Sense Smart Home Hub From Silk Labs Begins Kickstarter Campaign

As more of your stuff at home gets smarter by being a part of Internet of Things (IoT), you will soon need a device that helps you control all of those gadgets from one place. Enter the Sense smart home hub, developed by the same fellows who brought you the Mozilla Firefox OS. The Sense smart home hub made by Silk Labs is one of a kind as it not only helps you interact with connected devices but also looks stylish as well. The primary purpose of Sense is to help you control smart lighting systems like Philips Hue, sound systems like Sonos and devices like the Nest Thermostat. If you are asking the question, why should I buy the Sense, my smartphone helps to control all these gadgets as well? Then you should read about the additional features of the Sense in the following paragraphs.


With Sense you no longer have to tap buttons on the corresponding smartphone app, you can use simple hand gestures and voice commands to control all connected devices. With assistance of deep learning systems, the Sense can adapt to your needs with the help of simple interactions. The highlight of Sense is that it can serve as a home security system. It can distinguish people and knows which ones are at home and where. Sense uses computer vision for identifying people and Bluetooth LE to track their distance. It can even detect if you pets are getting antsy. You can access the live video feed being recorded by Sense on your smartphone. Silk Labs assures that this footage is secure by applying end-to-end encryption and a setup where secure keys are exchanged between the smartphone and the device.

On the stylish curved body of Sense, we find a wide angle 1080p camera, IR LEDs, a microphone and a status light. Inside Sense we get an unspecified hexa-core CPU, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. Silk connects with the internet with help of dual-band Wi-Fi and it hooks up to your smartphone with help of Bluetooth LE. Since the team wants more smart devices to connect with Sense they have created a SDK that based on JavaScript which can be used to create Silk apps which interact with Sense. Within a single day, Silk Labs have managed to garner $88,981 against its pledged goal of $100,000 on Kickstarter. You need to pay a minimum of $225 to get your hands on one of these by December 2016.

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