Nervous home owners now have a new way to reduce their urban paranoia levels. The Mydlink Home system lets you monitor your mansion AND switch things on and off in it.
Hot on the heels of the Withings Home, here a slightly dowdier but no less high tech Home: the Mydlink Home from D-Link.
Comprising
of a brace of a security cameras - the tilt-and-pannable Home Monitor
360 and the immobile Home Monitor HD - the self-explanatory Wi-Fi Motion
Sensor, the Home Smart Plug and the Mydlink app, which receives Home
gear alerts and lets you monitor and activate/deactivate electricals in
your home.
Examples suggested by D-Link range from the
sensible - a lamp that turns on via the Smart Plug when motion is
detected by your Home Monitor camera - to the slightly mad - you can
tune in to a Home Monitor camera to see if the iron is still on, and
then deactivate it. Well, so long as you've put every square inch of
your pad under Mydlink surveillance, and plugged your iron into a Smart
Plug socket.
These products follow hot on the heels of
the same sub-brand's Home Music Everywhere streamer. It means D-Link
devices can now theoretically turn on just about everything in your
house, though not, by and large, control things beyond that - that's
where IFTTT will eventually come into its own, with kit springing into
life when it detects it's been turned on.
It's got to
be said, these are notably less attractive than Withings' devices.
Still, the proof is in the using with these things, really, and rest
assured we'll have a review as soon as D-Link comes up with the goods.
Pricing
is as follows: Home Monitor HD £91, Home Monitor 360 £95, Home Smart
Plug £41, Home Wi-Fi Motion Sensor £36.50, Home Music Everywhere $45.50
Source: http://www.t3.com
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