Photo01: The number of fixtures (for example, coolers, curtains, etc.) changes according to the composition of the room, so even if not all rooms are exactly the same, the smart home sensors and controllers are almost the same lineup. ing
In short, lighting, air conditioning/curtains, security (opening/closing sensors and locks) can be intensively managed, and it is a mechanism to automatically maintain a comfortable living environment by combining a thermo -humidity meter.
Although it is a specific equipment, for example, the air conditioner itself is for ordinary housing, but a smart remote control (transmitter for infrared remote control) is arranged (Photo03).
The curtain is a type with a dedicated curtain rail and motor (Photo04).
The entrance was compatible with smart locks (Photo05), and demonstrations such as temperature and humidity sensors (Photo06) and general -purpose switches (Photo07) attached to the wall were held.
By the way, these controls can be managed together from the smartphone's Homelink app (Photo08,09).
There is a video at the top, but this is a video of a watching camera such as a pet, and it is convenient to manage these things together.Naturally, it supports both Android and iOS, and can be used with your smartphone as it is.The first thing that is considered for rental properties is that a QR code that can be set in one shot is prepared (Photo10).
In other words, the lessee of the property finds this paper when you enter the room after the contract is over, so read the QR code with your smartphone and install the app from there, and use the equipment that is installed immediately from the smartphone.It is a mechanism that is possible.By the way, customization can be done after this.Then, when the rental contract is completed and the lessee leaves, the management company will initialize the settings with one touch and prepare for the next lessee.This QR code is also one -time, and the setting itself is said to be unable to operate the lessee before the rental contract expired.
In fact, the device itself is not difficult, and as described later, Homelink itself is not much better than other standards in terms of technical perspectives (or considering it is the same level.I think it's good).Nevertheless, I would like to introduce a little more background that won the contract with the Tokyo building.
According to the company's CEO Susumaya Kawa (Photo11), the company aims to develop Homelink technology in the first place, and it seems that he did not necessarily sell its own products as hardware there.
However, there are quite a few things that were made from "there was no (used product) in the market".For example, the smart remote control of Photo03 and the general -purpose button of Photo07.What the Homelink itself is realized (what is being realized) is like Photo12.Naturally, it is impossible to do this with our own product "only".
For this reason, many vendors made a common Home Automation protocol and worked hard to create friends.OCF, which is the successor to Intel's OIC, IOTITITY and its successor, Qualcomm, Allseen Alliance, Alljoyn, Echonetlite, Google Project Brillo (now Android Things), Apple's Homekit, etc.There are still some standards, but I think it's generally failed.In addition, Z-WAVE is also in this category in a professionalplaetari.There are several reasons, but it is said that it will not spread unless the furniture manufacturer comes out of the product corresponding to it.
Link Japan is remarkable in cooperation with this furniture and equipment manufacturers (Photo13).
In both cases, the fact that there are quite a few large companies in Japan, which are not found in other standards, are not found in other standards.Link Japan's strength is the strength of Link Japan.As a result, the dedicated fixtures are left to the collaborative companies, and the company is dedicated to a general -purpose product, which is not so difficult (but does not exist much in the market).Or in the future, smart plugs, smart switches, smart remote controls, etc. may be supplied from affiliated companies, and the company doesn't seem to be concerned.By the way, the operation was not only smartphones and smart buttons, but also operations via smart speakers (Photo15).
By the way, the Homelink App, for example, a function such as a function such as automatically performing the operation of "now" when it is approached in conjunction with GPS and approaching home, or a general -purpose remote control of the smartphone itself (linked to the smart remote control).There is also a point that can be relieved that it is possible to put in new features one after another by upgrading.
It has already been collaborated with Aihon door monitors, MIWA's smart locks, Rinnai/noritz water heater controllers, etc., and I think that the number of devices that are more affiliated will increase in the future.
To a little technical story, Homelink is compatible with the network itself, and as you can see, it supports multiple connections with Wi-Fi/wired, BLE, and Zigbee (Photo16).
