Crownstone uses your mere presence and proximity (indoor localization) to control lights and devices in the home or office environment. Crownstone brings a wide range of apps to the smart home. One of these apps disables dangerous devices when adults are not around bringing child safety to the next level. Crownstone provides indoor localization to businesses on its hardware-as-a-platform.
What can the Crownstones do for you at home?
Moreover, it the coming time, it can do more and more:
Scroll down to see if new functions became available recently. And you’ll definitely have to check the scenarios!
Bluetooth Low Energy positioning can be fairly accurate. It all depends on the number of Crownstones you use! See in this below video clip how we move a smartphone in a miniature house from room to room and you see how the picture moves accordingly.
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 |
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Crownstone | |||||||
Fibaro switch | |||||||
Fibaro dimmer | |||||||
Philips | |||||||
Plugwise | |||||||
Elro | |||||||
Smappee | |||||||
Kontakt |
Crownstones are very affordable, check the shop. Already just a LED dimmer can be more costly than buying a state-of-the-art Crownstone with many more functions.
Get a look and feel by playing around with the Crownstones models here!
The Crownstone has been originally developed for a Kickstarter project. We were featured on many European news sites and in general this really kickstarted our business in many ways (being accepted in the Rockstart accelerator for example). Some of the features of the Crownstone you can watch in this Kickstarter promo.
For detailed specifications, see the specification page.
The current Crownstone iOS and Android apps have the following functionality. Every couple of weeks a new update is rolled out:
Functionality | State Software |
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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. A nice example of another company that brings a lot of firmware updates is Fujifilm. Look at this list of impressive updates that are so significant that it feels like you own a completely new camera! We will always have a few features under the radar that hopefully will make you feel the same!