Our Technology

Crownstone’s indoor positioning hardware uses your mere presence and proximity to control lights and devices in the home or office environment. Crownstone also provides indoor positioning to businesses on its hardware-as-a-platform.

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What can Crownstones do for you at home?

Switch

Switch

Switch on lights and devices via the app or at set times.

Dimmer

Dimmer

Set your (LED) lighting to a desired dimming position.

Energy

Energy consumption

View the energy consumption per device in real-time.

Positioning

Indoor positioning

Crownstones react to someone presence or proximity

Twilight

Twilight

Automatically dim the lights when it gets dark outside. This even works with your regular light switch.

Switchcraft

Switchcraft

Your existing light switches will continue to work!

How accurate can indoor positioning be?



Bluetooth Low Energy positioning can be fairly accurate. It all depends on the number of Crownstones you use! See in this video clip below how we move a smartphone in a miniature house from room to room and you see how the picture moves accordingly.

Comparison


The Crownstone is a device with many functions. If only picking one function, it already compares favorably to the competition:

Brand Switches 16A LED dimming Wake-up light Energy monitoring Standby killer Device identification Presence sensor
Crownstone
Fibaro switch
Fibaro dimmer
Philips
Plugwise
Elro
Smappee
Kontakt

Play around!



Get a look and feel by playing around with the Crownstones models here!

Roadmap


The current Crownstone iOS and Android apps have the following functionality. Every couple of weeks a new update is rolled out:

Functionality State Soft­ware
Switch
Instantaneous power measurements
Reacting on close proximity (tap-to-toggle)
Reacting on moderate proximity (presence)
Reacting on room-level indoor positioning
User-controlled upload of data to the cloud
Send commands through the internet
Visualize other users in the app
Scheduler
Dimmer (also LED)
Send a nice message to someone on entering a room
Simultaneous use of ordinary light switch (swichcraft)
Wake-up light
Power consumption history
Integration with Toon
Integration with Alexa
Integration with Google Home
Integration with Home Assistant
Integration with Homey
Device identification
Integration with thermostat radiator valves
Multi-user setup (don’t leave user in the dark)
Personalized user profiles
Arduino Support on the Crownstone
Hub (for centralized collection of energy usage)
In-network positioning (in the Crownstone mesh)
Indoor positioning of wearables

Not only the Crownstone app will be updated. Also the firmware on the Crownstone themselves.