality
there?
Uhh, iPhone users will not be able to use the NFC, Near Field Communication function,
because Apple doesn't allow us to use that except for with Apple Pay.
So you'll have to just pair like regular IoT or Bluetooth.
And at that moment, it started to rain indoors.
So, our interview was over and I was off to meet abode.
Alright, we're gonna take a look at one of the products I was most excited to see today
which is the abode Iota.
This is abode's newest camera that's also gonna act as a gateway for their system.
I'm with Chris, CEO, mastermind behind abode.
Can you tell everybody about Iota?
Sure.
What is it?
Yes, so, Iota is, uhh, a new form factor of our, of our current product.
Uhm, we wanted to enhance some of the features in our current product to be able to be sold
across more customers in different environments.
So this is really set up for, you know, a smaller environment where someone wants to have it
out on display to utilize the camera.
Uhm, it has Wi-Fi functionality so you can move it, while the other form factor didn't.
But they both have the same technology around our platform, which is all of the integrations
that we do across, you know, Amazon, the Nest products, and now we're adding HomeKit capability
to this device and our goal is to actually bring HomeKit to our, our other gateway as
well through some of the software that we hope to see coming out from Apple, uhm, this
year.
So, again, it's just, it's not really an upgrade to what we do but it's more of a form factor
for different use cases.
Smaller environments, potentially used in, uhh, cases where you have elderly people you
wanna look after.
It's a simple plug-and-play solution, can be used as an all-in-one device.
So that's kinda the idea behind it.
What protocols do you have built-in?
Wireless protocols.
Yeah, so we have we have Z-Wave built-in, we have Zigbee built-in, we have our own,
uhh, proprietary 433 megahertz protocol, and then we, obviously with HomeKit capability
we'll be able to…
I guess it's not really a protocol but we have that capability now.
Uhm, and then so we have a battery backup, we have a cellular failover with 4G.
Uhm, so it's kind of future-proof with that technology as well.
Can you give us a quick rundown on hardware specs?
Sure!
So, yeah so it has 1080p HD camera, we have a siren, it actually has a motion sensor,
PIR motion sensor built-in, and I think that's it.
It has two-way voice control as well, not control, but two-way voice into the product
so you can listen in and speak back.
Thank you, appreciate it.
Alright.
Hey, y'all!
So we're with Blink now and they are showcasing their Blink video doorbell.
That's right.
That's it!
This is David.
He's a Blink guy.
So tell us about the video doorbell.
Why would someone buy this instead of Ring?
Well so, let's focus on our products.
So it's a standard video doorbell.
Just press the button and you're gonna get an alert on your phone and it's gonna tell
you someone's at your door.
You can open up a live stream and have a two-way conversation so you can appear home wherever
you are in the world and tell that package delivery guy "Put it on the left" or not.
So that's what you're gonna get basically in all video doorbells, but what really set
ours apart are two things.
The first thing is the price.
Like every other Blink camera, there's no contracts so the cloud service is free.
But this camera starts at $99 for existing customers and $129 as a system.
So the cost can't be beat.
The second thing is the ease of installation.
We think it's gonna be one of the easiest cameras to set up.
Again, like all of our Blink cameras it only takes two minutes and if you flip it over
it runs on the two AA batteries for two years just like any other Blink camera.
But also, optionally, you can connect it to your existing home wiring just by taking the
two wires and connecting them and then it'll ring the existing doorbell.
So for our camera it's just gonna be: put in the batteries, stick it on the wall, and
you're ready to go.
So it's got HD video, two-way audio, a built-in motion sensor.
If you want it just to get ring alerts, and you turn the motion detection off, could you
do that or do you have to have both?
No, it'll be so you don't have, you can have both.
And if you just want it to fire off and give you an alert when someone presses the button
you can do that as well.
Will it continue to record video when it detects motion even if you have the alerts turned
off?
That one is a good question, I'll get back on it.
The answer is probably yes, but I'll get back to you on that one.
How much free cloud storage are you giving away with this guy?
So we give away, we call it up to 7200 seconds.
The big thing to know about our cameras is that they record between 5 and 60 seconds
of video, so for the average user, that's about a thousand clips.
Would be easily over a month's worth of video so, and you can do that, there's no, the time
limit for us is up to a year.
When is this guy gonna start shipping?
Uh, sometime in the next few months so keep an eye on our website.
Obviously now keep an eye on Amazon and, uhh, well, we're, we're excited to get it into
the market.
Thank you!
Awesome thank you.