The equipment provided by the company is based on basic ZIGBEE, but the smart remote control is Wi-Fi, and the BLE device is connected through a dedicated GW.The core is called a smart hub, which seems to have a function of some Proxy as well as Zigbee's Gateway.
For some reason, these Smart Home is often based on basic Cloud, and in fact control using Smart Speaker and other ways must be via Cloud. Homelink itself also used some Cloud. The scary thing is Network Down. It was actually possible, and it was said that last year, a large -scale disability occurred on Google, which could no longer use Google Home and no longer use all the devices linked to it. No, if you use a remote control normally, you can do something, but in most cases the remote control is missing, which is a bit of a life and death problem. When I shaked this story to the person in charge, there was an explanation that "Smart hubs remember the contents of communication, so even if they can communicate with smart hubs even in Network Down, they can be operated." For a moment, I imagined something like AWS Iot Greengrass, but it doesn't seem like a smart hub has such a function, so I think it's a simple Proxy or something.
The reason why this area cannot be clearly said is that the Homelink communication protocol itself is proplantari.This is because the physical layer is Zigbee or Wi-Fi/BLE, but what is going on is what it is.However, most of the existing Smart Home standards have advocated Open Standard and gathered friends all the time, and while they do not spread it at all, Link Japan dares to develop protocols and chips with professional plaetari.I feel that the establishment of an ecosystem in the form of bringing it to a company is one answer to the "too late consensus formation" that is common in Open Standard.
By the way, proplaetari means that the API is not published (although it may be open to affiliated companies). I thought that some users were disappointed with this, but I thought that some users were disappointed with IFTTT, but Mr. Chiyasu Kawa said, "I initially supported IFTTT cooperation, but who was it. I didn't use it, so I stopped it because the support cost was wasted. " In particular, the cooperation with Gmail was over in 2019, and the restrictions on free users in the fall of 2020 have stopped using IFTTT. It was listed. Well, in fact, IFTTT setting requires a certain amount of knowledge and the trouble of trying and error, so it is understandable that ordinary users are difficult to benefit. Regarding Matter, it is said that it is a “proceeding”. If the market spreads greatly, I think it's around (but it's unknown how far the Matter stands up in the first place)?
Overseas, there are other standards that already have a certain size market, such as Z-WAVE, but there are few products that have entered the country, so it seems that they are not in the field of view.Rather, Wi-Sun+Echonet Lite for smart power meters may have more needs, but this is likely to be a corresponding neck if the transceiver is not cheaper.
By the way, the company proposes Solution for smart home using Homelink as Elife.According to the proposal for rental businesses and construction companies/real estate companies, the investment of tens of thousands of yen (depending on the composition and contract conditions) as the initial investment (equipment fee), up to 60 % of the occupancy rate in the case of rental.In the case of buying and selling, the contract rate and unit price can be expected to increase.Speaking of this BRILLIA IST Ueno case, it costs about 300,000 yen per room.However, this is not expensive because it includes all the routers and ONUs in addition to smart equipment.In fact, if you check with the previous rental information, the rent on the 7th floor that has been compatible with Elife is set slightly higher than 8F (Photo17).
This is the first time as a Tokyo building, so I set it a little higher and look at the reaction, so I think the price will change again in the future.
Finally, a little spilling story.In the first place, the only reason on the 5th and 7th floors is that this story was brought to Link Japan from the Tokyo building in the first place, but after the interior construction was over, all floors were to be reworked from there.It seems that it wasn't in time.
Why did you need an interior (or rather redone)? One of the answers is Photo04. In short, to use a smart curtain, an outlet is required at a relatively high position near the window, but it does not usually install an outlet in such a place. In addition, an outlet is also needed to install various devices. Normally, it is common to put an outlet at the height of the corner of the room so that it does not get in the way, but in smart home, a higher position requires a large number of outlets. As a result, it was necessary to remove some interiors and redo the wiring, but not very much, but not in time on all floors. The next property, which is scheduled for November, will include such considerations in the design from the beginning. It was a surprising pitfall.