HUAWEI and French manufacturer of weather station and thermostat for smartphone, Netatmo, have joined QIVICON, a crossvendor Smart Home ecosystem that was established by Deutsche Telecom. Both companies aim to develop new Smart Home-compatible terminal devices and control elements leveraging QIVICON's platform.
The QIVICON platform enables manufacturers such as Netatmo to connect their smart devices to the cloud, from which their customers can access a wide range of information collected by these devices. By downloading the relevant QIVICON application on their smartphones, tablets or PCs, Netatmo customers can access these information regardless of their location, enabling them to control these devices remotely. For example, using the QIVICON apps, users of Netatmo Weather Station can see measurements relating to temperature, air humidity, air pressure, sound level and CO2 level. This enables them to remotely determine the quality of the air in a room and the best time to aerate. The QIVICON application also allows customers to set their own programs which will automatically 'control' these end devices based on pre-set conditions/commands.
Haibo Zhang, Key Account President Deutsche Telekom at HUAWEI
We are very much looking forward to the cooperation with the QIVICON Smart Home platform. Our main aim is to make full use of the strengths we share in developing and providing end customer solutions.
Fred Potter, Founder and CEO of Netatmo
We are thrilled that QIVICON will include our Weather Station and our Thermostat for Smartphone into their connected home ecosystem. QIVICON’s platform is at the intersection of two major trends within the technology industry: the Internet of Things and the connected home sector, creating opportunity for like-minded companies to collaborate and bring bigger, smarter innovations to consumers at an accelerated pace.
