By connecting our ceiling fans and placing them under smart home control, it is possible to deliver a much better user experience and greater comfort in the home. Our approach enables them to also be controlled by a wide range of user interfaces in our smart home. Like many of the devices and appliances in our home though, we are aiming for fully automatic and intelligent control with a zero-touch user experience whenever possible.
We use models for all connected appliances and for all types of connected appliances in our Home Control System and this includes various types of fans. Our technology abstraction this means that any fan added to our home inherits all of the capabilities supported by our models and all those of our wider smart home. Essentially, every connected fan becomes instantly very smart and they can all be controlled by any of the many user interfaces available, providing a great user experience. In some cases our fans are fully automatic and provide a zero-touch user experience.
We currently model binary fans (on/off) and 3-speed fans, which can be set to Low, Medium, High as well as On and Off.
In our conservatory we have a wireless (433Mhz) ceiling fan with integrated fan light under full smart home control and it is primarily a zero-touch user experience. Our @smartest_home occasionally tweets changes of state.
