Things I’ve built
SmartThings comes to Aeotec As the press release reads through an agreement with Samsung, Aeotec is launching Aeotec Smart Home Hub and taking over the sale and production of SmartThings hardware f...
I've already help ship the smallest, safety European smart plug on the market. Today it's the same story but for the North American market. Engineered for North American users of Z-Wave, Smart Swit...
A new product out today within the illumino brand of smart switches I'm developing: the illumino Dimmer Switch. This one is engineered for the USA market. Fun fact: over a decade ago, I created the...
The first generation multi-sensor I co-invented, MultiSensor 6, 'enjoys' a reasonably limited rotation of around 90º. That partially hampers its field of view - it's easy to overcome but isn't aest...
Battery-powered smart switches that look like regular wall switches typically have a terrible UX. Studying just about every brand of significance out there led my co-inventor, Eric, and I to the Wa...
My first patent for an IoT gateway awarded to the first Z-Wave 700 series gateway to get certified. This can be sold to market with a SAAS or HAAS model. I was particularly happy with the rules eng...
A second utility patent for the technology stack built into Z-Wave's MultiSensor 7 was awarded today. A lot of hard work went into bringing a new version of this best-seller to market so it's great...
When I first came on board at Aeotec, every device was huge. When I asked engineers why that was the response was "why not?". Years of market research and minification work with the R&D team coales...
Exploring the use case for the product was really insightful and a lot of fun. Environmental / HVAC management is one of the biggest sales cases within IoT; intelligent thermostats are in heavy dem...
Tying in to March's patent for a doorbell button patent, a fresh utility patent for co-inventing a IoT siren was awarded today. We engineered this unit to be bi-functional with it being able to wor...
MultiSensor 6 was the first product I fully designed for Aeotec. It rapidly became a best-seller, indeed the best-selling smart motion sensor within the Z-Wave spectrum. So many learning lessons ca...
This is the first product engineered with the new industrial design language I developed for Aeotec. Softer edges, matte finish, and proudly displaying the Aeotec logo after year's of building up t...
IoT chips are expensive. In working to drive down costs around multi-part products, such as a smart doorbell with its speaker and button combination, we engineered Aeotec's Doorbell stack to utilis...
MultiSensor 6 and 7 were such runaway success for Aeotec that creating a simpler, 3 in 1, model was such a given. That's shipped under the TriSensor moniker. An older product, it uses Z-Wave 500 se...
Water Sensor 7 is definitely a product of COVID. Its R&D was handled entirely remotely with engineers dispersed through China, Germany, and Russia. Industrial design was handled between China and I...
Despite having what has become a standard form factor, engineering Aeotec Smart Switch 7 was tricky. While other smart plugs can be this small, most handling 15 amps of load simply don't have the r...
Z-Stick 7, a gateway building tool using Z-Wave 700 series, has just received its utility patent. Over the past few years, Aeotec has shipped over 100,000 such gateway tools that I've co-invented.
Smart Boost Timer Switch, a Z-Wave based smart boiler controller designed for Accenture and Electric Ireland, has just been awarded its first utility patent. Co-invented by myself, Tommy Sappal, an...